LUNATIC ASYLUMS IN BENGAL.
11
Population on 1st
January and 31st
December.
The year opened with a population of 213 (males 188, females 25) criminal lunatics,
and closed with one of 232 (males 207, females 25), or an increase of 9 males.
Mean strength.
The mean strength of this class was 224.24 (males 198.77, females 25.47), and formed
nearly 20 per cent. of the mean asylum population of the year.
Statistics of criminal
and non-criminal
lunatics.
Admission-rate
...
...
...
...
...
Discharge-rate ... ... ... ... ...
Death-rate
...
...
...
...
...
Proportion of females to population
...
...
Criminal.
31.66
23.18
9.81
11.35
Non-criminal.
38.46
32.4
11.63
24.98
In the marginal table are shewn some of the statistics of the criminal and non-criminal
lunatics. The points of
difference between those
of the two classes were,
that there was a lower
death-rate and a smaller
proportion of females
amongst the criminal lu-
natics—facts which agree
with those of former years.
The proportion of admissions of females of the criminal class was very low, being but 5.9 per
cent. on the total number, and it will be observed that the year opened and closed with
25 female criminal lunatics.
Management.
56. The management continued much the same as when last reported on. Restraint
was sparingly employed in the Dacca Asylum, and under supervision. The " Gheel" system
of boarding out patients makes no progress.
Cash account.
57. Table No. IX in the appendix shews the cash account for the year. From it we learn
that the total amount expended was Rs. 1,19,731-4-6. In this total is included Rs. 3,711-11-3
remitted to the treasury on account of paying-patients, and Rs. 14,619-6-7 the value of articles
received from the manufacture department.
STATEMENT No. 11.
Showing the Receipts and Expenditure of each Asylum for the year 1875.
ASYLUMS.
Dullunda ...
Dacca ...
Patna ...
Cuttack ...
Moydapore...
Berhampore
Total
...
1
Daily average strength.
309.69
249.55
251.93
62.16
65.18
187.93
1,126.44
2
Total expenditure.
Rs.
42,750
26,744
22,209
5,867
4,508
13,939
1,16,019
A.
8
5
10
7
0
9
9
P.
0
9
9
3
0
6
3
3
Realized from the
friends of patients.
Rs.
2,647
940
124
A.
3
7
0
P.
6
9
0
......
......
......
3,711 11 3
4
Actual profit from
manufacture depart-
ment.
Rs.
10,182
998
3,437
A.
13
12
13
P.
0
2
5
......
......
......
14,619 6 7
5
Average cost of each
patient as per column
2.
Rs.
138
107
88
94
69
74
102
A.
0
2
2
6
2
2
15
P.
8
8
6
3
7
9
8
6
Average cost of each
patient
deducting
columns 3 and 4.
Rs.
96
99
74
94
69
74
86
A.
9
6
0
6
2
2
11
P.
9
4
3
3
7
9
7
7
8
9
10
11
AVERAGE COST OF EACH PATIENT IN
RELATION TO
Establishment.
Rs.
65
37
47
60
33
36
48
A.
12
12
12
11
5
1
5
P.
4
9
1
2
5
4
6
Diet.
Rs.
53
57
31
29
34
33
43
A.
7
7
14
11
11
6
12
P.
10
9
9
9
4
10
9
Bazar medi-
cines.
Rs.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
A.
2
5
1
2
1
0
2
P.
3
11
2
3
6
11
6
Contingencies.
Rs.
13
6
5
1
0
1
6
A.
1
8
5
10
11
2
10
P.
8
1
7
4
8
6
6
Clothing.
Rs.
5
5
3
2
0
3
4
A.
8
0
0
2
4
7
0
P.
7
2
11
9
8
2
5
Number employed
in manufacture
department.
The annual cost of each patient was Rs. 102-15-9; less than that of 1874 by Rs. 7-13-7.
58. There was a daily average number of 851 insane patients employed in the various
industrial manufactures during the year, and, as seen in table No. XI of the appendix, a profit
of Rs. 11,522-14-8 accrued to the asylums from the proceeds on account of manufactured
articles either disposed of by sale outside the asylums, or else expended for asylum purposes.
This profit was in excess of the sum shown as due to the same source in the report for 1874
by Rs. 1,276.
Establishments.
59. The asylum establishments are shown in table No. X of the appendix, and no
special observations regarding them are called for.
60. The principal events connected with the working of the asylums in the province
of Bengal during the year 1875 may be thus briefly summarized—viz., 1stly, an increasing
asylum population, containing a large proportion of patients suffering from the more chronic
forms of insanity ; 2ndly, a necessarily lower number of recoveries; and 3rdly, an average
amount of sickness and mortality, though in some cases each was at a high rate.
61. The Superintendents of the several asylums have performed their duties to my
satisfaction; and although the total results obtained may not have been fully proportionate
to the care bestowed on the insane patients, or to the judicious treatment employed for their
recovery, yet when the previous circumstances and the mental and physical condition of the
asylum population have been duly estimated, it will, I trust, be conceded that the year 1875
could hardly have afforded more positive evidence of the favourable conditions in which the
insanes have been placed, whether for the cure of their mental derangement by skilled
attention to every detail, or in lessening the hardships of their sad lot by gentleness and