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STATEMENT No. IX.—(Continued.)
Showing the Cash Account of the Nagpur and Jubbulpore Lunatic Asylums during the year 1882.
Asylums.
Nagpur ...
Jubbulpore
...
Expenditure—(Contd).
From Manufactory Department on account of
Diet.
15
Rs.
435
433
a.
8
4
p.
10
3
Clothing and bedding.
16
Rs.
239
307
a.
6
10
p.
9
0
Bazar medicines.
17
Rs.
...
...
Contingencies.
Contingencies proper.
18
Rs.
182
71
a.
1
0
p.
11
3
Contingencies of manufac-
tures.
19
Rs.
...
...
Repairs
and maintenance.
20
Rs.
...
...
Total.
21
Rs.
857
811
a.
1
14
p.
6
6
From maintenance fund for paying patients.
22
Rs.
...
...
Remitted
to treasury on account of paying
patients.
23
Rs.
326
163
a.
4
7
p.
6
4
Charges on account of works done by the
Public Works Department.
24
Rs.
348
a.
0
p.
0
......
Rates
and taxes on building attached to
the Asylum.
25
Rs.
...
...
Cost of printed forms and stationery.
26
Rs.
10
...
a.
1
...
p.
3
...
Cost of English stores, medicines, &c.
27
Rs.
84
10
a.
12
3
p.
9
6
Grand Total.
28
Rs.
10,014
9,115
a.
12
10
p.
5
10
STATEMENT No. X.
Showing the sanctioned Establishment of Nagpur and Jubbulpore Asylums as it stood
on the 31st December 1882.
1
Establishment.
Superintendent
...
Deputy Superintendent
...
Do.
...
Writer
...
Daffadar
...
1st Class Warder ...
2nd
do. ...
Gardener ...
Barber
...
Dhoby
...
Sweeper ...
Matrons
...
Daily average number of Males ...
Do.
do.
Females ...
Nagpur ...
Jubbulpore ...
Nagpur
...
Jubbulpore
...
Nagpur ...
Jubbulpore
...
Nagpur ...
Jubbulpore ...
Nagpur ...
Jubbulpore ...
Nagpur ...
Jubbulpore
...
Nagpur ...
Jubbulpore ...
Nagpur ...
Jubbulpore ...
Nagpur
...
Jubbulpore ...
Nagpur
...
Jubbulpore ...
Nagpur ...
Jubbulpore
...
Nagpur ...
Jubbulpore ...
Nagpur
Jubbulpore
Nagpur
Jubbulpore
84.32
95.99
23.94
35.40
2
Number.
1
1
1
1
Staff salary.
Do.
1
1
1
...
2 at Rs. 8 per month each.
...
12—11 at Rs. 6, 1 at Rs. 4
9 at Rs. 6 per month each.
2—1 at Rs. 7, and 1 at Rs. 6.
1
1
...
...
...
...
2 at Rs. 4 each.
...
2
...
...
Total
... Nagpur ...
Jubbulpore ...
3
Monthly
wages.
Rs.
250
250
55
35
20
20
15
15
10
...
16
...
70
54
13
6
2
...
...
...
...
8
...
12
...
...
451
400
Proportion of
Jamadars to males
... ...
Male keepers to males
... ...
Females keepers to females
...
Nagpur
Jubbulpore
Nagpur
Jubbulpore
Nagpur
Jubbulpore
1 to 84.32
...
1 to 9.36
1 to 10.66
1 to 7.98
1 to 17.70
STATEMENT No. XI.
Showing Receipts and Expenditure on account of Manufactures of the Nagpur and Jubbulpore Lunatic Asylums during the year 1882.
1
Names of Asy-
lums.
Nagpur ...
Jubbulpore ...
2
Mean population.
M.
84.32
95.59
F.
23.94
35.40
T.
108.26
131.39
3
Average number employed.
M.
9.39
39.00
F.
1.02
15.00
T.
10.41
54.00
4
5
6
7
8
9
Credits.
Cash paid into Treasury during
the year for articles sold.
Rs.
345
575
a.
13
12
p.
6
7
Value of manufactured goods made
over to asylum for asylum pur-
poses.
Rs.
857
811
a.
1
14
p.
6
6
Value of raw materials in the store
at the end of the year 1882.
Rs
30
68
a.
0
0
p.
0
0
Value of manufactured goods in
store at the end the year 1882.
Rs.
...
...
Value of plant and machinery in
store at end of the year 1882.
Rs.
744
24
a.
9
8
p.
3
0
Total Credits.
Rs.
1,977
1,481
a.
8
3
p.
3
1
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Debits.
Value of manufactured goods in
store on 1st January 1882.
Rs. a.
p.
...
71
8
0
Value of raw materials in store
on 1st January 1882.
Rs.
40
112
a.
0
3
p.
0
2
Value of plant and
machinery in
store on 1st January 1882.
Rs.
718
24
a.
3
8
p.
0
0
Raw materials purchased and all
other charges.
Rs.
251
559
a.
10
12
p.
1
5
Contingencies
of
manufactures
viz. indulgences to lunatics as
rewards for work, &c
Rs.
...
...
Charges for work done by the
Public Works Department.
Rs.
348
a.
0
p.
0
...
Total Debits.
Rs.
1,357
767
a.
13
15
p.
1
7
17
Excess of credist
or profits.
Rs.
619
713
a.
11
3
p.
2
6
18
Excess of debits or loss.
Rs.
...
...
19
Net profit as per Memorandum at foot.
Rs.
603
828
a.
4
14
p.
11
8
MEMO. OF ACTUAL
PROFITS.
Profits as per above table, Column 17 ...
Difference of raw materials in store ...
Total . . .
Difference of manufactured goods in store ...
Total . . .
Difference of plant and machinery in store ...
Total Net Profits ...
Nagpur
. . .
...
...
Jubbulpore ... ... ...
Nagpur
. . .
. . . ...
Jubbulpore
. . .
...
...
Nagpur
. . .
...
...
Jubbulpore
. . .
...
...
Nagpur
. . .
. . . ...
Jubbulpore ... ... ...
Nagpur
. . .
. . . ...
Jubbulpore ... ... ...
Nagpur ... ... ...
Jubbulpore ... ... ...
Nagpur
. . .
...
...
Jubbulpore ... ... ...
Rs.
619
713
—10
—44
629
757
a.
11
3
0
3
11
6
p.
2
6
0
2
2
8
......
—71
629
828
—26
8
11
14
6
0
2
8
3
......
603
828
4
14
11
8
STATEMENT No. XI—(in another Form.)
Nagpur Asylum.
DR. CR.
To value of raw material in store on 1st January
...
...
„ value of Plant and Machinery
do.
...
...
„ value of manufactured goods
do. ... ...
„ cost of raw material purchased during the year
...
...
A.—Cost of production of manufactured goods made during the year
(including labour, supervision and contingencies) say ...
„ Cost of work done by P. W. Department ... ...
B.—Interest at 5 percent per annum on Capital Outlay (value of land,
buildings, &c.) ... ... ...
C.—Depreciation at 10 per cent (unless Plant and Machinery re-valued
every year)
...
...
...
...
Total ...
Rs.
195
623
a.
14
11
p.
6
3
......
205
750
141
500
60
2,477
13
0
15
0
0
6
1
0
3
0
0
1
By sale of manufactures—
„ Cash sales
...
...
...
...
„ Value of goods supplied for asylum purposes
...
...
„ Value of raw material in store 31st December ... ...
„ Value of plant and machinery
do.
...
...
„ Value of manufactured goods
do.
...
...
Balance being net loss ... ... ...
(N. B.— Leaving out items A. B. & C. on the Debtor side the balance
is shown to be a profit of Rs. 1,002-13-8 instead of a loss, the
figures in italics are merely a guess.
Amount.
Rs.
402
1,010
40
718
a.
2
0
0
3
p.
8
1
0
0
......
307 0 0
2,477 6 1
Jubbulpore
Asylum.
To value of raw materials in store 1st January
...
...
„ value of plant and machinery
do.
...
...
„ value of manufactured goods
do.
...
...
„ cost of raw material purchased during the year ...
...
A.—Cost of production of manufactured goods
...
...
B.—Interest on Capital Outlay ... ... ...
C.—Depreciation ... ... ... ...
Cost of work done by P. W. D. ...
...
...
Rs.
35
310
a.
14
0
p.
1
0
......
390
250
200
2
5
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
......
888 3 1
By sale of manufactures—
„ Cash sales
„ Value of goods supplied for asylum purposes ... ...
„ Value of raw material on 31st December
... ...
„ Value of Plant and Machinery do. ... ...
„ Value of manufactured goods do.
...
...
„ Balance being net loss ... ... ...
N. B.—(See note under Nagpur. In the case of Jubbulpore the profit
is shown at Rs. 314-8-6.)
Rs.
128
414
112
24
71
137
a.
5
3
3
8
8
0
p.
5
0
2
0
0
0
888 3 1
REPORT
ON THE
LUNATIC ASYLUMS
IN THE
CENTRAL PROVINCES.
FOR
THE YEAR 1883.
NAGPUR:
PRINTED AT THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER 'S OFFICE PRESS
1884.
No.4864a/235
FROM
LINDSAY NEILL, ESQUIRE, C. S.,
SECRETARY TO THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER,
Central Provinces.
To
THE DEPUTY SURGEON GENERAL,
Central Provinces.
Dated Nagpur, the 10th October 1884.
SIR,
I am directed to acknowledge your letter No. 2982-C. C., dated 26th
May, submitting the Annual Report and Statements of the Nagpur and Jubbul-
pore Lunatic Asylums for the year 1883.
2. On the 1st January 1883 there were 109 inmates, (84 males and 25
females) in the Nagpur Asylum; admissions numbered 16, (10 males, 6 females),
and readmissions 4, (all males), so that the total population was 129, (98 males,
31 females). Five inmates (3 males, 2 females) were discharged, and 3 males
are shown as discharged " otherwise ", and four (2 males, 2 females) died, so
that there remained on the last day of the year 117, (90 males and 27 females).
The daily average strength was 113, and the daily average sick 9.45.
Of the three males discharged " otherwise," two seem to be incorrectly
shown. One'did not leave the Asylum, his classification only being changed,—that
is to say, he had been shown as a criminal lunatic, and was reclassified as a non-
criminal : the other escaped from the Asylum, and was, it is said, found in a
tank—(presumably dead).
The corresponding figures for the Jubbulpore Asylum are :—
On the 1st January there were 142 inmates, (106 males, 36 females) ; admis-
sions numbered 21, (18 males, 3 females,) and readmissions 5, (4 males, 1 female),
so that the total population was 168, (128 males, 40 females).
Twenty inmates, (15 males, 5 females) were discharged cured ; four (3 males,
1 female) were made over to their friends in an improved condition ; three
(males) were transferred in an unimproved state ; two (males) were discharged
"otherwise;" and six (males) died during the year, so that there remained on
the last day of the year 133 persons, (99 males, 34 females) in the Asylum.
The daily average strength was 137, and the daily average sick 1.53.
In this Asylum the two who were discharged "otherwise," escaped. One
was recaptured.
3. The Jubbulpore Asylum had therefore a considerably larger population
than Nagpur; it shows a high ratio of " cured", and a very small daily average
sick rate. It is strange that " cured " lunatics should be so numerous at Jub-
bulpore, and comparatively so few at Nagpur. The number is larger at Jub-
bulpore than in any year subsequent to 1878, while the number at Nagpur is
smaller than for many years past. The reports hardly explain the great num-
2
ber of cured in one Asylum, and the small number in the other; but it is observed
that of 15 males discharged as 'cured' at Jubbulpore, 3 had to be readmitted
as insane.
You seem to think that '' cures " depend greatly on the individual opinion
of the Superintendent, and very properly recall to mind, that at Nagpur Surgeon
Major Barter succeoded Brigade Surgeon Brake as Superintendent. There is
weight in the remark, that the individual opinion of a Superintendent has much
influence, but it does not fully explain the discrepant results at the two Asylums.
Speaking generally. the only authorities competent to discharge lunatics are the
Visitors, a Magistrate and the Local Government, and the individual opinion of
the Superintendent is not paramount.
4. The tendency is to gradual increase in the number of criminal lunatics
in the Asylums. In 1873-74, the number was only 22, which has since gradu-
ally risen. On the 1st January 1883, there were 57 (46 males, 11 females) in
the two Asylums; there were 9 admissions (8 males, 1 female), and 5 read-
missions (4 males, 1 female), making a total of 71. Eleven (8 males, 3 females)
were discharged, transferred, &c. during the year, and three, (2 males, 1 female)
died ; leaving on the 31st December 1883, 57 criminal lunatics,—the same num-
ber with which the year began.
5. Statements III., IV. and V. call for no comment. Statement VI. shows
the usual variations in the types of insanity. At Nagpur, the most ordinary
types are chronic mania and chronic dementia. These are also the most preva-
lent types at Jubbulpore, but there cases of acute mania, acute dementia and
idiotcy are also numerous. On the other hand, cases of melancholia are many at
Nagpur and few at Jubbulpore.
Among the physical causes of insanity, the abuse of ganja, as usual, takes
the first place, then epilepsy and sunstroke and fever. Of moral causes, grief
and religion supply most of the Jubbulpore cases, and the loss of money and
relations at Nagpur.
6. At Jubbulpore, the lunatics appear to have enjoyed very good health
during the year. At Nagpur, the chief diseases treated were ague, remittent
fever and diarrhœa.
7. The management of both institutions continues to be economical, and
in 1883-84 each drew a smaller amount from the Treasury than in 1882-83.
At Jubbulpore, the establishment costs considerably less than at Nagpur, and
the Superintendent at Jubbulpore manages to do with a very small proportion
of keepers.
In conclusion, I am to express the Chief Commissioner's acknowledgments
to Surgeons-Major Barter and Rice, M. D., for their careful superintendence
and management of the Asylums.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant.
LINDSAY NEILL,
Secretary.
No. 2982/C. C.
FROM
J. H. LOCH, ESQUIRE, M. D.,
Deputy Surgeon General,
Central Provinces.
To
THE SECRETARY TO THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER,
Central Provinces.
Dated Nagpur, 26th May 1884.
SIR,
I have the honor to forward the Annual Reports and Statements of the
Nagpur and Jubbulpore Lunatic Asylums for the year 1883.
2. During the year the Nagpur Asylum had more admissions (including
re-admissions), fewer discharges (including deaths), and a daily average strength
higher by 5 than in 1882.
3. The Jubbulpore Asylum with fewer admissions (including re-admis-
sions), and a very much larger number of discharges (including deaths), had
still a daily average strength higher than that of 1882 by 6 ; the cause being
that on the 1st January 1883, there were 18 more inmates than on the 1st
January 1882.
4. There was not any overcrowding in either the men's or women's wards
of either of the Asylums.
5. The proportion of " cured" was unusually small at the Nagpur Asylum,
but in reviewing this year's working of this institution, it is necessary as regards
"cures'', and other points settled mainly by the individual opinion of the Super-
intendent, to remember that that officer was changed during the year.
6. At Jubbulpore the number of " cures" was larger than it has been
during the past 4 years, while the percentages of such to strength and admissions
were larger than they had been for many years.
7. The deaths at Nagpur numbered the same as in 1882, at Jubbulpore
they were 50 per cent. more, or judged by the percentage to average strength
they were in 1883 at Nagpur almost the same, at Jubbulpore, 1 more.
8. The re-admissions were higher than usual at both Asylums, the number
(5) at Jubbulpore being the highest recorded during the past 11 years.
This larger number of re-admissions taken in connection with the unusually
large number of cures makes one suspect that, patients may have been discharged
sooner than was wise, and Dr. Rice's Report shows that, of the 5 re-admitted,
2 criminals had a return of insanity before they had even stood their trial, and
1 non-criminal had a return of the disease some months after his discharge.
At Nagpur only 1 of the 4 re-admitted was " after cure" the others being
really transfers from one class of patients to another.
9. Statement II deals with criminals only, and shows that at both the
Asylums the admissions were somewhat fewer, and the daily average strength
somewhat larger than in 1882. The Jubbulpore Asylum had the largest
criminal population and daily strength it has ever had.
( 3 )
20. As regards Financial Statements IX, X and XI, I would only remark
that, the large out-turn of the garden farm and manufactory at both Asylums i-,
from a medical point of view, highly commendable, as it shews that the Superins
tendents have not only employed the patients largely on labour of various kinds,
but that the labour must have been useful, and such as would interest and so help
on the cure of those engaged in it.
21. I make no remarks on increased accommodation mooted by Dr. Rice,
Finance, Establishment, &c, as these and all other questions relating to the mange-
ment of the Asylums are under the orders of the Inspector General of Jails ( by
whom the statements, as they are submitted, have been prepared and forwarded
to me for review) but confine myself to those which are medical.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your most obedient servant,
JAMES H. LOCH, M. D.,
Deputy Surgeon General,
Central Provinces.
( 9 )
Establishment ...
Diet ... ...
Clothing ... ...
Contingencies ...
Medicines...
Total...
Per patient on daily
average strength.
1880.
Rs.
4,982
3,842
127
104
16
9,072
73
A.
0
6
10
2
12
14
2
P.
0
0
0
3
7
10
8
1881.
Rs.
4,832
3,108
352
261
34
8,588
69
A.
2
15
0
12
1
15
8
P.
8
3
0
6
6
11
9
1882.
Rs.
4,763
3,053
307
235
10
8,370
64
A.
10
4
10
13
5
11
3
P.
7
2
0
1
3
1
2
1883.
Rs.
4,689
3,043
188
226
7
8,157
59
A.
11
15
15
11
15
5
7
P.
8
7
10
1
6
8
3
TABLE IX. is the Cash Account. We drew from the Treasury Rs. 7,842-15-2,
against Rs. 8,130 in 1882. The decrease in the cost of management noted last
year—continued during the year under review, both absolutely and relatively to
the cost per patient: which has fallen from Rs. 64-3-2 in 1882 to Rs. 59-7-3 in
1883. The average rates of food substances was about the same in both years.
I subjoin a table giving the charges under the principal heads for past four years.
We received
Rs. 251-9-5 from
paying
patients
against Rupees
163-7-4 in the
year preceding :
the whole has
been credited to
Government
without having
been used to re-
duce the charges
shewn in the
Statement which
strictly speaking ought to be done, especially as they have indulgences in food
and clothing for which they pay. but which none the less adds to the cost of their
keep and so far enhances the average. In this case the actual cost to Government
would be reduced to Rs. 57-10-0 per man per annum for all charges.
Rs 746-5-5 were contributed by the Manufactory Department towards the
above expenditure : namely, diet in the shape of vegetables , oil, mussalas, &c ,
Rs. 494-0-3, clothing Rs 188-15-10
The lunatics this year manufactured all
their own clothing from raw material to tailoring ! Contingencies Rs. 63-5-4.
Well ropes, oil for lamps, &c. were also supplied from the same source.
STATEMENT X. gives the Establishment as it stood at the end of the year :
there has been no change and there is nothing calling for remark.
STATEMENT XI. is the manufacturing account.
To put it simply : —
We had in store at the beginning of the year remaining
over since 1882. Raw material to the value of ... Rs
We purchased more during the year to the value of ...
„
Total Rs.
Out of this we made up ' goods', which we sold to the
public and paid into the Treasury to the value of
Rs.
and made over to the Asylum for Asylum's purposes
as detailed under Statement IX. goods to the value of „
Total Rs.
68
439
507
503
746
1,250
0
14
14
12
5
1
0
5
5
6
5
11
Leaving our
profits for the year's work Rs. 742-3-6 against Rs. 713-3-6
for the year preceding. As we do not sell below market rates we have not a
very good sale for our manufactures in a place like this where competition is
keen.
We are further disadvantaged by so many of the inmates being idiots of
whom it is next to impossible to make anything.
The Asylum was inspected regularly by the Official Visitors : twice by the
Deputy Surgeon General and once by the Chief Commissioner, who, all, expressed
themselves as well pleased with the general management of the institution.
W. R. RICE, M. D., SURGEON MAJOR.
JUBBULPORE,
Superintendent Lunatic Asylum.
26th January, 1884.
STATEMENT III.
8. Of the 20 admissions, the Nagpur district furnished thirteen. Nagpur
City and Kamptee with their population of nearly 150,000 furnished nine of
these. To these centres lunatics sometimes wander, or at any rate they are
there found without friends.
STATEMENT IV.
9. Of the five persons shown in this Statement as beggars, three are so
returned, having been found wandering about without friends, and two were
professional beggars. Eighteen of the twenty admitted were under forty years
of age when received, fifteen being between twenty and forty, see Statement 5.
STATEMENT VI.
10. The types of insanity were, with eleven exceptions, registered by my
predecessors in office who have in previous report given details of those who
came under their care up to the end of 1882 ; of those admitted in 1883, eleven
suffered from mania, and seven from dementia, one from melancholia, and one is
shown as not insane. The man committed murder while insane, he recovered
from the attack, was acquitted on the ground of insanity and transferred to the
Asylum, he is now free from apparent mental disease.
11. The causes of insanity as shown in Statement 7 are given by the
transferring officer, they are not satisfactory, but there is great difficulty some-
times in reaching the truth of those cases, and in five nothing whatever could
be ascertained.
12. This shows receipts minus proceeds of cash sales; these are given
separately under column 4, Statement XI. Owing chiefly to cheaper food, cash
received from the treasury was less than in 1882; receipts from paying patients
were less by Rs. 39-2-11. The details of column 4 receipts are thus made up :–
Garden and farm produce as vegetables,
grain, milk, fodder, seed for sowing &c. ...
Jail made clothing ...
Value of lunatics' labor on Asylum made
clothing ...
Miscellaneous as Jail towels ...
Medicine ...
Repairs executed by Public Works
Department ...
Total ...
Rs.
„
„
„
„
„
Rs.
737
162
107
5
37
315
1,365
1
8
7
2
13
0
0
4
0
3
2
8
0
5
The rates set against lunatics' labor, and the prices of grain, are those laid
down by rule and obtaining in the bazar.
STATEMENT X.
13. Establishment cost Rs. 5,379-5-2, or Rs. 32-10-10 less than the amount
sanctioned : this small amount represents savings on pay of servants not employed,
and fines.
STATEMENT XI.
14. This Statement relates to receipts and expenditure in the manufac-
turing department, and on the working of the farm. The outcome of the State-
ment shows the profits or savings to Government on the year's work to be
Rs. 665-13-5.
Brigade Surgeon John Brake held charge up to the end of June, and 1
assumed charge early in July.This report is therefore brief.
J. BARTER,
Surgeon Major,
Superintendent.