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Remarks on delirious mania
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Remarks on toxic insanity ... ... ... ... ... ...
Toxic insanity attributed to abuse of ganja ... ... ... ... ...
Remarks on the excessive use of liquor and ganja ... ... ... ...
Lunatics subject to relapses of insanity ... ... ... ... ...
Alleged causes of insanity
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Transfer to asylum from the jail of criminal lunatics ... ... ...
Causes of insanity ... ... ... ... ... ...
Religious mania of acute type ... ... ... ... ...
State of health of lunatics ... ... ... ... ...
Admissions to hospital from different causes ... ... ... ... ...
Number of admissions to hospitals and deaths during past three years ... ...
Death from rupture of spleen ... ... ... ... ... ...
Epidemic of influenza ...
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History of beriberi ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Œdema of the lower limbs a symptom of beriberi ... ... ... ...
Transfer of lunatics to Moulmein ... ... ... ...
Remarks on beriberi ... ... ... ... ... ...
Mortality in the asylum ... ... ... ... ...
Marked symptoms of disease ... ... ... ... ...
Disease evenly distributed among different races ... ... ... ... ...
Physical science of disease in classes of patients ... ... ... ... ...
The dry variety of the disease not met with in asylum ... ... ... ... ...
Different symptoms in different patients ... ... ... ... ...
Remarks on beriberi ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Beriberi in Civil General Hospital compared with those in asylum ... ... ...
Dropsy and beriberi in Civil General Hospital ... ... ... ... ...
Beriberi prevalent in Rangoon ... ... ... ... ...
Beriberi not confined to Rangoon ... ... ... ... ... ...
Remarks on prevalence of beriberi in other hospitals ... ... ... ...
First outbreak of beriberi in 23 years since existence of the asylum ... ... ...
Beriberi a specific malady ... ... ... ... ...
Remarks on beriberi ... ... ... ... ... ...
Sanitary state of asylum satisfactory ... ... ... ... ...
General health of lunatics excellent ... ... ... ... ...
Insanitary conditions to which outbeaks of beriberi often attributed do not exist in asylum...
Asylum surrounded by a brick wall ... ... ... ... ...
Prevalence of beriberi in asylum due to an epidemic of the disease in district ... ...
Medical treatment at the asylum ... ... ... ... ... ...
Remarks on treatment ... ... ... ... ... ...
Active purgation a method of treatment ... ... ... ... ...
Measures adopted to arrest the epidemic ... ... ... ... ...
Disinfection of buildings ... ... ... ... ...
Purifying of asylum buildings ... ... ... ... ... ...
Cash account and expenditure ... ... ... ... ... ...
Diet charges ... ... ... ... ... ...
Increase in cost of bazaar medicines ... ... ... ...
Increase in " contingencies " ... ... ... ... ...
Changes in asylum establishment ... ... ... ...
Allowance granted to Overseer during transfer of Assistant Surgeon ... ...
Six additional warders engaged ... ... ... ...
Services of Assistant Surgeon Reilly entertained in December 1894 ... ... ...
A clerk for clerical work of the office required ... ... ... ...
Receipts and expenditure on account of manufactures ... ... ... ...
Abstract of cash account ... ... ... ... ...
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APPENDICES.
Statement No. I.—Showing the admissions, discharges, &c., of lunatics in the Rangoon Lunatic
Asylum during the year 1894 and 10 previous years. ... ... ...
Statement No. II.—Return of criminal lunatics in the Rangoon Lunatic Asylum for the year 1894
and 10 previous years ... ... ... ... ... ...
Statement No. III.—Return showing the religion, sex, and residence of patients admitted into
the Rangoon Lunatic Asylum during the year 1894 ... ... ...
Statement No. IV.—Return showing the occupation of patients admitted in the Rangoon Luna-
tic Asylum during the year 1894 ... ... ...
Statement No. V.—Return showing the ages of patients admitted in the Rangoon Lunatic Asy-
lum during the year 1894 ... ... ...
Statement No. VI.—Showing the types of insanity in the Rangoon Lunatic Asylum during the
year 1894 ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Statement No. VII.—Showing the alleged causes of insanity among the lunatics in the asylum
at Rangoon during the year 1894 ... ... ... ... ...
Statement No. VIII. —Return of sick in the hospital of the Rangoon Lunatic Asylum during the
year 1894 ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
Deaths during the year 1894 ... ... ... ... ... ...
Statement No. IX.—Showing the cash account of the Lunatic Asylum for the year 1894 ...
Statement No. X.—Showing the sanctioned establishment of the Rangoon Lunatic Asylum as it
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Statement No. XI.—Showing receipts and expenditure on account of manufactures in the Ran-
goon Lunatic Asylum during the year 1894 ... ... ... ...
Abstract of Cash Account
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