( 7 )
The total number discharged comparatively is as follows :—
Years.
1877
...
...
...
...
1878
...
...
...
...
1879
...
...
...
...
1880
...
...
...
...
1881
...
...
...
...
1882 ... ... ... ...
1883
...
...
...
...
Yearly average ...
1884
...
...
...
...
Males.
20
23
39
26
21
24
40
27
39
Females.
5
3
...
4
3
12
3
4
6
Of the 45 patients discharged 25 were recovered ; this being 41.67 on the admis-
sions. Our average rate for the previous 10 years is 41.08 per cent.
The comparative statement of deaths is as follows :—
Years.
1877
...
...
...
...
1878
...
...
...
...
1879
...
...
...
...
1880
...
...
...
...
1881
...
...
...
...
1882
...
...
...
...
1883
...
...
...
...
Yearly average ...
1884
...
...
...
...
Males.
9
21
20
16
20
16
12
16.2
23
Females.
2
2
5
3
5
3
...
2.8
...
The daily average comparatively for the same period is—
Years.
1877
...
...
...
...
1878
...
...
...
...
1879
...
...
...
...
1880
...
...
...
...
1881
...
...
...
...
1882
...
...
...
...
1883
...
...
...
...
Yearly average
...
1884
...
...
...
...
Males.
167
176
180.83
160.85
160.58
162.58
178.48
169.47
165.62
Females.
16
17
19.59
18.76
21.76
14.67
10.6
16.91
14.5
Statement No. II.—Of criminal lunatics there remained from 1883 a total of
61 males and females, consisting of 57 males and four females ; a total of 22 was
admitted, namely, 19 males and three females : one male was re-admitted, making
a total treated of 84, or 77 males and seven females: a total of 16 was discharged, 13
males and three females, some to the Rangoon Jail, others to stand their trial in
the various districts whence they came ; seven males died, leaving in the asylum at
the close of the year 57 males and four females, or a total of 61. The daily average
number confined under treatment was 55.57 males and 4.53 females, or a total of
60.1, against 62.36 males and 2.72 females confined in 1883.
Two men feigned insanity, one of whom was not suspected of malingering,
and is therefore entered under acute mania; he attempted to escape when he thought
that he had been found out and very nearly succeeded; the other, Maung Maung,
pretended to be dumb for a period of 12 months, and was eventually removed to
the Rangoon Jail as feigning insanity; he was suspected from the first, and on
re-admission into the jail he spoke and behaved like any other sane person.
This Department which is, in its object, virtually a prison, presents little
requiring remark. The Chief Commissioner, upon whose warrant alone patients
can be either admitted or discharged, is furnished with reports every half-year
of the state of each lunatic. Meetings of visitors are held monthly, at which
time any inmate who may be considered sane enough to be removed to the jail,
or to stand his trial, is brought before them and examined, and if they concur in
the opinion expressed by the Superintendent, a certificate to the effect that the
patient is sane and fit to be at large or to stand his trial is signed.
The criminals are principally employed inside of the walls of the criminal
enclosure, in pounding coir, basket-making, &c.; but a good many of the older
inmates, who are really insane and incurable, are permitted to work outside,
gardening, carpentering, &c. It must be, however, obvious that the greatest