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DACCA ASYLUM.
No. 11.
Abstract of estimated value of lunatic labor for the year 1869.
NATURE OF OCCUPATION.
Carpentering ... ... ...
Gardening ... ... ...
Water party ... ... ...
Cooking ... ... ...
Tailoring ... ... ...
Rice-making ... ... ...
Bread-making ... ... ...
Sweepers ... ... ...
Soorky-pounding ... ...
Miscellaneons ... ... ...
Hospital attendance ... ...
Coolies' work ... ... ...
Levelling new garden ground ...
Total ...
Amount.
Rs.
160
1,282
396
168
187
34
149
298
284
494
120
814
1,984
5,372
As.
12
8
0
8
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
8
4
P.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
REMARKS.
Repairing tucktaposhes and water-carts; manufacturing sheds in asylum.
Mitford and Asylum garden.
In lieu of bheestees and Hindu water-carrier, as per sanctioned establishment.
In lieu of cook, as per sanctioned establishment.
Repairing and making lunatics' clothing, blankets, &c.
Winnowing, boiling, pounding, and sifting paddy.
Making bread (hand-cakes) for the inmates of the asylum.
Assisting sweepers in keeping the asylum premises clean.
Making soorky for repairing roads.
"Lepoing" wards and cells with cow-dung, fumigating wards and cells, making
mud beds, gunny purdahs for the verandahs, and preparing dry earth for
conservancy use.
Feeding and assisting in the bathing of the sick patients, and general attend-
ance in asylum dispensary.
Making roads, levelling squares, clearing away old rubbish, and making jhamps
for verandahs in asylum.
Filling up of a tank and continually filling wells and hollows during the year
in new garden.
The above have been calculated at half and one-third of the rates allowed by
the Department Public Works and of the bazaar.
No. 12.
Annual return of sick lunatics in the Dacca Lunatic Asylum Hospital during the year 1869.
DAILY AVERAGE NUMBER OF SICK, 30.24.
DISEASE.
SUB-DIVISION.
15
16
18
21
34
43
48
49
49-I
49-I
49-I
55
57
NERVOUS
SYSTEM.
EYE
60
70
84
86
90
93
101
111
114
EAR ... 205
GLAND, 280
I.—General diseases.
Ague ... ... ... ...
Remittent fever ... ... ...
Malignant cholera ... ... ...
Mumps
...
...
...
...
Acute rheumatism ... ... ...
Secondary syphilis, 66 ... ... ...
True leprosy ... ... ... ...
Scrofula, 1-14... ... ... ...
„
meningitis, tubercular ... ...
„
phthisis pulmonalis ... ...
„
tabes mesonterica ... ...
Anæmia (malarial cachexia) ... ...
General dropsy (following fever) ... ...
II.—Local
diseases.
Meningitis (inflammation of the pia mater and
arachnoid) ... ... ... ...
White softening of the brain ... ...
Paralysis of the insane ... ... ...
Paraplegia (following monorrhagia) ...
Tetanus ... ... ... ...
Epilepsy ... ... ... ...
Neuralgia ... ... ... ...
Conjunctivitis ... ... ...
Purulent ophthalmia ... ... ...
Deafness ... ... ... ...
Goitre ... ... ... ...
Remaining.
3
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
3
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
Admitted.
75
37
13
1
12
1
1
3
1
9
2
37
2
15
1
2
1
1
9
1
3
5
4
1
Total
78
38
13
1
12
1
1
3
1
10
2
40
2
15
1
2
1
1
10
1
3
5
4
1
Discharged cured.
74
38
7
1
10
1
...
2
...
3
...
36
1
4
...
...
...
1
5
1
3
5
4
1
Died.
1
...
6
...
...
...
...
...
1
7
2
...
...
11
1
2
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Remaining.
3
...
...
...
2
...
1
1
...
...
...
4
1
...
...
...
1
...
5
...
...
...
...
...
Total.
78
38
13
1
12
1
1
3
1
10
2
40
2
15
1
2
1
1
10
1
3
5
4
1
REMARKS.