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The payments into the treasury of money realized by the sale of asylum
products and asylum labour amount to Rs. 2,784-4-3, which is considerably less
than the realizations of the year previous. The amount is made up of the follow-
ing items, which are placed side by side with the figures of the previous two
years :—
Vegetables ... ... ... ...
Flowers ... ... ... ...
Coir ... ... ... ...
Milk and dairy produce ... ... ...
Baskets and brooms ... ... ...
Broken rice ... ... ... ...
Oil tins ... ... ... ...
Fines ... ... ... ...
Carpenter's shop ... ... ...
Extramural labour
...
...
...
1892.
Rs.
356
9
31
986
5
A.
11
0
8
11
6
P.
3
0
0
0
0
...
...
...
484
910
6
9
9
3
1891.
Rs.
1,013
15
35
1,558
1,627
67
9
86
202
1,280
A.
11
11 0
0
10
8
2
0
2
0
P.
6
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1890.
Rs.
1,231
33
120
1,576
1,887
82
7
36
197
1,104
A.
3
14
0
8
0
8
5
4
5
9
P.
9
6
0
1
0
0
0
3
6
0
In the matter of milk, vegetables, and broken rice the figures of the previous
years show to advantage because the value of those articles consumed in the
asylum was included, but in the present return this has been corrected and
(as will be observed from the foot-note) their value appears separately. As
a matter of fact the dairy products, vegetable, and broken rice have yielded
more during the year under review. The dairy has worked satisfactorily. At
the beginning of the year there were 10 cows and 10 calves, during the year
one of the calves being grown gave birth to a calf, thus making 11 cows and
10 calves, and 6 other calves were also added to the stock and 1 died. An
old cow and 6 male calves were sold realizing Rs. 148-10-0, so that at the close
of the year there were 10 cows and 9 calves. The expenses in connection with
the dairy amounted to Rs. 749-13-0, or about Rs. 236-14-0 below the actual sum
of receipts, and Rs. 927-10-9 below the value of the year's outturn. The dairy
is capable of considerable expansion, but at present there is no reserve of pastur-
age, and as the grass land adjoining the asylum is not fenced in, it is being
constantly trespassed and grazed upon by cattle belonging to outsiders, so that
during the dry months it is sometimes necessary to buy food for the cattle.
The vegetable garden has yielded a slightly better result, but the water-
supply is insufficient. Considering the large market for garden produce that
there is, it seems to me that a great deal more should be done than has been
done. Rupees 356-11-3 from the outside public under this head is altogether in-
significant. The Superintendent should not be satisfied even if the sales were
doubled. The sale of only Rs. 9 worth of flowers during the year shows how
much remains to be done to develop the resources of the asylum. Garden-
ing and floriculture are excellent ways of employing lunatics, and with alleged
overcrowding in the worksheds it is not understood why more attention is not
given to this. There is a very large demand for flowers in the local markets, and
if some attention were bestowed, a very considerable revenue from this source
alone could be realized. In 1885 Rs. 108-0-11 was realized by sale of flowers, or
in other words more during that one year than has been realized during the last
five years.
Basket and broom making is an industry that has almost altogether forsaken
the Lunatic Asylum. The Superintendent should endeavour to resuscitate it. It
was one of the chief forms of labour in the asylum and more pains should have
been taken to retain it.
The sale of oil tins and the realization of fines can scarcely appear as part
of the legitimate revenues of the asylum and have accordingly been treated
differently in these returns. Instead of appearing in column 4, Statement XI,
the items have been deducted from the expenditure under the heads " Contin-
gencies and Establishments," and the net results shown in Statement IX. (vide
foot-notes thereunder).