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should place himself in communication with Dr. Payne, and see if some use-
ful hints cannot be derived from Dullunda in this respect.
7. Patna.—This Asylum has, during the year, been remarkably healthy,
the mortality being only 2.3 per cent. on total strength, and 3.6 on daily
average strength. Dr. Hutchinson's management has been, in other respects,
eminently successful, the average cost of each insane having diminished from
Rupees 89-9-1 to Rupees 63-11-4, while the value of the labor of the patients
has risen from Rupees 1,057 to Rupees 2,708-13-4. The Inspector-General of
Hospitals and Dr. Hutchinson object that Ganja-eaters and others are sent to
Asylums, when suffering from the effects of drugs, instead of to Hospitals or
Jails. They cannot be sent to Jail unless guilty of a punishable offence, and
there are very few dispensaries in Bengal at which the accommodation and
attendance required in these cases could be afforded. The Lieutenant-Governor
does not think it advisable to interfere with the existing practice, but it may
be desirable to show separately in the Returns, cases of this class in which
the patient is suffering directly from the effects of drugs, and is, when those
effects pass off, perfectly sane. Cases in which some form of real insanity
is induced by the effects of drugs will of course be treated as at present.
The Inspector-General of Hospitals should issue such instructions as may
secure this distinction in the Returns, if after consulting the Superintendents
of Asylums he thinks it feasible. As has been already remarked with reference
to Dacca, any proposition which the Superintendent may wish to lay before
Government in regard to the establishment must be separately submitted for
orders.
8. Cuttack.—There were four deaths out of a daily average strength of
36.24, but all of these are accounted for; two having been moribund on
admission, one a leper, who died from development of his disease, and the
fourth having been killed suddenly by another lunatic. A European Overseer
has been sanctioned for this Asylum since the end of the year. The average
cost of each inmate in this Asylum is double that in any other.
9. Bhowanipore.—There were 97 patients under treatment during the
year, of whom 17 were cured or transferred to friends, 3 died, and 45 were
sent to Europe. The cost of maintenance per man monthly was Rupees 29,
(including establishment.) This cannot be considered too high. The satis-
factory conduct of the Overseers and Matron is again brought to notice. The
Public Works Department will be requested to press on the works necessary
to put this building in a proper state.
ORDERED, that a copy of this Resolution be forwarded to the Inspector-
General of Hospitals, Bengal Medical Department, for information and
guidance.
Ordered also, that extracts from paragraphs 6 and 9 of this Resolution, and
extracts from pages V and 25 and pages VI and 56 of the Report, be for-
warded to the Public Works Department of this Government for information.
By Order of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal,
A. EDEN,
Secretary to the Government of Bengal.
No. 1007.
COPY forwarded to the Inspector-General of Hospitals, Bengal Medical
Department.
No. 1008.
EXTRACTS forwarded to the Public Works Department of this Govern-
ment.
FORT WILLIAM,
The 6th July 1869.
A. MACKENZIE,
Offg. Junior Secretary to the Govt, of Bengal.