3
would be 7.6, or nearly 05 per cent. more than last year. In the same way if
the " cured and improved" be calculated on the total treated, the percentage
would be about 15.9, or 0.5 less than in the preceding year.
Percentages on Total
Treated.
10. It appears to me that the percentages would give a much more
correct notion of cured, &c., were they calculated on
the total treated, and not on the daily average
strength. To illustrate this, I would point to State-
ment No. 1 for Dharwar Asylum, in which the average daily strength of
females in 1864 was 1.7, while the cures were 2, or a percentage higher than
the strength. It is evident that by calculating percentages on average
strength or on admissions that both the cures and deaths might be more
than the average daily strength and above the number of admissions ; there-
fore I am of opinion that Statement No. 1 requires the addition of two
columns under heading 11—" percentage to"—to show the cured and died
to total treated.
Criminal Lunatics.
11. Statements No. 2 show the particulars regarding the criminal
population in our 5 asylums. On the 1st April 1874
there remained 64 from the previous year—62 males
and 2 females, and during the year the admissions were 40, of whom 37
were males and 3 females ; 2 males were re-admitted, making a total of 106
criminals—101 males and 5 females. Rather more than one-half of these
were in the Colaba Asylum, Government having ordered that all criminals
from the districts, other than Guzerat and Sind, should be sent there. In
Ahmedabad there were 25 criminals and in Hyderabad 16. There were 8 in
Poona and 2 in Dharwar. Of the total, 25 males and 1 female were dis-
charged or transferred, and 7 males and 1 female died. At the end of the
official year—31st March 1875—there remained 72—69 males and 3 females ;
the daily average strength being 76.6 of the former and of the latter 3.3, or
a total of 79.9
Special Asylum for Crimi-
nal Lunatics.
12. With reference to para. 18 of the Government Resolution No. 9,
dated 5th January 1875, on my former report
on asylums, I addressed Government in my letter
No. 314 of 22nd idem, in which I recommended the
transfer of all criminal lunatics to an asylum to be erected in the grounds of
the Yerauda Jail. Criminal lunatics are, probably, more than ordinary in-
sanes, bent on effecting escape, and with this view may conduct themselves
quietly and orderly for a time so as to disarm the warders of suspicion. For
such persons more than the ordinary degree of security is required, and there
is occasion for greater vigilance than in asylums where this class consti-
tutes only a small proportion of the inmates. With these the object must
be, while preserving to them the benefits of out-door employment and exer-
cise, to diminish the risk of escape. There are among criminal lunatics
those whose crimes are the direct consequence of their insane state, and those
who have been criminals before they became insanes. In this country I
think we have chiefly to deal with the former; but even among these there
are many who labour under dangerous delusions, and who, therefore, require
very vigilant supervision ; but for the latter it is necessary also to be provided
with the means for controlling criminal habits acquired before the onset
of insanity, for which the arrangements in an ordinary asylum will be found
wanting, and while carefully avoiding any appearance of being a punitive