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REPORT ON THE RANGOON LUNATIC ASYLUM FOR THE YEAR 1895.
1. Received and paid into the treasury, being value of milk
sold to the public ... ... ...
2. Value of milk supplied to the asylum and adjusted by
book transfer ... ... ... ...
3. Realized by sale of cattle ... ... ...
Total ...
Cost of feeding cows ... ... ... ...
Price paid for cattle purchased ... ... ...
Salary of milkman ... ... ... ...
Total ...
Net profit
...
...
...
...
Rs.
732
1,064
183
1,980
267
A.
10
12
0
6
6
P.
0
3
0
3
0
......
180
447
1,533
0
6
0
0
0
3
24. The net results of the asylum milk business for the past three years are
contrasted in the following statement:—
Net results of the asylum milk business for the past three years.
Milk sold to the public ... ... ...
Milk sold to the asylum
...
... ...
Realized by sale of cattle ... ... ...
Total ...
Cost of feeding cows
...
... ...
Salary of milkman
...
... ...
Price paid for cattle purchased ... ...
Total ...
Net profit ... ... ... ...
1893.
Rs.
829
713
A.
4
12
P.
9
0
......
1,543
223
180
245
648
894
0
3
0
0
3
13
9
0
0
0
0
9
1894.
Rs.
942
903
96
1,942
453
180
250
883
1,058
A.
9
13
0
6
8
0
0
8
14
P.
4
4
0
8
0
0
0
0
8
1895.
Rs.
732
1,064
183
1,980
267
180
A.
10
12
0
6
6
0
P.
0
3
0
3
0
0
......
447
1,533
6
0
0
3
25. General treatment.—The chief requirements for healthy living are fully
provided for in the asylum, namely, pure air, wholesome food and water, and
healthy habitations. The personal hygiene of the lunatics is also attended to.
A sufficient amount of exercise is given. Besides the large number employed
as asylum servants, full advantage is taken of the extensive premises to carry out
gardening operations. Manufactures to a greater extent than formerly have been
carried out; six looms have been continuously worked since August, giving daily
employment to 15 lunatics, whilst baskets, mats, brooms, &c., continue to be
made. A small extra-mural gang has also been employed (see paragraph 21).
Patients incapable of work of any kind are led out of their sheds twice daily
and given walking exercise in the open air.
26. Medical treatment.—No kind of mechanical restraint besides confine-
ment in cells when necessary has been made use of. The bodily ailments of the
lunatics were treated carefully as in ordinary patients. Forcible feeding with the
naso-œsophageal tube and funnel has been carried out as a routine treatment in
the cases of those, as frequently occurs among the insane, who persistently re-
fuse to take food ; 26 patients were thus treated during the year.
27. Tonics and sedatives as in former years were employed whenever neces-
sary. The chief hypnotic drugs used were paraldehyde, hyoscyamine given
hypodermically, and sulphonal; these were found to be most efficacious in the
order given, and form a considerable item in the expenditure incurred for medi-
cines.
28. Escapes.—There were seven escapes during the year ; five of these were
civil insanes and two were criminals; one criminal and one civil insane are still at
large. The wall surrounding the asylum is only 7 feet high.
29. The escape of Nga Hmu, a criminal lunatic, indicated great careless-
ness on the part of the night watchman in charge, who was dismissed. In con-
nection with these escapes, three warders were dismissed and four were fined.