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REPORT ON TIIE TEZPUR LUNATIC ASYLUM.
The increase under tlie head of establishment is due to one chaukidar and one jamaddr having
been added to the establishment and to the pay of the warders and overseer having beon increased. The
average cost of diet was less by Rs. 5-6-4 than in 1880, this is owing to a lowering in the prices of
dhall, rice, fish, and oil.
The ordinary diet scale is—
Rice
IX chittacks per man per day.
Dluill
2
Ditto
Vegetables
3
Oil
i
Salt
Onions
Tamarind
Ghi
Masallaa
Fi^li
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
chittacks every alterate day.
Besides this, a few extras, such as tobacco, betel-leaf, betel-nut, lime, &c.
This scale is greater than that of the jail by one chittack rice, one-eighth chittack ghi, and one-
eighth chittack salt, and appears to be suitable in quality and sufficient in quantity.
The following statement gives the weight at tho beginning and at the end of the year of those
under treatment on the olst December 1881:—
Oil admission.
On 31st December 1881.
5,2181b
5,384 lb
How many gained.
Ditto
lost
Greatest gained
Ditto lost ...
34
21
271b
14,.
Of those admitted during tho year the weight was:—
On admission.
On 31st December 1881.
2.0051b
2,0431b
How many gained
12
Ditto
lost
7
Greatest gained
191b
Ditto
lost
14 „
The loss was principally due to increased sickness at the end of tho year. The lunatics are again
gaining weight, and there are none on the sick list.
During the year under review we purchased 110 blankets from the Bhaugulpnr Jail at a cost of Rs.
227-4, against 60, of an inferior quality, at a cost of Ks. 99-5-3, in 1880. We had also to procure
new beds and beddings at a cost of Rs. 61. More clothing, and at higher rates, was bought from the jail.
Under the heads of bazar medicines, contingencies, and manufactures there has been a decreased
expenditure at the rate of Rs. 3-3-9 per head.
21. Sanctioned establishment (Statement No. 10).—A proposal to increase the number and pay
of the establishment was favourably considered in 1880, but the proposed changes only took place at the
beginning of the year under review, and consisted in adding one chaukidar and one jamaddr to the old
staff, and increasing the pay of the warders from Us. 8 to Rs.10, of the Compounder from Rs. 10 to 12,
and of the overseer from Rs. 30 to Us. 50 per mensem. The following table shows the number and pay
of the present establishment:—
Jls-
150 per month.
50 to 75 by an increment Rs. 2-8 per month.
15 per month.
12
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M
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ti
11
12
10
9
8
4
10 per head per month.
10
1 Superintendent
1 Overseer
1 Jemadar
1 Com pounder.....
1 Sweeper
1 Gardener
1 Chaukidar
1
Ditto
1 Barber
3 Male keepers ..
2 Female keepers
The overseer and the keepers have given good satisfaction, and no cases of neglect or ill-treatment
have come under my notice.
22. Garden, manufactures, §c. (Statement No. 11).—The average employed was—
Clearing grounds
12*89"1
In the garden
12*33
Sallonies works
1 7.j
Cooks
3
Miscellaneous work
Sweepers
Repairs of building.
Unable to work
Sick in hospital ...
Vegetables and milk to the value of Rs. 470-3-9 have been supplied for the use of the Asylum,
against Rs. 210 in 1880. At the end of 1880 we bought some cows as an experiment. They have since
supplied Rs. 137-12 worth of milk over and above their purchase-money, and are now being formally
handed over to the Asylum.
23. The oflicial visitors havo met seven times during the year for the transaction of business. The
Asylum has been visited officially by the Chief Commissioner on 11th April ami 1st, November 1881,
Inspector-General of Jails on 28th February 1881, and by the Deputy-Surgeon-General on tho 17th
December 1881. Copies of their remarks have been duly forwarded, and need not bo repeated.
TEZPUR:
*
6*66 1-51*64
0*99
7*84
2*G3
The 26th January 18S, ».|
G. A. WARBURTON, M.B.,
Superintendent, Tetpur Lunatic Asylum.