LUNATIC ASYLUMS IN BENGAL.
3
Comparison with
previous years.
6. In statement No. 2 the totals and averages for all the asylums are shewn in com-
parison with those of the preceding five years. This table is useful in readily supplying a
great portion of the material for this report, and, with those of previous and future years, will
assist in forming a series of tables from which the asylum statistics for any given period may
be readily and accurately compiled.
STATEMENT NO. 2.
Comparison of 1875 with the five preceding years.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
Remaining on 14th January ... ...
Admitted during the year
...
...
Total treated
...
...
...
...
Daily average strength
...
...
Admissions per cent. of strength ...
Total discharged, transferred, &c. ...
Ditto per cent. of treated
...
...
Ditto ditto of strength ... ...
Discharged cured
...
...
...
Ditto per cent. of admissions ...
Ditto
ditto of total treated ...
Ditto
ditto of daily average
strength
...
...
...
...
Improved and transferred to care of
friends
...
...
...
...
Improved per cent. of treated ...
Ditto
ditto
of daily average
strength
...
...
...
...
Died ... ... ... ... ...
Ditto per cent. of treated ...
Ditto
ditto
of daily average
strength
...
...
...
...
Ditto from cholera
...
...
...
Ditto per cent.
of treated ...
Ditto ditto
"of daily average
strength
...
...
...
...
Ditto from other causes
...
...
Ditto per cent.
of treated ...
Ditto ditto
of daily average
strength
...
...
...
...
Total discharges and deaths ... ...
Ditto per cent. of strength
...
...
Daily average sick
...
...
Ditto
ditto per cent. of daily
average strength
...
...
...
1870.
746
401
1,147
774.1
51.8
257
22.4
33.2
187
46.6
16.3
24.1
49
4.2
6.3
107
9.3
13.8
10
.9
17
97
8.4
12.5
364
47
56.6
7.3
1871.
783
400
1,183
813.7
48.1
255
21.5
30.6
200
50
16.9
24.07
38
3.2
4.5
101
8.5
12.1
7
.59
.84
94
7.94
11.32
356
42.8
66.3
8.1
1872.
827
525
1,352
903.2
58.1
264
19.6
29.2
178
33.9
13.2
19.7
67
5.8
7.4
116
8.6
12.8
4
.29
.44
112
8.3
124
380
42.7
43.2
4.8
1873.
972
514
1,486
991.4
51.8
364
24.5
36.7
278
54.1
18.7
28.1
65
4.4
6.6
119
8
12
11
.7
1.1
108
7.3
10.9
483
48.7
56.1
5.7
1874.
1,003
501
1,504
1,050.86
47.7
290*
19.28
27.6
209
41.71
13.89
19.9
51
3.4
4.8
140
9.3
13.3
11
.7
1.05
129
8.57
12.3
430
40.9
77.2
7.3
Average
of five
years.
866
468
1,334
906.6
51.5
286
21.4
31.4
210
45.2
15.8
23.2
54
4.2
5.9
116
8.7
12.8
8
.62
1.02
108
8.1
11.9
402
44.4
59.9
6.6
1875.
1,074
418
1,492
1,126.4
37.1
318
21.3
28.2
155
37.1
10.4
13.7
46
3.1
4.1
127
8.5
11.2
13
.87
1.1
114
7.6
10.1
445
39.5
84.4
7.5
Increase.
208
...
158
219.8
...
32
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
11
...
...
5
.25
.1
.6
...
...
43
...
24.5
.9
Decrease.
...
50
...
...
14.4
...
.1
3.2
55
8.1
5.4
9.5
8
1.1
1.8
...
.2
1.6
...
...
...
.5
.8
...
4.9
...
...
* Does not include " transfers " from one asylum to another.
Remaining on 1st
January 1875.
7. The total asylum population "remaining" on the 1st of January 1875 was 1,074
(males 833, females 241), and was in excess of that " remaining " on the same date of 1874 by
71 (males 51, females 20), and of the average of the preceding decennial period by 324 (males
238, females 86).
8. There has been a steady and progressive increase in the asylum population " remain-
ing " on the 1st of each year since 1868, and it will be observed in the following table that
the increase of each year has been a varying one:—
YEARS.
1868 ... ... ...
1869 ... ... ...
1870 ... ... ...
1871 ... ... ...
SEX.
Males.
63
23
49
11
Females.
15
13
9
26
Total.
78
36
58
37
YEARS.
1872
...
...
1873
...
...
1874
...
...
1875
...
...
SEX.
Males.
39
120
16
51
Females.
5
25
15
20
Total.
44
145
31
71
9. From these figures it has been found that the average yearly increase in the
asylum population since 1st January 1868 has been 62.5 (males 46.5, females 16).
10. I have already remarked that the annual increment was a varying one, and from the
table above given it is seen that in 1868, 1870, 1873, and 1875, it was in excess of that of the
preceding years, but I am unable to assign any cause why it was so. It will also be observed
that the annual increment of females did not bear any regular proportion to that of the
males, as in 1871 it was considerably in excess of, in 1874 it was almost equal to, and in the
other years it was considerably below, that of the males.