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damp and cold. Most of the clothing in use was made in the asylum from
material purchased from the jail and elsewhere.
Diet.—There was no change from the dietary of previous years, which was
wholesome and sufficient. The vegetable requirements were supplied by the
asylum garden and the milk from the home dairy. The other articles of daily
consumption were obtained through the agency of a contractor.
Statement I.—During the year 102 (84 males and 18 females) were admitted
into the asylum against 84 during the previous year. The number discharged
for different causes aggregated 64 against 59 of the previous year, while the total
deaths were 27 and 22 respectively. The population during the year under review
was considerably in excess of that of any preceding year, the total daily average
being 264.67 against 248.62 of the previous year and 215.98, the average of the
preceding 10 years, while the maximum number accommodated on any one night
(both sexes) was 279 as compared with 255 in 1891. Notwithstanding the in-
creased number of discharges and deaths, the number remaining in the asylum
at the end of the year exceeded the population at the beginning of the year by
11.
The daily average number sick and in hospital was smaller than during
any of the preceding four years : this is attributed by the Superintendent to the
fact that the weakly and infirm instead of being shown on the hospital registers
had been removed to the convalescent gang. But there has been at the same time
a falling off in the number of cures and an increase in the number of deaths. This
is unsatisfactory, but, coupled with the casualty roll which accompanies the state-
ment appended to this report, the following particulars will in a great measure,
if not altogether, account for it. Of the 254 inmates in the asylum at the be-
ginning of the year, no less than 63 had been upwards of eight years and of these
17 had been fully 20 years resident in the asylum, while in the matter of age
no less than 66 had passed their fortieth year. To this aggregation of old men
and incurables must be added the fresh admissions of the year. Among these
there were in point of health no less than 23, who were in bad and indifferent
condition. In point of age no less than 16, who were over 40, while 9 out of
the 27 deaths were of persons admitted during the year. Considering the per-
centage of cures and deaths in relation to the admissions of the year, the ratio of
cures both in the case of males and females compares unfavourably with the average
of the preceding years, but the ratio of deaths shows an improvement, being
slightly less, besides two of the deaths were accidental.
Among those discharged during the year were 13 who were made over to
their friends improved, 15 transferred to the Rangoon Central Prison, 5 to
Lunatic Asylums in India, 1 (uncaptured) escaped, 1 transferred from the civil
to the criminal side, and one from the criminal to the civil side on the com-
pletion of the term of his sentence.
Statement II.—This statement shows a large number of admissions of crimi-
nal lunatics during the year necessitating the transfer to the Rangoon Central
Jail of 15, or nearly as many as were admitted. The two re-admissions were of
men, who, on their friends undertaking to look after them, had been discharged,
one in 1889 and the other in 1890; their friends being unwilling to be responsible
for them any longer, they have accordingly been re-admitted. They are both
doing well, and one is said to be making steady improvement. The deaths
among the criminal lunatics aggregated 8, or twice as many as those of the pre-
vious year, although the daily average during the year under review was smaller.
Statement III.—In this statement a classification according to religion, sex,
and residence is given of the admissions during the year; and in its prepa-
ration the directions given in Chief Commissioner's Judicial Department No.
465-9K.—6, dated the 19th September 1892, have been attended to. The Bud-
dhists, as might have been supposed, have contributed the largest number of
lunatics, then the Hindus and Mahomedans. There were only six admissions of
Christians and these belonged to the European and Eurasian community. The
males admitted aggregated 84 and the females 18. Of the total admissions
49 were residents of Rangoon, 21 of Upper Burma, 6 were from Akyab, and 5
from Moulmein.