5
value of vegetables, supplied to lunatics under the inter-departmental system,
which used formerly to be left out of the reckoning. At Nagpur it has for some
time been the custom to buy from a contractor in the bazar and make payments
according to the price current, but Dr. Brake proposes in future to obtain his
supplies daily or weekly from the market, and hopes that a saving will thus result,
as sales are frequently made at rates much cheaper than those given in the price
currents.
Clothing.
27.
Clothing charges have decreased considierably,
the relative cost at the two asylums in 1877 and 1878
being—
Nagpur
...
...
Jubbulpore ... ...
1877.
Rs.
947
680
a.
0
14
p.
6
9
1878.
Rs.
282
230
a.
14
8
p.
0
3
showing a decrease of Rs. 684-2-6 and Rs. 450-6 6, which seems to demonstrate
the correctness of the remarks on this subject in the report for 1877, where
Colonel Playfair explains the reason why uniformity in respect of clothing charges
should not be expected every year.
Bazar medicines, &c.
28. Under the heads bazar medicines, contingencies and gardening, decrease
has occurred. An item of Rs. 70-1-9 incurred on ac-
count of petty construction at the Jubbulpore Asylum
appears this year; and lastly charges for raw material have been brought into
account to square the items of receipt and expenditure.
Cost per head.
29. The annual cost per head in Rs. 86-12-3 at Nagpur, and Rs. 8 1-3-6 at
Jubbulpore ; the figure for Nagpur would stand higher
if we included Rs. 3-3-9 per head on account of English
medicines, the cost of which appears for the first time ; but as this would render
the comparison with Jubbulpore (which does not exhibit value of medicine ) un-
equal, it is omitted altogether.
Statement No. X.
Establishments.
30. The cost of the Establishment at Nagpur, although the numbers of
employéd are the same, has slightly increased in conse-
quence of the reduced Jamadar having been restored to
his former grade. At Jubbulpore the numerical strength
and cost remain as before; but in explanation of the difference in cost between
the Nagpur and Jubbulpore establishments, I have to repeat what has already
been noted in former reports, viz. that at Jubbulpore the fees paid to the dhoby
and barbar are charged to contingencies in the Detailed Bill; whilst at Nagpur
the men are treated as members of the Establishment, and their salaries drawn in
the salary Bill.
Statement No. XI.
Profits from manufactures.
31. The manufactory profits are at—
Nagpur
...
...
Jubbulpore ... ...
Rs.
606
448
a.
10
6
p.
10
6
being an increase of Rs. 394-10-3 at Nagpur, and a decrease of Rs. 7-10-3 at
Jubbulpore over the previous year.
32. At Nagpur the Superintendent estimates the value of the labour of
lunatics employed in grinding wheat and husking rice to amount to Rs. 185-5-11
exclusive of the labour of those employed in cooking, making roads, and on petty
repairs, for which no calculation can be made ; but as an order in force prevents
credit being taken for labour, the above sum cannot be brought into account either
as profits or savings and reckoned against the cost of the asylum.
33. At the Jubbulpore Asylum, the manufacture of nawar and tât was
introduced during the year, and the Superintendent reports that the garden has
been much improved. The amount entered in column 4 of the Statement, repre-
sents the profits resulting from the above industries, Rs. 596 having been credited