ANNUAL REPORT ON LUNATIC ASYLUMS.
9
The following table shows the results of weighments in the other two
asylums :—
Asylums.
Of those treated during the
year 1895.
Of those admitted during
the year.
Of thoBe discharged during
the year.
Aggregate weight on 1st January
1895 in pounds.
Aggregate weight on 31st De-
cember 1895.
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Calicut
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The Superintendent is required to see the following classes of patients the day
after they have been weighed :—
(1) Those who have lost three pounds since the last preceding weight.
(2) Those who have lost more than seven pounds since first admission.
(3) Those who have been loosing weight in small amount for more than
three successive weighment periods.
(4) Those who have lost weight as compared with their greatest weight
since admission.
(/) Clothing.—In the Vizagapatam Asylum each inmate is provided with two
suits of clothing ; for males, jackets, breaches, caps and longooties ; and for females,
a cloth six yards long. For bedding they are provided with a coir mat, date mat,
pillow and cumbly each.
In the Madras Asylum the Superintendent reports that the clothing has been
sufficient and good. Cotton materials are used throughout the year and woollen
cumblies at night from October to March. The sick and the feeble among the
European inmates get a flannel banian, and the natives a woollen jersey. This last
item has been introduced newly during the year and the Superintendent reports
that it has served the purpose very well. There is another class of insanes who
will not tolerate any kind of clothing and the only way, the Superintendent says, of
keeping them warm is by building twenty single rooms which can be kept warm
by a system of hot water pipes. This has been recommended by the Sanitary
Commissioner but I do not think the necessity for it has been clearly made out. In
the Calicut Asylum each inmate gets three suits of clothing, and during the
monsoon those in feeble health get cumbly jackets; the clothing used was of the
asylum manufacture.
(g) Industries and. Employments.—In the Vizagapatam Asylum the industries
remained the same as in the last year, viz., cloth weaving, tape making, garden and
farm work, cleaning and pounding grains, &c, with the addition of tin work
"which was commenced during the year under report. Seventy-four 'per cent, of
the inmates were employed throughout the year. The hours of labour were from
7 to 10 A.M. and 2 to 5 P.M. In the Madras Asylum weaving of cloth and the
cultivation of vegetables formed the chief employments ; Rs. 738 was realised by
the sale of asylum manufactured cloths. Of minor industries there have been
straw hat making and mat plaiting. The oakum picking, which was commenced in
the year previous and which formed a very suitable employment for the weakly
insanes, was stopped in April 1895, as the officer in charge of the Madras Arsenal
arranged to have the work done by military prisoners at Bangalore free of wages
and there was no other demand for it. The insanes were employed in the kitchen
in the preparation of grain, in the laundry, in the smithy, as tailors, and some were
employed as orderlies; 09*51 per cent, of the asylum population were employed
throughout tho year which is good, considering that the average daily sick was 89
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