From Brigade Surgeon John Brake, Superintendent Government
Lunatic Asylum, Nagpur, to the Inspector General of Prisons
&c., through the Deputy Surgeon General, Central Provinces,—
No. 698, dated Nagpur, the 28th January 1883.
I have the honor to forward the prescribed Statements for the year 1882,
with my remarks, explaining the working of the Nagpur Lunatic Asylum for the
12 months ending December 31st 1882.
2. Statement I. gives the number of admissions, discharges and deaths for
1882, as well as corresponding information for the past 10 years.
The re-admissions for the year under review as well as those for the year
1881 have been taken into account in calculating the percentages.
There were in the asylum at the commencement of the year 87 males and
23 females, total 110; and at its close 84 males ; 25 females, total 109; being a
decrease of 3 males and increase of 2 females, or a total decrease of 1.
At no time was there overcrowding, the highest number confined on one
night being 88 males and 27 females, the asylum having sufficient accommoda-
tion for 119 males and 36 females, each having 50 square feet of ground space.
3. The primary admissions were 13, 7 males and 6 females. Of these, 5
males and 1 female were criminals, and there were re-admitted 1 male criminal and
1 female non-criminal. The discharges were 12, 8 males and 4 females. Of these, 4
males and 2 females were criminals. The deaths were 4,—3 males and 1 female.
4. Of the two non-criminal males admitted, one a young Hindu, Dena by
name, aged about 22 years, was received from Chanda without any history: no
information can be obtained from himself or the authorities who sent him, beyond
his being a Sonar by occupation coming from Soorpa, and that he indulges in
secret vice. His case is almost hopeless, he is incoherent and generally silent.
The second, Shaik Kulloo, a cooly from Nagpur, is an epileptic, his fits being
followed by periods of dulness and incoherency.
Of the 5 non-criminal females, one Joomia, a Mahomedan widow æt 40,
received from Raipur, has been suffering for 3 years from a second attack of
insanity, cause not given.
The second, a married Kusthin, æt 18, from Mowdah, is a bad case of
nymphomania following child birth.
The third, Yenkamah, æt 40, a Hindu beggar woman from Coimbatore, in
Madras, became violent and destructive on being deserted by a Faquir, with whom
she had been travelling ; she has since the close of the year been discharged cured.
The fourth, Bukkie, a Hindu æt 30, from Wardha, is suffering from melan-
cholia following the death of two children.
The fifth, Kitty, is a Native Christian ayah from Chanda, suffering under
religious excitement, this being a second attack.
The non-criminal readmitted Sahodra æt 30, from Raipur, was received on
April 26th, and discharged on 9th December, not having shown any signs of
insanity in the interval between those dates.
5. Of the criminals, one Dehra Gond, æt 60, was received from Raipur
unable to make his defence to the charge of murdering his wife. He has been
quite quiet and rational since his admission to the asylum and has just been sent
back to Raipur to make his defence. It is stated that he has been subject to
attacks of insanity for 25 years and that an uncle died insane, but no reason is
assigned for the present attack.