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LUNATIC ASYLUMS OF BENGAL.
TABLE IX.
Statement showing Sickness and Mortality in the Jails near which the Asylums are situated.
1
Anæmia and debility ...
Cholera
...
...
...
Diarrhœa and dysentery
Fevers
...
...
...
Pneumonia
...
...
Phthisis
...
...
Other diseases ... ...
Total ...
Daily average strength
Daily average sick ...
PRESIDENCY
JAIL.
1893.
Total treated.
2
4
1
130
191
8
20
194
548
Died.
3
...
...
2
2
...
8
3
15
1,288.08
31.69
1894.
Total treated.
4
8
2
320
160
14
27
380
911
Died.
5
...
1
10
1
4
4
15
35
1,237.85
44.00
ALIPORE JAIL.
1893.
Total treated.
6
22
2
451
555
25
23
1,072
2,150
Died.
7
...
2
10
4
5
9
10
40
1,770.92
83.55
1894.
Total treated.
8
24
3
430
507
73
26
926
2,079
Died.
9
1
2
8
2
18
14
19
64
1,719.87
74.09
Dacca Jail.
1893.
Total treated.
10
13
3
519
530
8
2
339
1,414
Died.
11
...
3
15
...
5 2
6
31
1,164.98
57.17
1894.
Total treated.
12
178
3
519
389
20
6
247
1,362
Died.
13
18
3
22
...
3
4
11
61
1,124.36
68.93
PATNA JAIL.
1893.
Total treated.
14
18
21
150
205
5
1
152
552
Died.
15
1
5
3
...
1
1
2
13
329.22
15.02
1894.
Total treated.
16
14
2
219
203
2
...
135
575
Died.
17
...
1
11 1
...
...
1
14
307.35
16.54
CUTTACK
JAIL.
1893.
Total treated.
18
1
...
80
92
2
...
105
280
Died.
19
1
...
2
...
...
...
2
5
279.37
5.96
1894.
Total treated.
20
3
1
43
92
1
1
41
182
Died.
21
...
1
3
2
...
1
1
8
279.86
4.56
BERHAMPORE
JAIL.
1893.
Total treated.
22
14
1
70
117
4
1
151
358
Died.
23
...
1
...
...
...
...
3
4
232.74
9.73
1894.
Total treated.
24
6
1
121
180
3
...
176
487
Died.
25
...
...
1
...
...
...
1
2
238.76
13.94
How far the figures in table VIII are accurate I will not venture to
discuss. The increased death-rate registered in Calcutta seems mainly due
to greater prevalence of cholera and increased fatality of fever, the decrease at
Dacca to diminished prevalence of the former; but the variations elsewhere are
great, and it is difficult to believe that there was an increase in the death-rate
of Cuttack of nearly 10 per mille. The returns from the jails are of course
absolutely accurate, and these seem to show that 1894 was less healthy than
1893. We may consider therefore that the health of the lunatics has been very
good on the whole.
15. The total Mortality—Seventy-five, equal to 8.19 per cent. of average
strength, against 77, equal to 8.26 per cent. in 1893. The figures for each
asylum are as under—
Table X.
Dullunda ...
Dacca ...
Patna ...
Cuttack ...
Berhampore
...
Total ...
1893.
Deaths.
21
20
16
...
20
77
Percent-
age on
daily aver-
age strength.
8.49
8.51
7.04
9.28
8.26
1894.
Deaths.
16
21
21
1
16
75
Percent-
age on
daily aver-
age strength.
7.17
8.72
9.41
5.26
7.63
8.19
Dullunda had 16 deaths against 21, 3 from tubercle, 2 each from cholera,
epilepsy, and heart disease, and 1 each from pyæmia, old age, meningitis,
pneumonia, diarrhœa, cirrhosis of liver, and Bright's disease.
Dacca had 21 against 20, 7 being from tubercle, 4 from dysentery, 3 old
age, 2 anæmia, and 1 each from remittent fever, apoplexy, diarrhœa, liver
disease, and peritonitis.
Patna had 21 against 16; 6 were due to dysentery, 3 tubercle, 2 to
pneumonia, 3 to debility, old age, or anæmia, and 1 each to remittent fever,
paralysis, epilepsy, heart disease, hæmorrhage from bowels, diarrhœa, and spleen
disease. Many of the patients were very old and had been years in the asylum.
Cuttack had a death from abscess—the first in three years.
Berhampore had 16 deaths as compared with 20 in 1893, and 6 were due
to tubercle, 4 to old age, 2 to diarrhœa, and 1 each to cancer, anæmia,
pneumonia, and peritonitis.