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The eleventh, a Native Christian female, from Nagpur, who has been suffer-
ing for four years from mania, following a confinement, and as at last become
unmanageable at home.
The twelvth, the widow of a weaver received from Chanda, suffering from
melancholia, but without sufficient history for me to form an opinion as to the
cause of her insanity.
The thirteenth, an idiot girl, sent from Chanda, without any history.
The fourteenth, a cultivator from Nagpur, suffering from dementia with a
family history of insanity, two uncles and others of his relations having been of
unsound mind.
The fifteenth, an idiot man, sent from Bhandara, without name or any his-
tory whatever.
Numbers 13 and 15 were only admitted in December, and I have applied
for more information about them.
6. Statement 2 —Of the criminal lunatics, one male was received from the
Nagpur Jail, having become quite melancholic whilst undergoing a sentence of
imprisonment therein. A second is the man Khushal, now quite sane, but detained
in the asylum as a murderer, under the orders of the Chief Commissioner. A.
third is one Nackcherria, released cured on expiry of his sentence. A fourth is
Mahso, transferred for safe custody to the Central Jail. The one female
admitted is Thulsi, of whom mention has been made in paragraph 3.
7. The criminal Mahso as a boy was confined in the Nagpur Jail reformatory
wards for murder of a child in the Raipur district; whilst in jail he murdered
another juvenile prisoner by driving the end of a pickaxe into the boy's back,
For this second murder he was tried and acquitted on the ground of insanity
in July 1876. During the whole time that he has been under observation in
the asylum he has shown no signs of insanity beyond assaulting a child
of one of the keepers, if that can be so considered; but he has escaped twice,
and was caught in an attempt to get through the roof of his cell immediately
after his admission.
He has become a powerful and morose young man, determind to escape, or
to commit another murder, which he believes would be followed by his execu-
tion. He does not hesitate to say that he would prefer being hung to remaining
in the asylum without hope of escape, and is consequently a most dangerous cri-
minal.
7a. Statement 3 gives the religion, sex and residence, as far as can be learnt,
of the patients received: some are Madrasis, but had been residing for some time
in the Central Provinces.
Of the Hindu males, one from Nagpur was admitted twice, and one a cri-
minal from Balaghat was readmitted; one female Hindu was readmitted from
Bhandara.
Only two are Mahomedans, one a male the other a female ; and there is one
female Christian. All these three are from Nagpur, though the male Mahom-
edan is a Madrasi by birth.
8. Statement 4 has to be modified as noted in paragraph 3, since two males,
a begger and dyer, were discharged and readmitted. The dismissed Medical
student was discharged from the school some years ago, and is the incorrigible
drunkard alluded to in paragraph 5.
9. Statement 5 shows that the patients admitted were for the most part
in the prime of life, only one is over 50 years. The female under 20 years is an
idiot about 15 years of age.
10. Statement 6 gives the classification of the patients under the various
types of insanity according to the best of my judgment. It is impossible to say
with precise accuracy when acute dementia ends and chronic dementia begins,
and the same with mania of long standing, but the errors, if any there be, are very
slight and unimportant.