5
and in the Jubbulpore hospital only 5 patients died, 1 from epilepsy and 4 from
dysentery.
At close of the year there remained in hospital only 2 patients at Nagpur,
and none at Jubbulpore.
Statement IX.—Cash ac-
count.
18. No remarks appear necessary regarding the items on the credit side.
A sum of Rs. 200-4-10 was recovered from the paying
patients (Rs. 115-12-10 from the Military Department
for sepoys under treatment, and Rs. 84-8-0 from the families
of other insanes). These items have been omitted in the Superintendent's
account, because the payments have apparently been made direct into the treasury.
It has been decided to recover, in future, cost of maintaining lunatics
received in the Jubbulpore asylum from Native states, at the annual average rate
per head. The total expenditure for the year at both the asylums was less than
that for 1878, the decrease being at Nagpur Rs. 768-12-2, and at Jubbulpore
Rs. 587-5-8. The annual cost per head decreased at Nagpur from Rs. 86-12-3
to Rs 85-14-1, and increased at Jubbulpore from Rs. 81-3-6 to Rs. 83-13-5.
The increase at Jubbulpore is due to the total charges having been distri-
buted over a smaller daily average, viz. 121 against 134 in 1878.
Establishment.
19. The cost of establishment has risen slightly at Nagpur, the increase
being about Rs. 7. But for the charge of Rs 57, on accout
of compensation for dearness of grain, paid to subordi-
nates, there would have been a saving, as the services of a paid washerman were
dispensed with during the year and the lunatics made to do washing.
At Jubbulpore the decrease of Rs. 242-2-6 is due—
(1),—to the pay of the Deputy Superintendent being reduced by Rs. 5 ;
(2),—to the pay (Rs. 6) of the mali being transferred to the head of manu-
factory expenses; and
(3),—to there being no necessity for extra allowance on account of dearness
of provisions.
Diet.
20. At Nagpur the cost has fallen off by Rs. 90, the charges being Rs. 5,143
for 1878 and Rs. 5,053 for 1879.
In Jubbulpore there was a large reduction of Rs. 535, and this is owing to
cheaper rates of food prevalent and fewer inmates maintained during the year
under review.
Considering the daily average strength, which is the same for both the insti-
tutions, the charge at Nagpur appears comparatively high, but it is owing to dear-
ness of food grains.
It should be borne in mind that the lunatics at Nagpur contributed towards
their maintenance Rs. 397 in the shape of articles of food, &c., produced in the
farm attached to the asylum; whereas at Jubbulpore only Rs. 161 worth of
vegetables were supplied from the asylum garden. Besides a saving of Rs. 341
has been effected at Nagpur by the purchase of provisions having been made
weekly for cash payments, instead of buying them, as before, from a contractor
and paying him every month according to the published price current.
Clothing.
21. The figure shown in the statement against this head of expenditure
for Nagpur is not accurate, as the inter-departmental
charge for 100 blankets supplied from the Nagpur Jail
remained unaudited by the Deputy Accountant General's Office at close of the
year. The figure should be Rs. 282-15-6 and not Rs. 82-15-6.
At Jubbulpore the increase was large—from Rs. 230-8-3 to Rs. 384-7-6, and
the Superintendent thus explains it : —
" The hot and cold weather suits had to be renewed this year. They were
" got from the Central Jail, and cost more than they used to when made up on
" the premises." But as far as I am aware there is no objection to their being
woven in the asylum, as apparently used to be the custom.