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" asylum; they were harmless, there was no prospect of improvement in
under these circumstances they ought to have been entered as " not improved."
Deaths.
5. In the Nagpur asylum, 7 males and one female died during 1879, whereas
in 1878, though the total number was the same, the pro-
portion of males to females was exactly the reverse.
The daily average sick increased from 5.19 to 5.42.
In the Jubbulpore asylum, there have been 4 less deaths, 5* against 9 ; and
* 3 males.
2 females.
the daily average sick decreased from 4.6 to 3.44.
Remaining.
6. The number of inmates at close of 1879 in the
two asylums was:—
Nagpur ...
Jubbulpore ...
Males.
93
91
Females.
29
34
Total.
122
125
but the daily average strength has fallen off in both the institutions, the reduc-
tion in the Jubbulpore asylum from 134.19 to 121 being marked.
Overcrowding.
7. The highest number confined on any one night in the year was —
at Nagpur ...
at Jubbulpore ...
128
146
and as accommodation was available in the Nagpur asylum for 155, and in the
Jubbulpore asylum for 161, there was no overcrowding on any day.
Statement II.—Criminal Lu-
natics.
Admissions.
8. In the Nagpur asylum, 6 criminal lunatics (5 males and 1 female)
were admitted, and one (Dina, whose case has been allud-
ed to above) was re-admitted. In the Jubbulpore asylum
only one man was admitted. Of the 5 men admitted in the
Nagpur asylum, 2 were charged with murder; one from Bhandara district for having
killed his wife, through an access of religious frenzy; and the other from Balaghat, for
having murdered his child, 2 years old, for no apparent reason. Both these cases
will be found mentioned in the concluding portion of paragraph 15 of the Police
Administration report for last year; of the remaining three, one, a Muhammadan,
named Madhukhan, was admitted on his shamming madness before the Magis-
trate, while being tried for having wounded his mother with a sword. He was
discharged, the mother having refused to prosecute him further. The other two
were accused, one of theft and the other of criminal house-trespass. The sixth
lunatic (a woman named Sahodra charged with theft) had to be discharged, as
she showed no signs of insanity during the period she had been confined in the
asylum. One man (named DeLima) admitted into the Jubbulpore asylum, was
convicted of attempting to up-set a railway train, by putting a large stone on the
rails. His transfer was sanctioned in your letter No. 4313-231, dated 28th
October 1879. The man shown as having been re-admitted is one of the two who
had been sent to Saugor for identification and re-admitted on their return, as
stated in paragraph 3 above.
Discharges.
9. Three males and one female from the Nagpur asylum, and 6 males
from the Jubbulpore asylum, were discharged during
the year under report. Of the three men shown as hav-
ing been discharged from the Nagpur asylum, one was Dina and the other
Madhukhan, whose cases have been mentioned above. The third, a Gond, named
Lalu, from Chanda, escaped, though an old inmate of the asylum and had always
been considered harmless and quiet. Two officials who were responsible for
Lalu's escape were punished.
The female lunatic discharged was Mussamut Sahodra, referred to in the
preceding paragraph.
Of the six men shown as discharged in the Jub-
bulpore return, three were transferred to the list of non-criminal luna-
tics, under Section 31 of Act V of 1871 ; one was discharged as cured, and
two absconded. The one discharged as cured was a prisoner in the Jubbulpore
Central jail, having been sentenced to 2½ years' imprisonment for house-breaking