Abstract of Cash Account for 1891.
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7,198 1
8,235 13
2,123 0
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S3 3 2
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514 1 4
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• On other hends, besides these, the total cost was Rs. 1,472-13-2, and tho cost per head of average strength Rs. 38-7-9.
Inspection Minute on the Tezpur Lunatic Asylum by Surgeon-Colonel C. P. Costello,
Administrative Medical Officer and Sanitary Commissioner, Assam, dated the 22nd
February 1892.
Inspected this Asylum this morning accompanied by Surgeon-Major S. Borah, the
Superintendent and Medical Officer.
1. The general cleanliness and order are excellent. The proportion of warders
to the lunatics is satisfactory, and the establishment is well reported on.
The drainage is good, conservancy satisfactory. There is only one well in use for
drinking water, which has been lately cleaned. 1 have directed Dr. Borah to procure
for me an analysis of a sample of this water, which was sent to the Chemical Examiner,
Calcutta, last D< cember. A rough analysis of this water shows it to be of good quality.
It is now filtered in the old fashioned way through gharrahs, &c. As this Asylum is
growing in size and importance, I recommend that the well-water be filtered in regular
filtering beds with a distribution tank attached, as is so satisfactorily done in the jail here.
1 am glad to hear that the tank on the western side of the Asylum is not now used
•even for bathing ; as, when it was so nominally used hist year, it was reasonably
blamed for the outbreak of cholera which then occurred here.
2. The western (bamboo) gate is weak, and should be remade with strong bamboo.
The eastern gate is pretty to look at, but is not strong enough : a high and stronger
gate is required here. I hope the Government will soon be able to .^ee their way to
building a high masonry enclosure all round, as the present bamboo enclosure is
unsafe and insufficient to prevent escapes. The iron gratings at the two western drainage
culverts require strengthening. The criminal lunatic ward should have been pucca
throughout as, in consequence of its being katcha pucca from the plinth upwards, a
criminal lunatic was able to make a hole in the wall and thus escape lasi year ; and the
present system of one long wooden plank frame for sleeping on helped him, as it
concealed his digging operations which were made underneath it—between it and the
floor. Separate wooden beds for each lunatic would be more safe, and ought to be
substituted for this general wooden bed frame.
3. ' C' ward for noncriminal lunatics is old, and requires repair. In the female
section there is also an old ward, which is tottering, and should be either thoroughly
repaired or a new one erected. All the wards to be repaired or rebuilt should have little
verandahs, as these would admit of the lunatics sitting beneath them in the rains, and
would also protect the wards from the entry of rain when driven by gusts of wind.
The old female ward, now being rebuilt, should be completed at once. There seems some
unexplained delay about this.
4. 1 have carefully gone into the clothing and bedding, as any deficiency in them
would, especially in the winter, cause chills with consequent chest and bowel diseases as
well as recurrences of ague. I find the bedding to be generally deficient, especially as
regards the taut mattresses, which are altogether absent or too short, and the blankets, as
many of the lunatics are only provided with one each ; and where there is a second
blanket, it is generally quite useless from age. Of course, the lunatics are very destruc-
tive of all articles of clothing and bedding, but yet the Superintendent must see to this
important matter at once. Clothing sufficient.
The raw and cooked food are very satisfactory. There is no overcrowding now, nor
has there been any in the past year, as in an extra ward, the accommodation of which
is not reckoned in the capacity by the Department Public Works, there is spare room for
15 extra lunatics, which is utilized whenever there is any tendency to overpopulation
in this Asylum.