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broad, and is situated in one of the most close and confined corners of the
grounds. Without a few acres more ground, and re-modelling and re-con-
struction of the whole system of managing and conducting the institution, I
do not think any description of systematic labour can be successfully and safely
introduced. The proceeds and expenditure of what is called the Working
Account and Relief Fund have not been entered in Table No. 14, because
it has hitherto been, and is still, carried on at the risk of the superintendent.
The value of the domestic labour of the lunatics has been estimated as
being equal to seven servants, or Rs. 75 a month; and the conveyance of
stores from the Commissariat Department, according to the number of
coolies it would have been necessary to hire, at four annas a trip, to bring
the same store to the asylum.
A separate table, No. 20, is appended to show the amount and sources of
income, and the manner of expending the receipts on account of the work-
shop.
The Europeans are not generally inclined to work at any trade or handi-
craft in which they may be skilled ; but even supposing they were inclined
to be industrious, it would be most difficult, and not without danger, to em-
ploy them in the same shed with natives, as insane people are almost always
full of prejudices and conceits, and are possessed of irritable and hasty tem-
pers ; so that unless a separate shed were provided, I do not think it would be
safe to put mechanical tools into their hands.
The Working and Relief Fund Account, however, exhibits a flourishing
condition this year, owing to several donations having been received from
native Chiefs, who, no doubt, have been led by philanthropic motives and a
laudable desire to visit the institution, to gain information regarding
their afflicted countrymen, and observe our mode of treating them. Table
No. 21 will show the whole details of the quantity and kind of labour as it
is at present carried on in the asylum ; and if it is decided in future years
that the workshop should be taken over by, and carried on at the risk of,
the Government, so that the profits or losses may be brought into the finance
of the institution and entered in Statement No. 14, a formal and regular
transfer can easily be made.
Besides the funds of the Workshop and Relief Fund, the Superintend-
ent has in hand sums of money belonging to insane sepoys, whose property
is deposited in trust with him, under G. G. O. No. 189 of 10th March 1870.
On 31st March 1874, the sepoys' money amounted to Rs. 95-12-0.
A few of the native patients are employed regularly in what may be
called domestic labour, in and about the establishment; and the paid
mason or gowndee has this year, with the assistance of a few docile lunatics,
completed a large amount of work in the way of paving back lanes and corners
of the grounds, so as to carry off the surface water into the drains. In this
way 85 superficial feet of dry rubblestone pitching has been laid down behind
the chawl for the warders, valued at Rs. 4 per 100 feet, and 765 superficial
of rubblestone and lime pitching behind the cook-house, valued at Rs. 8 per
100 feet.
Forty-eight bathing and other tubs have also boon painted by the pa-
tients alone, and the value of the work was estimated at Rs. 27. A shed for
the fire-engine was found to be much wanted, and an estimate for its erection
was procured from the Executive Engineer, amounting to about Rs. 400.