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EXPENDITURE.
1. Establishment proper
...
...
2. Superintendence ... ... ... ...
3. Diet
...
...
...
...
4. Clothing and bedding
...
...
6. Bazar medicines
...
...
...
6. Contingencies proper
...
...
7. Contingencies of manufacture ...
8. Repairs and maintenance ...
9. Rates and taxes on asylum
buildings.
Total ...
10. Printed forms and stationery...
11. English medicines
...
...
12. Public Works
...
...
...
GRAND TOTAL ...
Received from Treasury on
account of—
1891.
Rs.
16,480
15,946
20,583
999
64
6,148
A.
2
14
1
5
8
4
P.
7
7
5
9
1
2
1,224
4,358
65,805
5
10
3
2
0
9
......
......
......
......
1892.
Rs.
16,230
15,936
22,139
785
81
5,613
A.
11
12
8
14
14
3
P.
3
10
2
6
9
3
......
281
3,917
64,986
13
0
14
6
0
3
......
......
......
......
Received from Manufacture
Department on account of—
1891.
Rs. A. P.
......
......
14,010
1,963
6
703
2
230
13
6
8
1
12
14
2
3
0
8
0
9
......
16,917 7 10
......
......
......
......
1892.
Rs. A. P.
......
......
15,330
1,786
5
789
2
171
5
8
10
4
1
1
4
6
0
7
5
0
......
18,084 14 10
......
......
......
......
1891.
Rs.
16,480
15,946
34,593
2,962
71
6,851
2
1,455
4,358
A.
2
14
14
12
0
5
12
3
10
P.
7
7
7
0
1
10
0
11
0
80
433
11,544
94,780
4
4
7
12
9
4
5
1
1892.
Rs.
16,230
15,936
37,469
2,572
87
6,402
2
452
3,917
A.
11
12
13
7
8
7
1
14
0
P.
3
10
6
0
9
10
5
6
0
76
608
2,536
86,293
3
5
10
0
8
4
0
1
The only item of expenditure calling for special notice is "diet.
Under this head the increase, which took place in all the asylums except Cuttack,
where the number of inmates was unusually low, amounted to Rs. 2,875-4-11,
and was due to the high prices that prevailed in 1892. The following
statement compares the average cost of each lunatic on account of diet
during the years 1891 and 1892 :—
Dullunda ... ...
Dacca
...
...
Patna
...
...
Cuttack ... ...
Berhampore
...
...
1891.
Rs.
37
36
31
27
33
A.
14
13
10
15
3
P.
1
2
0
1
5
1892.
Rs
42
40
34
36
37
. A.
13
13
7
6
12
P.
2
2
8
5
3
The average cost of each lunatic, calculated on the actual expenditure
incurred, was Rs. 67-10-5 against Rs. 65-15-7 in 1891.
10. During the year, the Government of India suggested that the
practicability of establishing dairy farms in connection with the Lunatic
Asylums in Bengal might be taken into consideration. At Dallanda a dairy has
been in successful operation since 1889, and steps are now being taken to extend
it. The only other asylum with a dairy attached to it is the Dacca Asylum.
The Superintendent of the Patna Asylum having reported that want of space
will not admit of a dairy being opened there, and that a dairy farm is not likely
to be profitable, owing to the cheap rate at which milk sells in the bazaar,
the project of establishing a dairy in connection with that asylum will be
abandoned. Efforts will be made to start this experiment in the remaining
asylums, the result of which should be described in some detail in future
reports.
11. The total population of the European Lunatic Asylum at Bhawanipur
rose from 50 in 1891 to 61 during the year under review. Of this number 35
were under detention on the 1st January 1892, and 26 were subsequently
admitted, including nine criminal lunatics. During the year 17 patients
were discharged cured, one was despatched to Europe under the Merchant
Shipping Act, four were transferred to the care of friends, one was deported
to Europe as still insane, one was discharged, and two died, leaving 35
under detention at the close of the year, the same number as at the close of
the previous year. There was no want of accommodation either in the male or
in the female wards, and the health of the patients was good throughout the
year. There was one accident, but no case of injury or escape. The expendi-
ture amounted to Rs. 22,831 against Rs. 25,370 in 1891, the decrease of
Rs, 2,539 occurring under the heads of Public Works and Rates and taxes.
12. In paragraph 8 of the Resolution on the report for 1891, it was stated
that the question of abolishing the Bhawanipur Asylum and transferring the
patients to the Dallanda Asylum had been referred to a Special Committee. This
Committee was unable to suggest any practicable and economical arrangement
and the proposal was therefore abandoned, leaving the asylums to be managed
as at present.