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Deputy Superintendent, resulting in peculation and fraud by the subordinate
servants, so that the wretched lunatics did not receive the food which was intended
for them.
21. Doctor Beatson, in commenting on Doctor Brake's minute, admits, at
least to a certain extent, the correctness of the statement made as to the physical
condition of the lunatics ; for he says in his report " when I made over charge in
April there was more sickness and debility than usual." He improperly attempts
to defend the Deputy Superintendent, and to throw the blame, as regards these
grave irregularities, on his official superiors, who had, according to his statement, put
pressure as to reduction of expenditure in such a way, that the reduction of diet to
the lunatics was a necessary consequence, and that extreme reduction by the
Deputy Superintendent was a mere error of judgment. But the unfairness of
this is self-evident, for in the first place the pressure that was put on him was not
to reduce the scale of diet, but the rates at which the expenditure was incurred ; and
in the second place, Doctor Brake bears testimony to the fact that the " diet
was ample as issued and paid for," but that he " had grave suspicion that the
lunatics did not receive their proper quantity."
22. Doctor Brake took prompt measures, as explained by him, to remedy the
evils which existed, and it is to be hoped that the present year will show very
different results.
Expenditure.
23. The following table shows the expenditure under the several heads
of the two asylums in juxtaposition :—
Establishment ... ...
*Diet ... ... ...
Clothing
...
...
Bazar medicines ... ...
Contingencies ... ...
Remitted to treasuries on account of pay-
ing patients
Total ...
Nagpur.
Total.
Rs.
5,514
3,558
511
11
175
6
9,780
a.
14
12
14
15
13
13
3
p.
11
2
6
2
3
8
8
Annual cost
per head.
Rs.
47
30
4
0
1
…
83
a.
2
4
5
1
7
...
6
p.
8
8
9
7
11
...
7
Jubbulpore.
Total.
Rs.
5,241
3,787
121
13
1,234
41
10,439
a.
12
8
14
4
5
2
14
p.
0
5
0
3
5
9
10
Annual cost
per head.
Rs.
39
28
0
0
9
0
78
a.
4
6
14
1
4
4
4
p.
10
4
7
7
0
11
3
Proportionate cost per head.
The proportionate cost per head of the two institutions is less in Nagpur by
Rs. 4-4-10 than in 1875, and in Jubbulpore greater by
Rs. 1-3-10. This increase in Jubbulpore is entirely due
to the cost of asylum buildings constructed during the year, as referred to in
paragraph 4 of this report, being treated as contingencies. This has raised the
proportionate cost per head under this one item from Rs. 3-3-0 in 1875 to Rs. 9-4-0
in 1876. In Jubbulpore too there is a slight increase in "diet," which is explained
by Doctor Rice in his report.
Clothing.
24. I am unable to explain how it is that the cost of clothing in the Nagpur
Asylum should have increased nearly 70 per cent, more
particularly in the face of Doctor Beatson's remark, that
* Includes value of articles supplied by manufactory.
6
at the close of the year the " clothing was in a most deficient condition.'
Explanation has been called for from the Superintendent.
Establishment.
25. Statement No. 10 shows the strength of each establishment as it stood
on the last day of the year. These are the same in point
of numbers as in the year previous, but the aggregate cost
of each is less. In Nagpur, because the Deputy Superintendent is now a 2nd
Class Hospital Assistant on Rs. 40, instead of as formerly a 1st class man on
Rs. 60. In Jubbulpore the allowance of Rs. 15 a month to the Deputy Super-
intendent as house-rent has been saved since the house on the premises was
finished.
Profits.
26. There is no means of ascertaining the actual value of the labour performed
by the lunatics, and therefore no estimate of profit can be
reliable. Doctor Rice gives the profit in Statement 11 as
Rs. 1,651-2-9 ; whilst Doctor Beatson only shows Rs. 72-11-7. As Doctor Beatson
remarks the work done is chiefly of a nature difficult to appraise, such as road-
making, gardening, and the like, but which would amount to a considerable sum in
the shape of wages.
27. At Nagpur the Committee of management have made regular visits of
inspection, minutes of which have from time to time been sent to the Chief
Commissioner.
7
Annual Report of the Nagpur Lunatic Asylum for the year 1876.
STATEMENT No. I.—Shows that at the close of the year 1875, 89 males and 25
females
During 1876, 28 males and 5 females were
admitted; of the females. 2 were re-admissions. The total treated therefore was
147, or males 117, females 30.
4 males and 1 female were discharged cured ; 5 males and 1 female were
made over to their friends in an improved condition.
10 males and 2 females died during the year.
On the 31st December 1876, 97 males and 26 females, total 123, re-
mained under treatment.
The daily average strength was of males 92.51, and of females 24.99. The
daily average population was therefore 117.50, against 119.90 in the preceding
year.
The daily average sick was 5.77 against 5. in the preceding year.
The percentage of cured to daily average strength was 4.25 : of deaths to
average strength 10.2l. Of cures as compared to admissions, the percentage
15.62, and of deaths, 37.5.
The total population of the asylum was about the average of the last ten
years.
STATEMENT No. II.—Is a return of criminal lunatics, admitted, discharged
and died during the ten preceding years. Sixteen remained on the 1st Janu-
ary 1876, and 4 were admitted, total 20. The whole of these remained under
treatment on the 31st December.
The daily average number was 17.95.
STATEMENT No. III.—Shows the religion and sex of the admissions, and
the districts from which they came. 21 were Hindus, 4 Mussalmans, 2 Christians,
and other castes 6 ; 28 were males and 5 females ; 19 belonged to, or were found
in the neighbourhood of Nagpur, and the remainder came from adjacent dis-
tricts of the Central Provinces.
STATEMENT No. IV.—Shows the trade and occupation of the admissions.
Of the 33, 5 were beggars, 1 sepoy and 2 Police Constables; the remainder
belonged chiefly to the labouring and cultivating classes.
STATEMENT No. V.—Shows the ages of admissions. The majority were
between 20 and 40, 3 were under 20, and 7 between 40 and 60.
STATEMENT No. VI.— Types of insanity. Of the 33 cases admitted, 17 were
cases of acute mania, 8 of chronic mania, 4 melancholia, 2 acute dementia, and
2 chronic dementia. Recoveries (5) were all acute cases on admission. Four cases
of acute mania, 1 chronic mania, and 1 melancholia were made over to their
friends improved ; and 12 died, 3 from atrophy, 1 paralysis, 2 epilepsy, 1 pneu-
monia, 2 dysentery, and 3 from diarrhœ.
STATEMENT No. VII.—Alleged causes of insanity. Of the 33 admissions,
13 were ascribable to the use of ganja, 1 to opium, and 2 were the result of
fever, and 3 to loss of property. In 14 the cause could not be traced.
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When I made over charge in April last there was more sickness and
debility than usual, owing to the reasons already detailed ; but looking at the num-
ber of deaths, and the causes of mortality, and comparing them with other years,
I cannot think that the year has been one of very severe or immoderate sickness.
The rate of mortality is not I think high for a Lunatic Asylum. I have had
all the inmates repeatedly under review since my return to Nagpur, and I find
in their general appearance no remarkable alteration, either for the better or the
worse.
Clothing was in a most deficient condition. With the sanction of the visitors,
arrangements are now being made as speedily as possible for its renewal. Second
Class Hospital Assistant Abdoolmajeed Khan has been only recently appointed
Deputy Superintendent, and I am therefore unable to speak fully of his qualifica-
tions for the post. He appears, however, to be very energetic, and anxious to
do his duty ; he has already had experience in the Jubbulpore Asylum, and I can
therefore have no doubt that he will be of very great assistance in the future
management of the Nagpur institution.
STATEMENT No. IX.—Shows the amount received from the treasury and
other sources for maintenance, and the annual cost per head of each lunatic.
STATEMENT No. X.—Shows the establishment as it stood on the 31st
December at its lowest.
STATEMENT No. XI.—Shows the receipts and expenditure on account of
manufactures, or rather on account of agricultural produce. There are no
inmates capable of being employed in manufactures, while a considerable number
can be occupied with field labour. The actual cash profit is trifling, amounting
to Rs. 72-11-7, and does not at all represent the amount of labour performed
by the lunatics, who have during the year done a very considerable amount of
work in the shape of road-making, gardening &c., the value of which, if esti-
mated, would amount to a large sum of money.
The asylum has been regularly inspected by the visitors, and their recorded
remarks show that they were satisfied with the good order of the institution,
and the cleanliness of its inmates.
The clothing supplied by the jail in the early part of the year was considered
by them to be unsatisfactory.
NAGPUR,
19th February 1877.
W. B. BEATSON,
Supt. Govt. Lunatic Asylum.
11
No.3
Return showing the religion, sex and residence of patients admitted into the Nagpur
Asylum during the year 1876.
1
Districts.
Nagpur ...
Sambalpur ...
Bhandara ...
Raipur ...
Chhindwara
...
Wardha ...
Total ...
2
Hindus.
M.
7
3
2
2
2
1
17
F.
3
...
...
...
1
...
4
T.
10
3
2
2
3
1
21
3
Mohammadans.
M.
2
...
1
…
1
…
4
F.
...
...
...
…
...
...
...
T.
2
...
1
...
1
...
4
4
Christians.
M.
1
...
...
...
...
...
1
F.
1
...
...
...
...
...
1
T.
2
...
...
...
...
...
2
5
Other castes.
M.
5
...
...
1
...
...
6
F.
…
...
...
…
...
...
...
T.
5
...
...
1
...
...
6
6
Total.
M.
15
3
3
3
3
1
28
F.
4
..
…
...
1
...
5
T.
19
3
3
3
4
1
33
No.4
Return showing the occupation of patients admitted into the
Nagpur Asylum during the year 1876.
1
Occupation.
Beggar ...
Cultivator ...
Labourer ...
Police Constable ...
Sepoy ...
Shopkeeper ...
Unknown ...
Total ...
3
Males.
5
5
3
2
1
3
9
28
3
Females.
...
...
2
...
...
...
3
5
4
Total.
5
5
5
2
1
3
12
33
No. 5.
Return showing the ages of patients admitted into the Nagpur Asylum during the year 1876.
1
Sex.
Males ... ... ...
Females
...
...
...
Total ...
2
Under 20.
3
...
3
3
20 to 40.
21
2
23
4
40 to 60.
4
3
7
5
Upwards of 60.
...
...
...
6
Total.
28
5
33
12
No. 6.
Return showing the types of Insanity of the lunatics in the Asylum at Nagpur during the year 1876.
1
Remaining ... ...
Admitted
...
...
Total treated
...
...
Recovered ... ...
Improved
...
...
Died
...
...
2
105 a.
Acute mania.
M.
18
15
33
4
3
2
F.
4
2
6
1
1
...
T.
22
17
39
5
4
2
3
105 b.
Chronic mania.
M.
55
7
62
...
1
6
F.
17
1
18
...
...
2
T.
72
8
80
...
1
8
4
106.
Melancholia.
M.
7
3
10
...
1
...
F.
1
1
2
...
...
...
T.
8
4
12
...
1
...
5
107.
Acute
dementia
M.
1
2
3
...
...
...
F.
1
...
1
...
...
...
T.
2
2
4
...
...
...
6
107 a.
Chronic dementia.
M.
15
1
16
...
...
2
F.
3
1
4
...
...
...
T.
18
2
20
...
...
2
7
108.
Paralysis of the
insane.
M.
1
...
1
...
...
...
F.
...
...
...
...
...
...
T.
1
...
1
...
...
...
8
109.
Idiotcy.
M.
...
...
...
...
...
...
F.
...
...
...
...
...
...
T.
...
...
...
...
...
...
9
&c.
M.
...
...
...
...
...
...
F.
...
...
...
...
...
...
T.
...
...
...
...
...
...
10
&c.
M.
...
...
...
...
...
...
F.
...
...
...
...
...
...
T.
...
...
...
...
...
...
11
Not in-
sane.
M.
...
...
...
...
...
...
F.
...
...
...
...
...
...
T.
...
...
...
...
...
...
12
Total.
M.
97
28
125
4
5
10
F.
26
5
31
1
1
2
T.
123
33
156
5
6
12
No. 7.
Showing the alleged causes of insanity among the lunatics in the Asylum at Nagpur during the year 1876.
1
Remaining ... ...
Admitted Criminal ...
Non-Criminal.
Total treated ... ...
Recovered ... ...
Improved ... ...
Died
...
...
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Physical causes.
Ganja.
M.
33
2
11
46
4
3
3
F.
1
...
...
1
...
...
...
T.
34
2
11
47
4
3
3
Spirit.
M.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
F.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
T.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Opium.
M.
1
...
1
2
...
...
1
F.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
T.
1
...
1
2
...
...
1
Fever.
M.
4
...
2
6
...
1
2
F.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
T.
4
...
2
6
...
1
2
&c.
M.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
F.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
T.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
&c.
M.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
F.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
T.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Total
physical.
M.
38
2
14
54
4
4
6
F.
1
...
...
1
...
...
...
T.
39
2
14
55
4
4
6
9
10
11
12
13
Moral causes.
Grief.
M.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
F.
1
...
...
1
...
...
...
T.
1
...
...
1
...
...
...
Anger.
M.
...
...
...
...
...
...
F.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
T.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Fear.
M.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
F.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
T.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Loss of property,
relations and reli-
gious excitement.
M.
9
...
2
11
...
...
...
F.
2
...
1
3
...
...
...
T.
11
...
3
14
... ... ...
Total
ral.
M.
9
...
2
11
...
...
...
F.
3
...
1
4
...
...
...
T.
12
...
3
15
...
...
...
15
Total
known.
M.
47
2
16
65
4
4
6
F.
4
...
1
5
...
...
...
T.
51
2
17
70
4
4
6
15
Total
unknown
M
42
1
9
52
...
1
4
F.
21
1
3
25
1
1
2
T.
63
2
12
77
1
2
6
16
Grand total.
M.
89
3
25
117
4
5
10
F.
25
1
4
30
1
1
2
T.
114
4
29
147
5
6
12
13
No. 8.
Return of sick in the hospital of the Nagpur Lunatic Asylum during the year 1876.
1
Diseases.
(The names and numbers by which diseases are indicated in the
nomenclature of 1868 should be strictly followed.)
11 Simple continued fever ... ... ...
38 Chronic rheumatism ... ... ...
82 Atrophy ... ... ...
84 Paralysis ... ... ...
93 Epilepsy
...
...
...
111 Conjunctivitis ... ... ...
306 Bronchitis
...
...
...
314 Asthma ... ... ...
315 Pneumonia ... ... ...
448 Dysphagia
...
...
...
462 Pyrosis ... ... ...
466 Dysentery ... ... ...
484 Diarrhœa ... ... ...
491 Hœmorrhoids ... ... ...
524 Splenitis ... ... ...
528 Hypertrophy ... ... ...
818 Inflammation of cellular tissue ... ... ...
859 Ulcers ... ... ...
905 General debility ... ... ...
1012 Wound ... ... ...
1116 Sprain ... ... ...
Total ...
2
Remaining in hos-
pital from pre-
vious year.
M
3
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
2
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
6
F.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
T.
3
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
2
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
6
3
Admitted during
the year.
M.
24
1
4
1
...
1
3
1
...
...
1
9
15
...
1
...
1
2
1
2
2
69
F.
6
1
...
...
2
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
1
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
12
T.
30
2
4
1
2
1
3
1
...
1
1
9
16
1
1
...
1
2
1
2
2
81
4
Total.
M.
27
1
4
1
...
1
3
1
...
...
1
11
16
...
1
...
1
2
1
2
2
75
F.
6
1
...
...
2
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
1
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
12
T.
33
2
4
1
2
1
3
1
...
1
1
11
17
1
1
...
1
2
1
2
2
87
5
6
7
8
Results.
Discharged cured.
M.
24
1
1
...
...
1
3
1
1
...
...
8
13
1
1
...
1
2
1
2
2
63
F.
6
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
9
T.
30
2
1
...
...
1
3
1
1
1
...
8
14
1
1
...
1
2
1
2
2
72
Discharged "other-
wise."*
M.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
F.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
T.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Died.
M.
...
...
3
1
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
2
3
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
10
F.
...
...
...
...
2
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
2
T.
...
...
3
1
2
...
...
...
1
...
...
2
3
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
12
Remaining sick.
M.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
F.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
T.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
* To be explained by footnote.
14
No. 9.
Cash Account of the Nagpur Lunatic Asylum for the year 1876.
Receipts.
Items.
Received from Treasury ...
Received from Madras Paymaster for maintenance
of Military paying patients ...
Value of articles received from Manufacture Depart-
ment (vegetables and milk) ...
Total ...
Amount.
Rs.
9,510
6
262
9,780
a.
8
13
13
3
p.
5
8
7
8
Expenditure.
Items.
Establishment ...
Diet
...
...
Clothing ...
Bazar Medicines
...
...
Contingencies ...
Remitted to Treasury on account of
Military paying patients
...
Total ...
Cash expended.
Rs.
5,514
3,295
511
11
175
6
9,517
a
14
14
14
15
13
13
6
p.
11
7
6
2
3
8
1
Value of articles
received from
Manufacture
Department.
Rs.
...
262
...
...
...
...
262
a.
...
13
...
...
...
...
13
p.
...
7
...
...
...
...
7
Total.
Rs.
5,514
3,558
511
11
175
6
9,780
a.
14
12
14
15
13
13
3
p.
11
2
6
2
3
8
8
Annual cost
per head.
Rs.
47
30
4
0
1
...
83
a.
2
4
5
1
7
...
6
p.
8
8
9
7
11
...
7
No. 10.
Showing the sanctioned Establishment of the Nagpur Asylum as it stood on the 31st December 1876.
1
Establishment.
Superintendent ... ...
Deputy Superintendent ... ...
Duffadar
Warders
Counted as Jemadar ...
Male keepers ... ...
Female keepers ... ...
Compounder
...
...
Head Gardener ... ...
Under Gardener ... ...
Barber ... ...
Dhoby ...
Sweeper, male ... ...
Daily average number of males ...
Do.
do.
do. females ...
2
Number.
1
1
1
2
10
3
1
1
1
1
1
1
42.51
24.99 117.50
3
Monthly wages.
Rs.
250
60
10
16
60
18
7
7
6
2
2
7
445
As.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
P.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Proportion of
Jemadars to males
Jemadarins to females
Male keepers to males
Female keepers to females
1 to 31.20.
......
1 to
9.36.
1 to
8.76.
15
No. 11.
Showing Receipts and Expenditure on account of Manufactures in the Lunatic Asylum at Nagpur during the year 1876.
1
Mean population.
M.
92.51
F.
24.99
Total.
117.50
2
Average number em-
ployed.
M.
13.61
F.
6.06
Total.
19.67
3
4
5
6
7
Credits.
Received during the year for articles sold
or for lunatic labour.
Rs.
367
a.
14
p.
0
Value of manufactured goods made over
to Asylum for Asylum purposes.
Rs.
262
a.
13
p.
7
Value of raw materials in store.
Rs.
...
a.
...
p.
...
Value of plant and machinery in store.
Rs.
377
a.
0
p.
0
Total credits.
Rs.
1,007
a.
11
p.
7
8
9
10
11
12
Debits.
Value of manufactured goods in store on
1st January.
R.
...
a.
...
p.
...
Value of raw materials in store on 1st
January.
R.
...
a.
...
p.
...
Value of plant and machinery in store on
1st January.
Rs.
377
a.
0
p.
0
Raw materials purchased and all other
charges.
Rs.
558
a.
0
p.
0
Total debits.
Rs.
935
a.
0
p.
0
13
Excess of credits or profit.
Rs.
72
a.
11
p.
7
14
Excess of debits or loss.
R.
...
a.
...
p.
...
15
Amount of outstanding bills due to Asylum.
R.
...
a.
...
p.
...
16
Annual Report of the Government Lunatic Asylum, Jubbulpore, for the year 1876.
The Annual Statements which accompany this report are so full, that
only brief comments on each are necessary.
STATEMENT No. I.—The number admitted was lower than in any year since
1869. There was no re-admission. The number discharged cured was 18, against
11 for the year preceding. 30 were made over to their friends for the following
reasons :—That they were not likely to derive any further benefit from a
residence in the asylum ; that they were harmless ; and that their friends were
willing and able to take care of them, having also given an undertaking in
writing to do so. They were all, however, considerably improved in mental and
bodily health. This was effected by regular diet, clothing and attention to
bodily health,—circumstances, the neglect of which lead to much of the insanity
of individuals in India. Then there was the absence of irritating occurrences ;
their life in the asylum was calm and uninterfered with. The consequence was
that they grew stouter and more healthy in body and mind ; their friends con-
sidered them " cured," and invariably petitioned the Magistrate for their dis-
charge on that ground.
One lunatic escaped out of a strongly-barred separate cell, and has not
since been recaptured. He is not dangerous ; but he pesters officials with
petitions on all sorts of grievances, chiefly of a nature involving legal processes;
he used to hang about Katcheries, and, I suppose, there acquired the knack of
using the forms and language peculiar to the law, in which he seems to have
gained a somewhat specious fluency.
There were only two deaths in the asylum,—one from diarrhœa and one
from dysentery.
STATEMENT No. II.—Shows a progressive increase in the number of criminal
lunatics.
No one of this class has died during the past two years.
STATEMENT No. III.—The number of Mussulmans admitted is, I suppose,
about the proportion that the members of that creed bear to Hindus.
The Christian admitted was a Madras East Indian, of the Telegraph Depart-
ment. He was subject to delusions ; but on partial recovery he was made over to
his friends.
None were received from Damoh or Mandla, and only one from Nimar.
STATEMENT No. IV., V. and VI.—Call for no further comments than were
made in preceding reports.
The forms of insanity, as detailed in No. VI., are easily distinguishable one
from the other ; the entries should not be regarded as an excessive refinement
in diagnosis.
Not so, however, with No. VII.—The alleged causes of insanity are always
open to doubt ; and when given at all, must be accepted by us in the absence of
anything other than the most scanty information that would pass muster as a
reason for sending an individual to an asylum.
17
Epilepsy can scarcely be considered a cause of insanity : when connected
with it at all, it is rather one of the modes in which the disease manifests itself,
—a sign concurrent with others. But, as in all the five cases in the asylum, it
was attended with, or followed by, a fatuous idiotic condition ; they were
naturally enough assumed to be cause and effect.
STATEMENT No. VIII.—Specifies the bodily ailments from which the luna-
tics suffered.
As usual, ague, bowel complaints and debility comprise nearly the whole.
The daily average number sick was only 7, against 14 for the year preceding.
Since the present building was occupied, the lunatics have improved
steadily in health year by year. Work in the garden too, introduced in 1875,
seems to have contributed not a little to this result. As in 1875, only 2 died
during the year under review.
STATEMENT No. IX.—The Cash Account shows that the total expenditure
amounted to Rs. 10,440, against Rs. 10,159 for the year preceding, or Rs. 78
per man per annum, for all charges, against Rs. 77 for the year preceding.
This increase is due to contingencies, which were Rs. 1,234, against Rs. 420
for 1875 ; being an increase of Rs. 814, incurred in completing the Deputy
Superintendent's house, which represents a saving on account of allowance for
house-rent of Rs. 180 per annum ; and also on account of the new well sunk
this year by the lunatics at a cost to Government of Rs. 760, whereas the work
is valued by the Department of Public Works at Rs. 1,564 at the local market
rates.
There was a reduction in the cost of Establishment on account of the saving
in house-rent above referred to.
Diet was more, because the daily average number to be fed was 133, against
132 for 1875, and also because of the rise in prices of cereals towards the end of
the year, in consequence of exportation towards the famine districts of the
Bombay Presidency.
The expenditure under the head of clothing was only Rs. 122,—cost of
" saries" for the females.
The clothing purchased in 1875 was sufficient for last year.
STATEMENT No. X.—Shows no change from the year preceding.
STATEMENT No. XI. —107 out of 133 lunatics were employed, and did some
work daily,—not much of course ; in no instance indeed in which a daily wage
could be fixed for it.
All the figures in this Statement are based on the actual market value of the
work done as appraised by the Department Public Works or Bazar rates ; no
daily rate of wages can be given, as the lunatics work so very intermittently,—
only the actual out-turn is valued, and the expenditure deducted.