REPORT ON THE TEZPUIl LUNATIC ASYLUM.
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A.t the end of the year 1877 there remained in the Asylum—
Natives of Assam
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of other provinces ...
Imported labourers
Free emigrants
Unknown
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6
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13
11
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With reference to those belonging to other provinces, inquiries have been made in the districts to
which the lunatics are supposed to belong, but it has been impossible to find any traces of their
relatives.
The names and districts of those now in the Lunatic Asylum are:—
Names of lunatics.
Occupation.
Zillah.
Pigainber
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Thacoormoney
Chintarnoney
Girisli
Binda
Klienii
Norsing
Manajan
Zingir
Nay an
Kalmuck
Bliooput
Kandala Apoor
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Ditto.
Raneeganj.
Nuddea.
Purulea.
Burdwan.
Moorshedabad.
Gazipur.
Manbhoom.
Kanjur.
Nepaul.
Madras.
Western India.
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28. Occupations, SfO. (Statement IV.).—Nothing can be said on these points, as the numbers are
too few to show whether any one class of occupation renders those following it more liable to mental
disease than others.
29. Ape, eye. (Statement V.).—This shows that 23 out of the 24 admissions were between the
ages of 20 and 40, and the remaining one above 60 years of age. Larger figures would, of course
show insanity at other ages; thus, in 187(5, of 64 cases two were below 20 years and 7 between 40 and
60. As this table takes no count of the duration of the insanity, it is of no great value, as it only
shows the ages at which the insanes were placed under restraint, and not the age at which insanity
had first shown itself. As an example, I may mention that the one case aged over 60, admitted during
the year, had, I discovered, been an inmate of the Dacca Lunatic Asylum 34 years before.
30. Types of insanity {Statement VI.).—The classification employed is that of the authorised
nomenclature, and the statement includes the " Remaining" from 1876 and admissions during
1877. The period during which the Asylum has been open is too short and the actunl numbers too
small, in my opinion, to justify any authoritative deductions from this statement as to the relative
frequency of occurrence of the various types; especially as so many of the admissions are of lunatics
foreign to the Province. A much longer and more intricate analysis than would probably be deemed
appropriate in this report would be necessary, before information of any value could be obtained, so that
my observations on this point are few.
31. In the subjoined statement, I have added a fourth column, showing the total admissions
according to type from the first opening of the Asylum:—
Remaining from 187(i.
Admitted, 1877.
Total treated, 1877.
Total treated in
187ti and 1877.
Male, i Female. Total. Male. Female. Total. Male. Female, Total, i Male. Female. ' Total.
Mania acute
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Melancholia
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Dementia, acute
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chronic
Monomania
Not insane
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Total
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3
22
5
11
6
7
24
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28
25
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2
7
8
4
3
14
14
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1
1
8
10
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3
4
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4
4
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71
71
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13
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Excluding those entered as "not insane," the percentages of the several types of the total treated
in 187G and 1877 will be as follows:—
Ratio per cent.
Male.
Female.
Total,
Mania, acute and chronic
49*2
64*7
52*8
Dementia, acute and chronic
23-8
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22(i
Melancholia,
208
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20*2
Monomania
5*9
...
4*7
These figures, as far as ihey go, and accepting them for what they are worth, show that mania
laeute and chronic) formed more than half the whole cases, and that it was by comparison very much