No. 1110.
FROM
SURGEON-COLONEL D. O'C. RAYE, M.D.,
Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Punjab,
To
A. E. HURRY, ESQUIRE,
Junior Secretary to Government, Punjab.
Dated LAHORE, 15th April 1895.
SIR,
I have the honor to forward the Annual Returns of the Lahore and Delhi
Lunatic Asylums for the year 1894.
2. Population.—Lahore Asylum.—The number remaining from 1893 was
185 males and 46 females, total 231. The admissions during the year were 61
males, 20 females, and 4 males and 1 female re-admitted, total 86, giving a total
population of 317, or 8 less than in 1893.
3. The discharges were 26 males and 8 females cured, 17 males and 1
female improved, 4 males and 1 female discharged otherwise, two being sent to
other asylums and one to stand his trial, and 16 males and 8 females died,
leaving in the Asylum at the close of 1894, 187 males and 49 females,
total 236, or 5 more than at the corresponding period of 1893. The average
daily population was 236.29, compared with 247.78 in 1893.
4. Delhi Asylum.—The population on 1 st January 1894 was 83 males and
21 females, total 104. Forty-one males and 11 females were admitted, and 5
males and 2 females re-admitted, giving a total population of 163, or 25 more
than in 1893.
5. The discharges during the year were 23 males and 1 female cured, 3
males and 2 females improved, 8 males and 2 females were discharged otherwise,
four being released, as it was not satisfactorily proved that they were insane.
Thirteen males and 5 females died. The population at the end of the year was
82 males and 24 females, total 106. The daily average strength was 105.14,
compared with 100.7 in 1893.
6. Criminal lunatics.—The number of criminal lunatics included in the
above figures was, in Lahore, as remaining from 1893, 59 males and 2 females.
The admissions were 19 males and 1 female, and 3 males were re-admitted,
giving a total population of 84. These were classified as follows :—
Tried and acquitted on the ground of insanity
...
...
...
lncapable of making a defence ... ... ... ... ...
Became insane during imprisonment ... ... ... ...
17
29
38
7. Seven were transferred to the non-criminal division, their sentences
having expired ; 5 men were sent back to jail as being no longer insane, and 3
were returned to their respective districts for trial ; 1, a boy, was made over to his
friends by order of Government, and 2 escaped and were not recaptured.
Five males died, leaving in confinement at the end of the year 59 males and
2 females, total 61. The daily average strength, which is steadily increasing year
after year, was 61.20, compared with 59.38 in 1893.
8. In the Delhi Asylum 10 males and 2 females remained in confinement
from the previous year, and 5 males and 1 female were admitted, and 2
males and a female re-admitted, making a total population of 21. Three were
sent back to jail, 3 died during the year, and one cured was discharged by order
of the Magistrate; leaving 14 confined at the close of the year, consisting of 3
who were tried and acquitted on the ground of insanity, 10 who were insane and
incapable of making a defence, and one who became insane during imprisonment.
The daily average strength was 12.78, compared with 11.93 in 1893.