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43. Yes, as far as is known.
44. Not known.
45. My experience of the habitual moderate use
of any of these drugs is too limited to justify an
opinion.
I do think there is evidence to indicate that
insanity may tend to indulgence in the use of hemp
drugs by a person who is deficient in self-control
through weakened intellect.
No information is to be traced on the medical
history sheets of the regiment.
46. The habitual excessive use of these drugs
produces noxious effects, physical, mental and
moral.
Its use deadens the intellect, and may produce
insanity. In cases known to me where it has
produced insanity it appeared to be the exciting
cause. The type of insanity was temporary violent
mania.
[Questions 45 and 46 answered by Medical
Officer.]
49. Not known.
51. Not in this regiment.
Not known.
53. Not known.
54. No experience of such a fact in this regi¬
ment.
55. Not known.
It is believed so.
Answer No. 225.
20. (a) Combatants—
Mussalmans " "
314
Hindus " "
463
Christians " "
38
TOTAL
815
(b) Non-combatants—
Mussalmans " "
4
Hindus " "
9
Christians " "
3
TOTAL
16
Smoke ganja—
Mussalmans " " " "
7
Hindus " " " "
6
24. (a) Nil.
(b) Hindus
5
25. On the decrease. Men seem to take to the
use of the drugs at a more advanced period of life.
28. About one anna per diem.
32. None.
33. An unfavourable opinion seems to exist with
regard to the use of the drugs. Men who use them
appear to be unable to resist taking more and more,
until the habit becomes a necessity and a frequent
necessity; this dulls their senses, and for this reason
their brother sepoys seem to regard the practice
unfavourably.
39. Yes, as those who eat or drink it generally
mix it with milk, sugar or other food, and its
effect is, according to the native, less injurious
thus.
41. Yes.
42. Vide answer 41.
43. The smell is offensive.
44 (i) Yes.
(ii) Yes; if more than the usual quantity is
taken.
(iii) Those who smoke it say so.
(iv) When first beginning to use it, it does so,
but not afterwards.
(vi) It produces expectorations and loss of brain
power.
(vii) Yes, for a time, but this can be got over.
45. No.
Not when used in very moderate quantities.
It improves the appetite. On commencing the use
of the drug bronchial irritation is caused.
Not when used in moderation.
Not when used in moderation.
I have no recollection of any cases of insanity
caused by the use of the drug.
The moderate use of the drug in those accus¬
tomed to it has a beneficial effect: it improves
the appetite, incites to work and smartness.
The excessive and prolonged use of the drug
causes insanity of the melancholic type, and is per¬
manent in its effects as long as the use of the drug
is continued.
Those who take it in excess find it impossible
to give it up; abstinence from it causes disinclina¬
tion for work, an abnormal craving for the drugs
and irritability of temper.
There is nothing on record in the hospital of
the regiment to prove that cases of insanity have
been produced by its use.
46. The habitual excessive use of the drugs
causes insanity of the melancholic type after long
continuance; before this stage is arrived at, mental
excitement is caused by excessive indulgence,
which tends to insubordination and crime. In¬
tellect and moral sense is impaired, and eventually
the individual is scarcely able to distinguish be¬
tween right and wrong.
49. Not as far as can be ascertained. The
effect of the drug appearing to make a man im¬
potent.
51. Yes; insubordination seems to be connected
with the use of these drugs, as men who use them
are inclined to answer when given an order, or
even strike their superiors.
53. (i) Yes; ganja smoked in large quantities.
(ii) Not distinctly.
54. Cannot be ascertained.
55. It is not known, but considered probable.
Yes.