UErORT ON THE TEZrUR LUNATIC ASYLUM.
arson, and is now under trial. The other was discharged (cured) in 1876, after having been threo
months in the Asylum, and remained sane for the greater part of four years, during which ho worked
as a domestic servant; in both cases his insanity was brought on by the excessive use of ganja. Of
those admitted, 9 were natives of Assam and 13 were from other Provinces; the corresponding figures
for the preceding year were 2 and 9. In 12 of tho new admissions the patients had been insane
for less and in 10 for more than six months.
Tho following table shows that the proportion of those admitted as chronically insane is rapidly
decreasing, while the number of admissions for those insane for under six months is nearly double that
of any previous year:—
Of thoi
are natives
Tears.
Insane under six
months.
Insane from more than
six months.
Total.
M.
r.
T.
M.
T.
T.
31.
F.
T.
1870
4
1
6
4
10
1
"i
"2
5
I
7
4
12
46
21
7
5
0
13
2
9
2
4
59
23
16
7
10
50
22
13
9
16
14
0
10
2
6
64
18'. 7
1878
1879
24
23
1]
1880
2°
Total
25
4
29
85
30
115
110
34
144
8. The discharges, &c., &c., were-
1870.
1877.
1878.
1879.
18S0.
M.
F.
T.
M.
F.
T.
M.
F.
T.
jr.
F.
T.
M.
F.
T.
r Total
6
23-74
12-24
1
1
(i
17-22
0-4
2
8
23-74
13-D
C
6
0
i
8
22-C6
11-2
8
6
13
4
13-83
975
2
1
1
8'48
ti-20
1
1239
8-70
3
9
28-75
21-95
1
6-88
6-25
10
21-88
17-54
r.
19-71
13-43
2
4
25-95
20-
2
10
Made
ovei
friends.
(
,,
of admissions
(Not improved
Total
21-81
15-1 ft
2
5
4
9
11
2
1
2
2
1
3
6
16-42
10S7
-
(Per cent, of average population lit-
10-2
421
2C-7
' 25-8
114-7
39-52
18-8
211-1
10'4
86-66
18-80
8*47
2-44
8-59
0-25
4-94
3-08
6-80
4-87
0-98
ti-25
(!-5fi
5-2(i
12-98
10-uO
15-20
10-00
Of a total population of 144, 39 have been discharged cured, 21 (15 improved and 6 not improved)
have been made over to their friends, 4 escaped, 34 have died, and 46 remain under treatment.
9. One man, a sepoy (non-criminal), Nepali, from the 42nd Regiment, escaped during the year; ho
had been in the Asylum for three months, and appeared to have recovered his reason, and would, in all
probability, have been discharged in the course of two or three months. The circumstances attending
his escape are,—that in the night, during a storm, the keeper in charge of this ward got up to look
after some jhamps that were slamming; during his absence the sepoy climed over the partition
separating the ward from the warder's room, and escaped by pushing aside some of the bamboos
forming the palisade. His escape was not noticed until the next morning, when search was made and
enquiry set on foot, but he has not been heard of since.
10. The distribution according to Province is—
1S76.
1877.
1878.
1879.
1880.
Grand Total.
M.
F.
T.
M.
F.
T.
M.
F.
T.
M.
F.
T.
M.
F.
2
3
1
6
T.
M.
F.
T.
32
12
5
49
13
2
15
45
14
5
64
10
3
8
1
22
2
2
10
5
8
1
24
10
2
"i
0
4
"3
13
6
"4
23
2
4
3
9
2
2
6
3
7
3
6
16
9
6
7
22
61
24
22
_ 2
18
13
1
3
79
37
23
5
Total
13 10
2 11
109 35 144
Since the opening of the Asylum there have been 144 admissions (109 males and 35 females), ot
these, 61 males and 18 females were natives of Assam, 60 (46 males and 14 females) were foreigners,
and of 5 the place of birth is not known.
11. At the end of tho vcar thero remained—
Male. Female. Total.
Natives of Assam
15
7
22
.-.,, T> •
(Imported
-
11
7
18
Other Provinces
j ^ iluwigraut8
6
...
6
Total
32 14
46
12. Criminal Lunatics {Statement No. 2).—At tho beginning of the year there were 11 criminal
lunatics (7 males and 4 females) against 14 in tho preceding year; 6 mdes and 1 female were admitted;
2 males and 1 female died; and 11 males and 4 females remain under treatment, of these 1 man,
accused of arson, has not yet been tried.
Committee
during tho