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Cost per head.
18. The annual cost per head of the lunatics for the
two years 1880 and 1881 is here shown for comparison :—
Establishment
...
Dieting
...
Clothing
...
Bazar Medicines
...
Contingencies
...
Total
...
1881.
Rs.
49
42
5
0
7
105
A.
0
15
9
3
2
0
P.
11
10
10
5
9
9
1880.
Rs.
47
44
5
0
7
104
A.
10
0
1
4
12
13
P.
8
7
6
3
7
7
19. The slight increase in cost this year is amply accounted for by the expenses
incurred in connection with cholera.
Paying patients.
20. The sum realized on account of paying patients was Rs. 486-8-3, and is made up
entirely of payments on account of insane sepoys. But
the Rs. 7 a month allowed for each sepoy does not nearly
cover all cost of their maintenance.
Employment and manufactures.
21. As a principal part of the treatment of lunatics, every effort has been made to keep
them usefully employed during the year. They have
made all the woollen blanketting and cotton cloth required
for their bedding and clothing, the women spinning the thread, and the men weaving. They
also grind nearly all the wheat used, make baskets, chicks and twine, raise nearly all the vege-
tables required for use in the Asylum, and fodder for the bullocks, while a considerable number
have this year been employed in reclaiming the waste land which lies outside the Asylum walls.
22. In statement No. 11, showing the receipts and expenditure on account of manufactures
during the year previous to this, " every kind of labor from which a palpable profit was
derived was included." This was done in order to show in one account the total profits of the
lunatics' labor ; but as this leads to confusion and moreover does not really show the correct
state of the accounts, I have thought it better this year to show nothing in table 11 but what comes
strictly under the head of manufactures, while in a memo. at the foot of the table I have shown
the receipts from other kinds of labor. As a change has also been brought into table 11 this
year, by which such charges as "indulgences to lunatics as rewards for work," and " charges for
work done by the Public Works Department" are debited against manufactures, no just
comparison can be made between the two years' accounts.
23. The profits of manufactures as shown by table 11 amount to Rs. 263- 3-6, to which
must be added the sums realized on account of other kinds of labor, as shown in the memo, at
the foot of table 11, viz:-
Grinding wheat ...
Vegetables and garden produce used in the Asylum and
sold ...
Manure sold ...
Bricks in store, dug out of waste land (since sold) ...
Total ...
Rs.
281
601
5
55
943
A.
14
6
0
0
4
P.
7
1
0
0
8
But if a strict debtor and creditor account were to be kept of this kind of labor, as is done in
the case of manufactures, an expenditure of Rs. 680-8-4 ought to be shown against it, which
would leave Rs. 262-12-4 as the net profit, or a total including manufactures of Rs. 525-15-10.
24. An average of 79 lunatics have been employed on manufactures strictly so called
and about an equal number have been employed on other kinds of profitable labor, among whom
those who are engaged in menial work, such as sweeping and cleaning, water-carrying, cooking,
road-mending, and pounding soorki for roads, are not included. It will be seen therefore
that very few who are able to work are allowed to remain idle.
General Remarks,—Buildings.
25. During the year the roof of the workshed, which had become dangerous, has been
thoroughly repaired ; two of the cells in the dangerous
ward, which were very badly ventilated, have been improv-
ed in this respect by opening out a door in one and a
large sky-light in the other; and a new cow-shed has been built outside the Asylum walls.