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the asylum. The mortality was due chiefly to diarrhœa, dysentery, and fever.
The death-rate amounted to 10 per cent. of the average population—a high
figure for Patna. The percentage of recoveries was 24.2, which is below the
average, though better than in the previous year. The total expenditure in the
asylum amounted to Rs. 19,412, and the cost of each patient to a little over
Rs. 72. The estimated value of the lunatics' labor was Rs. 8,534
19. Cuttack.—Sixteen patients were admitted to this asylum. Eleven
were discharged cured and one died. There was little sickness among the
inmates, notwithstanding some overcrowding. The total expenditure of the
institution was Rs. 4,957, or Rs. 100-10-5 per head of population. The
estimated value of the lunatics' labor was Rs. 711.
20. Moydapore.—The average population of this asylum was 59.9,
against 44 in 1872. Forty-one persons were admitted or re-admitted, against
31, who died or were discharged. There were four deaths only, and the insti-
tution was healthy throughout the year. Of 18 persons cured, 17 recovered
within a year of their admission. The total expenditure in this asylum
was Rs. 4,998, giving a net cost of a little over Rs. 83 per head of
population. The estimated value of convict labor was Rs. 1,323. The
successful attempt to educate some of the patients here is very satisfactory and
creditable to the native darogah who has taken much interest in the matter.
21.
Bhwanipore Lunatic Asylum for Europeans.—The Lieutenant-
Governor, on inspection, found the place comfortable and orderly. The manage-
ment of this asylum (the returns of which are distinct from those already
noticed) has continued to be satisfactory throughout the year. There has been
happily a considerable falling off in the number of patients, the average number
present having been 27 only. Of 56 persons treated during the year, 27
only were new admissions, against 66 admitted in the previous year.
Fourteen patients were discharged cured, five were restored to their friends
in an improved state, and nine were removed to Europe. The mortality
was for this asylum high; the ratio to average strength being 14.7 per
cent.—the result of four deaths, which are stated to have been caused by
complaints such as must always be anticipated in an asylum for the insane.
There was a falling off in the receipts of the institution, due to the decrease in
the number of patients; they amounted to Rs. 3,966 only. Deducting this
from Rs. 28,606, the total expenditure, the net cost of each patient is shown
to be Rs. 912, more than half of which is debitable to the head of
establishment.
The Surgeon-General bears testimony to the humane and careful supervi-
sion of each of these institutions by the Superintendents in charge, and the
Lieutenant-Governor is pleased to record his acknowledgments for the efficient
services rendered by them.
Ordered that a copy of this Resolution, together with a copy of the
report, be forwarded to the Secretary to the Government of India, in the Home
Department, for information.
Ordered that an extract from paragraphs 5 and 16 of the above Resolu-
tion be forwarded to the Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Assam, with
reference to the correspondence ending with his letter No. 406, dated the 21st
September 1874, with the remark that the Lieutenant-Governor hopes it will be
possible for the Chief Commissioner to make very early arrangements to
provide accommodation in Assam for the lunatics belonging to districts now
under his control, who are now confined in the Dacca Asylum, to which it is
urgently necessary that some relief should be given.
Ordered that a copy of the above Resolution be forwarded to the Surgeon-
General, Indian Medical Department, for information and guidance.
By order of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal,
RIVERS THOMPSON,
Secretary to the Govt. of Bengal.