d 4 of
i 13th
Total.
An application for the entertainment of a special hospital assistant for the Asylum has
already been submitted, and 1 need not refer to the matter here unless to say that my
recommendation has the support of the Principal Medical Officer and the Surgeon General
with the Government of India.
The deaths were 15 in number :
(1) Chronic dysentery.—Bhukandai Cachari, criminal. Was admitted into the Asylum
on 2nd January 1890 for acute mania, and in apparent good health. His
mental condition improved, but his health failed. He got periodical attacks of
excitement, and suffered from diarrhoea and dysentery, which became chronic.
He died on the 17th March 1893. The post mortem revealed the usual
lesions of chronic dysentery in the alimentary canal.
(2) Cancrum oris.—Sanichur Munda, non-criminal. Was admitted into the Asylum
on 7th April 1893 for melancholia and in bad general health, being dropsical
and anaemic. On 18th May he was received into the hospital with scurvy, and
died on 13th July 1893 of cancrum oris. Anchylostoma were found post
mortem.
(3) Dysentery.—Sedi Pareh, non-criminal from Nowgong. Was admitted into the
Asylum on the 24th February 1893 for melancholia and in indifferent health.
He was admitted into hospital on 25th February 18;>3 for ague and dysentery,
and died on the 17th July 1893. A post mortem was made, and ulcers
were found in the large intestine.
(4) Suicide.—Budhan coolie, criminal lunatic, crime culpable homicide, section
304, Indian Penal Code. Was admitted into the Asylum on 4th March
1892 for melancholia. From admission he remained silent, and refused food
and work. He was admitted into hospital for debility on the 19th July
1893, was fed by the stomach pump. On the night of 28th July 1893 he
took a piece of cane 3 feet long out of one of the charpoys of the hospital,
and, having tied one end of it round the cross-beam and on the other end
having formed a noose, he hanged himself. A police enquiry was held, and two
of the Asylum servants were dismissed for neglect of duty.
(5) Acute diarrhcea.—Kesbou Khasiani, non-criminal from Darrang. Was admitted
into the Asylum on the 12th June 1889 for acute mania. Her mental condition
improved, but on the 16th August she was attacked with acute diarrhoea,
and died on the 18th August 1893. Post mortem.—Intestine empty, and
with mucous membrane much inflamed.
(6) Phthisispidmonalis.—Robi Christian, criminal from Sibsagar. Was admitted into
the Asylum on the 25th April 1888 for melancholia. Since admission was
suffering off and on from chronic bronchitis and chest affection. On the
31st January 1893 he was admitted for phthisis and died on the 19th August
1893. Post mortem.—His left lung was completely disorganised and several
cavities were found in both lungs.
(7) Epilepsy.—Bhokora Rabha, criminal, crime, murder under sections 302A, 324,
Indian Penal Code, from Mangaldai. Was admitted into the Asylum on the
8th May 1891 for mania and epilepsy. He was a confirmed epileptic, admitted
into hospital for a severe attack of epilepsy on the 26th August 1893, and died
on the next day. Autopsy, heart fatty, small quantity of serum was found in
both the lateral ventricles.
(8) Chronic dysentery.—Tuai Chutia, non-criminal from Sibsagar. Was admitted
into the Asylum on the 24th November 1892 for acute mania, and in
indifferent health. From admission into the Asylum he refused food, and
was intractable. Ate bricks and dry earth. Health failed gradually. Was
admitted into hospital for dysentery on the 19th July, and died on the 12th
September 1893. Post mortem.—Ulceration of the large intestine ; several
anchylostoma were found in small intestine.
(9) Ancvmia.—Duron Kayasta, criminal from Darrang. Was admitted into the
Asylum on the 26th August 1891 for dementia in fair general health. He
was admitted into hospital on the 25th August 1893 for aniemia, and died
on the 14th September 1893. General emaciation of body. Post mortem
revealed nothing beyond the ordinary appearances of anaemia.