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for which no separate account is kept) amounted to Rs. 3,06,139 as compared
with an average of Rs. 2,44,954 for the preceding triennium, the receipts for
individual years having been Rs. 2,34,010 in 1918. Rs. 3,09,563 in 1919 and
Rs. 3,74,846 in 1920.
The average income from fees of paying patients declined from Rs. 17,377
in 1915-17 to Rs. 9,413 in the triennium under review, as the Bhawanipur
Lunatic Asylum, from which the largest income from fees used to be derived,
was closed after 8½ months' working, and the receipts of the temporary
Observation Ward opened in that Asylum under this head amounted to Rs. 218
and Rs. 237 only in the last 2 years against Rs. 12,358 realised from the
paying patients of the Bhawanipur Lunatic Asylum in 8½ months in 1918.
There was a striking increase in the receipts of the Berhampore Lunatic
Asylum from this source in 1919, viz., from Rs. 3,679 in 1918 to Rs. 7,246
due to the fact that a sum of Rs. 3,314 was received in that year from the
Official Trustee of the late Martin Jordan for his maintenance for the period
of his stay in that Asylum from June 1911 to May 1918.
The increase in the total receipts of the triennium in spite of the above
fall in the income from paying patients' fees was due mainly to larger grants
paid by Government for the construction of an Observation Ward at
Bhawanipur and to meet increased expenditures on account of the rise in
the prices.
The average annual revenue derived from the value of manufactured
articles sold to the public and consumed in the Asylum also increased from
Rs. 19,651 in 1915-17 to Rs. 23,114 in the period under notice, the increase
being primarily due to the rise in the price of raw materials and the conse-
quent enhancement of the value of manufactured articles.
21. Expenditure.—The up-keep of the Lunatic Asylums cost
Rs. 2,89,071 on an average per annum as compared with Rs. 2,21,261 per
annum in the preceding 3 years and the annual average cost per head of
lunatics, calculated on their daily average strength, amounted to Rs. 289-8
against Rs. 207, the average cost in 1915-17. Leaving out building charges,
the average cost works out to Rs. 217-14-8 as compared with Rs. 184-13-9 in
the preceding period.
While there was a saving in the expenditure due to the abolition of the
Bhawanipur Lunatic Asylum, the cost of the up-keep of the remaining Lunatic
Asylums vastly increased in 1919 and 1920 owing to the abnormal rise in prices
and to the building operations in connection with the new Observation Ward.
The total expenditure for these 2 years, therefore, amounted to Rs. 2,94,551
and Rs. 3,61,542 against Rs. 2,11,120 in 1918.
The cost of working the temporary Observation Ward for the 3½ months
of the year 1918 was Rs. 2,866 and for 1919 and 1920 Rs. 9,504 and
Rs. 10,514, respectively, excluding building charges.
The expenditure under the head Superintendence increased from
Rs. 23,540 in 1918 to Rs. 27,067 in 1919 and to Rs. 27,969 in 1920. The
revision of pay of the Superintendent of the Berhampore Lunatic Asylum in
1919 and the replacement of the Deputy Superintendent of the Civil Assistant
Surgeon class by one of the Military Assistant Surgeon class and the revision
of the pay of the matron of the same Lunatic Asylum in 1920 increased the
expenditure under this head in 1919 and 1920.
There was a saving of Rs. 3,003 in the expenditure under Establishment
of the Bhawanipur Lunatic Asylum in 1918 as compared with 1917 owing to
the abolition of its staff after the 15th September. But the expenditure of
the other two Lunatic Asylums increased by Rs. 2,233 in that year on account
of the grant of war allowance to the staff, the revision of pay of the clerks
of the Berhampore Lunatic Asylum and the appointment of a second com-
pounder in the same institution. This resulted in a reduction of the saving
to Rs. 770 only. In 1919 the establishment of the temporary Observation
Ward cost Rs. 3,735 only as compared with Rs. 6,148 spent on the establish-
ment of the Bhawanipur Lunatic Asylum in 1918, or a decrease of Rs. 2,413.
On the other hand, the expenditure of the Berhampore Lunatic Asylum for
that year increased by Rs. 2,710 owing chiefly to the grant of an allowance
of Rs. 20 per mensem to the senior Sub-Assistant Surgeon for Tuberculosis
work. In 1920 the pay of some of the staff of the Observation Ward and