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REPORT ON THE RANGOON LUNATIC ASYLUM FOR THE YEAR 1894.
60. Statement III, showing the religion, sex, &c.—Of the 152 lunatics ad-
mitted during the year, 98, or almost two-thirds, were Burmese. The numerical
relation which exists between the sexes of the lunatics admitted into this asylum
is deserving of notice. In most European countries insanity is more common
amongst females than amongst males, the exceptions being Germany, Denmark,
Norway and Russia.
At the present time, in England not only is the female population of the asy-
lums in excess of the male, but the number of women recently admitted is also in
excess of that of the men. The case stands very differently here, where the pro-
portion of males to females is as 24 is to 1 in respect of admissions, and 8 to 1
of daily average strength. The ratio of the male element of the population to the
female in Indian asylums is as 4 to 1.
61. The number of European and Eurasian patients under treatment during
the year was 12, of whom 6 were new admissions. The number remaining at the
close of the year was 6, for 5 men were discharged, and one, who was suffering
from general paralysis of the insane, died during the year. Of those discharged
two, Nos. 6 and 9, were cured in the asylum. Number 11, a sailor, was detained
in the asylum only for so long as the vessel in which he came to Rangoon re-
mained in the port. Numbers 7 and 8, neither of whom gave any trouble, were
two soldiers sent to the Rangoon asylum as a temporary measure from a Bri-
tish regiment in garrison at Meiktila.
62. One of those discharged cured, No. 9, suffered from an extremely acute
attack of mania. He is the man to whose handiwork, in breaking down a por-
tion of his masonry cell, reference is made elsewhere.
List of Europeans and Eurasians under treatment in the Rangoon Lunatic Asylum
during the year 1894.
No.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Name.
A. E. ...
J. W. ...
T. H. ...
A. D. ...
H.B. ...
F. ...
P. M. ...
T. W. ...
G. E. U. ...
E. C. ...
A. E. ...
A. M. ...
Sex.
Male
Do. ...
Do.
...
Do. ...
Female ...
Male
Do.
...
Do.
...
Do.
Female ...
Male ...
Do.
...
Previous
occupation.
Clerk ...
Head constable
of police.
Mechanical En-
gineer.
Nil ...
Prostitute ...
Seaman ...
Soldier ...
Do.
...
Engineer ...
Nil ...
Seaman ...
Telegraph sig-
naller.
Age.
31
38
33
19
30
20
23
24
41
26
27
18
Race.
Eurasian...
Do. ...
Do. ..
Do. ...
German ...
Norwegian
European
Do. ...
Eurasian...
Armenian
European
Eurasian...
Date of
admission.
15th September
25th March 1891
12th October
1891.
4th May 1892...
10th December
1892.
2nd November
1893.
28th February
1894.
31st March 1894
12th April 1894
12th May 1894
9th July 1894...
19th November
1894.
Type of
insanity.
Melancholia.
Toxic.
General par-
alysis of the
insane.
Idiocy.
Insanity asso-
ciated with
obvious mor-
bid change or
changes in the
brain.
Mania ...
Do. ...
Melancholia...
Mania ...
Melancholia.
Mania ...
Melancholia.
Date of
disharge
or death
9th
Feb-
ruary 1894.
28th June
1894.
26th April
1894.
26th Apri1
1894.
22nd Nov-
ember 1894.
23rd July
1894.
Remarks.
Died.
Discharged.
Handed over
to Military
authorities.
Do.
Discharged.
Discharged.
63. Statements IV and V, showing the previous occupation and ages, &c,
call for no remarks.
64. Statement VI, showing the types of insanity.—In the remarks made
in last year's report on the types of insanity found in the asylum, it was pointed
out that although three cases of general paralysis of the insane had been entered
in column 10, two of the patients had not exhibited any symptoms of the disease.
As another year has passed by without the development in them of any of the
signs characteristic of general paralysis, it is deemed advisable to now amend the
diagnosis. One of the cases is transferred to column 8, and the other is shown
in a footnote under a different designation. With these exceptions the figures
in the first line of the statement under consideration are identical with those in
the last line of the corresponding statement for the preceding year.