FROM
THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF HOSPITALS,
BENGAL MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
To
THE SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF BENGAL,
Dated Fort William, the 13th April 1869.
SIR,
I HAVE the honor to submit the several Annual Reports and
Returns from the Lunatic Asylums in Bengal for the year 1868.
The annual lists of patients treated in the Asylums have not been printed
this year, as they take up much space, and are not required in a general Report.
I insert a comparative statement for the past six years of the whole of
the Institutions:—
The total number of
insanes admitted
and re-admitted
during the year ...
Total treated ...
Total number cured
and transferred to
friends ...
Percentage of ditto
to total treated.
The total of mortal-
ity of those years..
Percentage of mortal-
ity to total treated
Daily average
strength ...
Percentage of mortal-
ity to ditto ...
1863.
261
770
169
21.94
70
9.09
526
13.31
17.66 cured;
4.29 trans-
ferred to
friends.
1864.
389
919
205
22.3
86
10.6
587
14.65
15.23 cured;
7.07 trans-
ferred to
friends.
1865.
438
1,067
328
30.74
109
10.21
658
16.56
23.52 cured;
7.22 trans-
ferred to
friends.
1866.
306
940
221
23. 51
145
15.43
607
23.89
19.36 cured;
4.15 trans-
ferred to
friends.
1867.
372
946
177
18.71
107
11.31
603
17.74
15.75 cured;
2.96 trans-
ferred to
friends.
1868.
429
1,081
278
25.71
103
9.52
675
15.25
21.09 cured ;
4.62 trans-
ferred to
friends.
No. 1.
Is a Comparison of the General Numerical Results, 1868, at the several Asylums.
Dullunda ...
Moydapore
...
Dacca
...
Patna
...
Cuttack ...
TOTAL ...
Daily average Strength.
268
9
200
162
36
675
Remained under treat-
ment.
248
10
209
15
34
652
Admitted during the
year.
173
...
99
102
16
390
Re-admitted.
23
...
13
2
1
39
Total.
444
10
321
255
51
1,081
Discharged cured.
102
...
41
77
8
228
Improved and trans-
ferred to friends.
27
...
14
6
3
50
Discharged as not in-
sane.
...
...
...
2
...
2
Escaped unrecovered in-
sanes.
...
1
8
...
...
9
Under observation.
...
...
...
1
...
1
Died.
48
...
45
6
4
103
Remaining on 31st De-
cember 1868.
267
9
213
163
36
688
Ratio per cent. of cures
and transfers to total
treated.
29.05
...
17.13
32.54
21.56
25.71
Ratio per cent. of mor-
tality to total treated.
10.81
...
14.01
2.35
7.84
9.52
Ratio per cent. of mortal-
ity to daily average
strength.
17.91
...
22.50
3.70
11.11
15.25
The above Table again presents favorable results to the year preceding.
There has been an increase in the daily average strength of 72 : the ratio per cent
of cures and transfers to total treated has been 7 per cent larger than in 1867,
while the mortality has been 1.72 per cent less in regard to total treated, and
2.49 per cent less with reference to the daily average strength.
The re-admissions this year would appear to be nearly stationary, being in
the proportion of 1 to 7.1 of the discharged cured, and improved and trans-
ferred to friends, against 1 to 6.1 in 1867, but 1 to 18.3 in 1866. At Dullunda
the ratio of deaths per cent to average strength would appear to be steadily
decreasing, being 17.91 this year, against 23.18 in 1867, and 32.19 in 1866. At
Dacca the mortality is nearly stationary; excluding cholera, the same ratio
gives for this year 15.00 against 16.67 in 1867, and 16.0 in 1866.