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18. No alterations have been made in the general management, except the
important one of change in the Deputy Superintendent. Hospital Assistant
Appudassen was found untrustworthy and removed, and the former Deputy
Superintendent, Abdul Majid Khan, re-appointed.
The diet, employment, and amusements are the same as before and are shortly
indicated in paragraph 14 of last year's report.
19. Statements IX., X., and XI. relating to Finance, will, I hope, be considered
favourable. Nos. IX. and XI. have been altered this year, so that comparison with
former returns is not so readily made. From Statement IX. it will be seen that
the receipts in 1881 were Rs. 8,832-4-7 as compared with Rs. 10,241-2-4 in 1880,
and that the expenditure, excluding the charges of the Public Works and Printing
departments, was Rs. 9,515-10-2 against Rs. 10,241-2-4.
The amount actually received from the Treasury, omitting fractions, was
Rs. 8,034 as compared with Rs. 8,952 in 1880; the amount received from paying
patients Rs. 396 instead of Rs. 253, but the value credited to the Manufactory
was Rs. 402 instead of Rs. 694.
20. On the expenditure side the Establishment cost Rs. 5,207 instead of
Rs. 5,467, and the diet purchased in the market Rs. 2,483 against Rs. 3,236.
I have had a calculation made month by month of the price of grain, &c.,
according to nerik and the actual price paid for the Asylum in the open market,
and find that the saving to Government by the latter method was Rs. 216.
Nothing was paid in cash for clothing, and only Rs. 145 charged inter-
departmentally against Rs. 340 in 1880, when blankets had to be obtained from
the Central Jail. The clothing supplied during the year under review was
obtained entirely from the Asylum. The cotton seeds were sown on Asylum
grounds, the crop tended and gathered, ginned, spun, woven and made up into
garments by the lunatics themselves, the services of a carder only having been
employed from the outside population.
Under the head of "Contingencies proper," in the Treasury account I have
included Miscellaneous charges for baskets, pots, kerosine oil, the cost of country
stationery, official postage and garden and farm contingencies, as cost of mote,
of seeds for sowing, oil-cake for bullocks, &c., as well as Rs. 29-12-0, the
travelling expenses of the Deputy Superintendent from Kawardha.
Under the head of "Contingencies of manufactures" are included the cost
of raw material and the occasional charge for carding cotton. Repairs and main-
tenance include the repair and purchase of furniture, the cost of a new weighing
machine, Rs. 84, the purchase and repair of tools and machinery, petty repairs
and construction executed by inmates, lime for whitewashing and road expenses
for discharged patients.
In the Manufactory account are included grain, vegetables, milk, &c., sup-
plied from the farm, valued at nerik rates Rs. 669, clothing valued at Rs. 1-45.
The Contingencies proper include food for cattle, supplied from the farm, as
karbi, kooltai, cotton and other seeds, ropes for cattle, wood for well, &c.
The charges on account of work done by the Public Works Department and
the cost of printed forms are those given by the Executive Engineer and the
Superintendent of the Government Press, respectively.
21. Statement X. gives the Establishment and its cost in detail. It will
be seen that a sweeper is not now entertained under that denomination, though
one is sanctioned. One of the keepers superintends the conservancy arrange-
ments, and it would be as correct to return 1 sweeper and 8 keepers as 9 keepers
and no sweeper. In the former case the ratio of male keepers to males would be 1
to 11.