( 6 )
This was owing to our having had to purchase coal-tar, earth-oil, and lime
for whitewashing the criminal cells ; and in 1888 there was a large quantity of
coal-tar and earth-oil left after finishing the contract we had with the Public
Works Department for earth-oiling the cottages in 1887, hence the small expendi-
ture in that year under contingencies proper.
The subjoined statement shows the daily average number of lunatics for
1889, the total yearly expenditure, average cost of each insane, and average cost
of each item of outgoings per individual during the year:—
1.
2.
Average daily number of inmates ... ... ...
Average daily number employed on labour ... ...
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
.8.
Total expenditure throughout 1889 ... ... ...
Total income from lunatic labour and miscellaneous sources ...
Payments by friends of lunatics for maintenance ... ...
Received from Municipalities for maintenance of pauper lunatics
Average cost of each lunatic as per column 3 ... ...
Average cost of each lunatic after deducting items 5 and 6 ...
242.53
223
Rs.
24,914
5,724
249
10,393
102
58
A.
14
0
8
2
11
13
P.
11
0
0
11
8
7
Average yearly expenditure of each patient in relation to—
9.
10.
11. 12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
Establishment ... ... ... ... ...
Diet ... ... ... ... ...
Bazaar medicines ...
...
...
...
...
Clothing and bedding ... ... ... ... ...
English medicines...
...
...
...
...
Contingencies proper ... ... ... ...
Contingencies of manufacture... ... ... ...
Cost of printing forms and stationery ... ... ...
40
50
0
0
2
3
4
0
11
3
7
15
1
11
1
8
6
6
0
10
0
4
0
4
Statement X contains the sanctioned establishment at the close of the year
and requires no remark.
Statement XI.—From the proceeds of manufacture Rs. 5,724 was remitted
to the treasury as compared with Rs. 6,451-8-8 in 1888.
The explanation for this decrease in the receipts is that in former years we
cut our own fuel and sold it to the contractor. During the past year we had great
difficulty in getting any, and, as the demand for firewood is getting greater every
year, owners of land in the vicinity of Rangoon object to lunatics carrying away
trunks of trees which in former years could be had for nothing, and the profit
from dairy was less during the year on account of one good milking cow having
died, and our having to pay for cocoanut shells, which we got for nothing in
former years. The profit on the coir produced was therefore much less.
Adding together the profit from manufactures and receipts from miscellane-
ous sources, the amount realized from paying patients and from Municipalities,
which make up Rs. 16,366-10-11, and deducting this from the total expenditure
of Rs. 24,914-14-11, we get a balance of Rs. 8,548-4-0 as the actual cost to
Government on account of the Asylum during the year; and the average cost of
each lunatic is Rs. 35-4-0, or Rs. 7-11-3 less than the previous year.
Taking into account the money received from relatives for the maintenance
of patients, the amount received from Municipalities, and the money value of the
labour of the inmates, it is calculated that each lunatic on an average contributed
Rs. 67-7-8.
The following is a detailed comparative statement of the money received for
maintenance, labour, sale of articles produced or manufactured at the Asylum,
and from miscellaneous sources :—
Vegetables ... ... ... ...
Flowers ... ... ... ...
Coir ... ... ... ...
Milk ... ... ... ...
Grass ... ... ... ...
Baskets and brooms ... ... ...
Fuel ... ... ... ...
Broken rice ... ... ... ...
Oil tins ... ... ... ...
Fines ... ... ... ...
Carpenter shop
...
...
...
...
Extramural labour ... ... ...
Maintenance ... ... ... ...
Coats sold ... ... ... ...
Total ...
1888.
Rs.
875
21
117
2,242
4
2,058
221
82
5
28
395
400
8,159
A.
4
0
2
0
5
7
2
8
5
11
5
4
4
P.
8
0
6
0
0
10
11
0
0
9
0
0
3
......
14,610 12 11
1889.
Rs.
966
21
74
1,781
A.
3
7
7
4
P.
8
9
2
3
......
1,622
153
82
5
13
222
738
10,642
42
16,366
12
9
8
5
11
6
5
10
0
10
0
8
0
0
6
0
0
11
0
11