3
For Jubbulpore the proportion stands thus :—
Hindus ...
Mahomedans ...
86.96
13.04
statements No. IV and V.
Occupation and ages of
patients.
18. Speak for themselves and do not call for any
special remark.
At Nagpur cultivators were most numerous, and the 4 soldiers are sepoys
admitted from Kamptee and Raipur.
At Jubbulpore cultivators, servants and beggars form the bulk of the ad-
missions.
Classed according to age, 44 out of a total of 53 were admitted, whose ages
ranged from 20 to 40, which is explained to be due " probably to the various ex¬
" citing causes, being in greatest activity at this period which is also the time
" of the greatest vitality." Three only under 20, one of whom (at Nagpur) is
represented as a " distressing case of a boy who broke down under the strain of
" preparing for an examination for school scholarship."
Statement No, VI.
Classification,
19. In paragraph 10 of the report for 1877 Colonel Playfair remarked that
more attention is being paid to uniformity in classifi-
cation, and in the concluding portion of the extract of
Dr. Beatson's opinion which follows the paragraph, it is
noted that " during the last month of the year all cases have been carefully ex¬
'' amined and re-diagnosed, and the resulting changes will be shown in the
" report of the following year." These changes affect the figures shown as
remaining on the last day of 1877, and I have therefore entered them as a note in
Statement VI.
The result of the re-diagnosis exhibits the differences in classification, in the
two asylums, in a more striking way than ever; but beyond remarking that this is
the case, nothing further can be said, as the reports of the Superintendents, owing
to their having taken charge late in December, furnish no clue to the differences
in nomenclature.
Statement No. VII.
Assigned causes of insanity.
20. Shows the causes, physical and moral, which
conduced to insanity.
At Nagpur out of a total of 159 patients under treatment, the causes of
insanity have been discovered in 77 cases only, of which 56 are shown as due to
physical and 21 to moral causes. At Jubbulpore the previous history of 99 out
of 168 patients has been ascertained, 76 being ascribed to physical, 23 to moral
causes ; 82 and 69 respectively are left unaccounted for.
Of the physical causes of insanity the abuse of ganja stands prominent, and
shows a total under this head of 45 and 63 respectively at Nagpur and Jubbul-
pore. Of the moral causes, the greater portion at Nagpur comes under " loss of
money and relations," and at Jubbulpore under " grief and fever."
21. The following remarks, quoted from Doctor Brake's report, are worthy
of consideration, as setting forth the difficulties which stand in the way of reliable
information of the previous history of patients being obtained :—
" This Statement can only be considered approximate and as showing the great prepon-
derance of physical over moral causes.
" The histories we receive with the patients are, for the most part, so meagre that it is
impossible to form any right judgment on this matter. A man or woman is found
wandering about by the Police, he or she can give no consistent account of his or
her actions, the friends cannot be found, are too ignorant to give a reliable account
of the seizure, or the persons sent to examine them are little skilled in getting the