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12. Some minor alterations and additions have been asked for, as a new
latrine, servants' quarters, remodelling the Deputy Superintendent's house, and
the roof of the cells, with a few other minor matters : these put out of hands, the
Asylum will be in very good order.
STATEMENT II.
13. The number of criminal lunatics admitted is the largest that has been
yet shown, viz. eighteen; of these, ten males and two females were admitted from
Berar, and six in all from the Central Provinces. Their offences were these :
four Berar males were accused of murder, four of mischief, one of theft and one
of house-trespass, with one female accused of murder, and one of theft. Of those
who came from the Central Provinces, two males were accused of murder, one of
cattle stealing, one of house-trespass, and one of petty theft ; one woman was
accused of house-trespass. The three re-admissions have been before referred to,
see paragraph 3.
14. Of the six discharged or transferred, two were sent to the Nagpur
Jail, three for trial, and one was made over to his friends on expiry of sentence ;
there remained 38 males and four females at the close of the year.
STATEMENT III.
15. As at Jubbulpore, so it is here : the majority come from large centres ;
Nagpur district furnished ten.
STATEMENT IV.
16. Cultivators and laborers comprise more than one-third of those admit-
ted. Those whose previous occupation was not known, with beggars, regarding
whose former occupation nothing was known also, numbered exactly one-third ;
and the remainder comprise fourteen different callings.
STATEMENT
VI.
17. It is probable that had my predecessor remained in office, he would
have found it necessary to alter some of the types of insanity ; these we know
change; acute cases settle down to chronic, and so forth. I have studied very
carefully the cases of those remaining over from 1883 during the past year,
and have found it necessary to make some changes ; these with the large
number of admissions show totals differing in no great respect from those for
Jubbulpore as regards some of the types. Dr. Rice explains that all his idiots
were transferred from Nagpur some years ago, which accounts for the large
number there and their absence here. The type moreover is not in every case
so clearly defined as laid down in books, and the matter is not easily settled off-
hand in some cases ; recoveries from acute mania are most numerous.
STATEMENT VII.
18. The causes of insanity in many cases can only be guessed at by trans-
mitting officers, and in the case of unknown wanderers must remain undiscov-
ered. The statement is however prepared as faithfully as it is possible to do so.
Ganja smokers are those best dealt with ; deprivation of the drug with the use
of medicines known to be useful in such cases soon bring about improvement.
19. Epilepcics are unsatisfactory cases; of those in the Asylum two died,
one whilst in what is termed "a fit" of the disease, the man was asphyxiated
owing to the severity of the attack. Bromide of potassium in such cases is
disappointing.
STATEMENT VIII.
20. Many of these people never complain when ill, they carl themselves
up in a blanket and refuse food, or they attempt to work without appearing to
be aware that they are ill: a close watch over them is therefore necessary in