NationalLibraryOfScotland/medical-history-of-british-india huggingface dataset:
Oumastah ...
Gymnast ...
Housewife
Juggler
Lascar
Leather workers ...
Marker
Merchant
Mechanic ...
Mechanical Engineer
Milkmin ...
Nil
Nurse
Oil-anointer
Oil-pressers
Overseer
Pensioner ...
Peon
Physician ...
Planter
Postman
Potter
Pressman ...
Priest
Prostitute...
Religious mendicant
Runner (postal) ...
School boy
Schoolmaster
Sepoy
Servants, menial ...
Servants, ministerial
Shop-keeper
Shop Assistant ...
Signaller
Soldier
Student
Scavenger
Tailor
Teacher ...
Ticket collector ...
Tinner
Toddy.dra«rer
Trader (petty) ...
Unknown ...
Warder
Water-carrier
Weaver
Writer
Washerman
1
5
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
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125
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6
...
1
1
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...
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2
3
6
19
180
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13
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1
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...
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5
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1
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...
...
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4
59
13,
13
' 1
3
4
5
3
2
6
1
2
26
225
13
1
1
2
1
2
4
1
1
1 i
2
1
4
1
5
20
1
143
12
1
42
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185
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14
ANNUAL STATEMENTS OF THE LUNATIC ASYLUMS.
STATEMENT No. V.
Return showing the Ages of Patients admitted into the Lunatic Asylums in the Madras Presidency
during the year 1907 and the Provincial totals for the two previous years.
1
2
3
\>0.
13 43
o
H
4
5
G
•
Under 20 i r ears.
20 to 4
40 to 60.
Upwards of 60
years.
Total.
Name of Asylum.
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ft
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Madras
Vizagapatam
Calicut
12
2
14
12
6
4
1
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2
1
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5
17
25
1
8
34
41
89
6
25
19
2
3
24
39
37
8
6
27
2
9
1
1
10
4
1
1
2
2
1
96
9
20
38
1
16
55
59
42
134
10
36
Total for 1907 ...
5
5
19
86
120
14
38
3
125
180
Total for 1806 ...
17
7
105
146
13
52
...
10
1G6
225
Total for 1905 ...
1
96 27
123
12
49
o
6
143
185
>
STATEMENT No. VI.
lieturn showing the types of Insanity of the Lunatics in the Asylums in the Madras Presidency during the year 1907.
1
a
3
4
13G.
Idiocy.
137.
Mania, acute or chronic.
138.
Melancholia, acute or chronic.
Cases.
Epileptic.
Other forms.
Epileptic.
Other forms.
CO
o
Females.
Total.
to
to
—
•
a,
gl 3
a
fi
I
. 1- j 1
£
i
o
S
fci
=H
1
1
Females.
-.3
CD
"3
3
Females.
!
Total.
MADRAS.
Remained on 31st December 190G
Admitted ...
Total treated
"Recovered
Discharged. Improved...
Not improved
Died
Remaining on 31st December 1907
20
3
23
19
4
23
2
3
5
3
1
4
22
G
28
22
5
27
...
i
1
...
...
1
1
...
...
o
2
3
3
22
2
24
19
5
24
179
GG
245
i
44
172
* One civil female escaped.
VIZAGAPATAM.
Remained on 31st December 1906
Admitted ...
Total treated
[Recovered
Improved ...
Not improved
Died
Rcmaininc on 31st December 1907
CALICUT.
Remained on 31st December 190G
Admitted
Total treated
"Recovered
Discharged.- Improved...
Not improved
Died
Remaining on 31st December 1907
Grand Total treated
32
1
31
3
40
15
55
8
•>
3
42
21
12
33
28
39
334
137
61
I
27
...
88
1
10
2
...
6
70
1
471
2
9
•>
2
1
11
10
1G
79
258
1
1
30
8
38
19
85
...
9
5
14
( M
343
I
1
39
13
52
10
32
1
8
3
11
3
3
...
...
• 5
12
...
2
2
8
52
3
3
72
244
1
1
26
10
3G
2
1
3
e
1
7
27
5
32
6
6
...
...
7
1
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1
1
2
1
3
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1
7
34
6
4)
7
...
7
...
...
5
2
7
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1
...
...
2
2
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1
1
1
2
2
2
1
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...
2
2
4
1
5
25
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27
1
6
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11
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STATEMENT No. VI—continued.
Return showing the types of Insanity of the Lunatics in the Asylums in the Madras Presidency during the year 1907—continued.
C»«PB.
Remained on 31 sf December 1900...
Admitted
...
Total treated ...
{Recovered
Improved
Not improved
Died
Hemainiug on 31st December 1907.
139.
Dementia incl ading acquired.
_____
Ment
140.
il srupors.
Epileptic.
Ofcl ev l'orir s.
DO
CD
_
2 i
Males.
Females.
c
r-
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50
co
I
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2
7
71
22
93
2
2 1
4
1
3
4
11
11
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fi
17
2
I
2
6
6
28 • 110
4
2
6
...
...
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1
1
1
...
2 i
2
2
•>
15
10 |
25
4
5
9
64
17 i
81 |
4
2
6
141.
General paralysis
of the insane.
8
142.
Delusional
insanity.
10
Declaimed to have
recovered or not yet
diagnosed.
Total,
1
.
co
CJ
CJ
IS
a.
d
V
CS
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CO
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a
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fa
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—
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3
n
1
1
...
1
»
2
...
2
8
4
12
2
1
3
...
1
1
...
...
...
••
...
:::
...
8
4
12
•>
2
335
96
124
38
431
162
30
11
07
322
20
117
Kemained on 31st December 1906 ..
Admitted
Total treated ...
'Recovered ...
• Improved
Not improved
Died
Hemainine on 3let December 1907.
Discharged.
15
1
4
19
1
16
4
20
VIZAGAPATAM.
15
19
10
10
459
134
593
45
17
87
439
62
15
77
...
9
1
10
...
71
16
87
7
2
9
.
1
1
3
3
4
2
6
57
11
68
CALICUT.
Remained on 318t December 1906 ... i ...
Admitted
...
...
...
... \
...
17 ;
2 .
19
1
1
2
15
3
2
5
20 |
4 ;
...
3
t
...
1
1
4
...
...
73
20
28
16
101
36
Total treated
...
24
... I
3
4
"'
93
44
137
fRecovered ...
Itischarced. \ Improved
...
LNot improved
Died
Remaining on 31sr December 1907.
...
1
4
1
1
3
...
...
19
...
1
...
"2
1
3
"
...
9
5
6
73
3
1
' 4
36
12
0
10
109
I__tt__il Total treated ...
6
11
117
37
154
4
2
C | ... i ... . ... .
17 1
9 |
2G
2
1 ;
3
~>9?>
222
817
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H
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H
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ANNUAL STATEMENTS OF THE LUNATIO ASYLUMS.
19
STATEMENT No. VIII—continued.
Statement showing the Cash Account of the Lunatic Asylums Jor the year 1907 and Provincial totals
for the two previous years—continued.
Charges—continued.
Remitted to
Treasury on
account of
paying
patients, &c.
Miscellaneous
items.
I 1
Total of
columns 8-17.
1
Book charges.
Asylums—cont.
Charges on
account of
work done by
Public Works
Department.
19
Cost of
printed
forms and
stationery.
20
Cost of English
stores and
medicines.
Total of columns
18-21.
16
1
17
18
I
21
22
Madras
... ■ ...
"Vuagapatain
BS. A. I'.
(Ml) 14,067 * !>
(»)878 15 ii
(<>) 1,188 2 3
US. A. P.
15,820 7 11
292 6 6
377 1 10
RS. A. F.
1,02,673 8 8
9,233 S 11
12,535 5 8
as. A. p.
t 23,560 7 5
t +,332 I 1
1,306 0 5
R8. A. P.
172 2 8
40 5 4
26 6 2
R8. A. P.
636 8 3
101 12 5
RS. A. v.
1,27,042 11 0
ifi) 4,039 5 9
1,31,082 0 9
13,707 11 9
(p) 1,115 12 2
348 5 2
14.S23 7 11
■Calicut
14,216 7 5
. (P)
45 11 7
t
14,262 3 0
1,54,966 14 2
(/}) 5,200 13 6
1,60,107 11 8
1.
Total (or 1907 ...
16,071 10 9
4,480 0 3 1,21,442 7 3
29,198 14 11 |
238 14 2
j
1,086 9 10
Total for 1900 ...
1
16,906 9 10
8,747 o 4 1,14,510 8 6
10, 73 12 7
219 11 2
i
1
649 0 8 1
1,31,164 11 0
Total for 1905 ...
16,500 U 5 |
3,191 1 1
1,09,947 10 8
19,374 () 9
321 9 10
1
1
674 3 1 i
1,30,740 6 9
i
fPaying patients
I Saleot ragi husks, &c
I Do. manufactured goods
{M)\
Do. garden produce
Do. condemned stores
j Unclaimed property of patients deceased
LFine on contractor
Total
( Paying patients
| Sale of manufactured goods
(M)S
Do. garden produce ...
Do. live-stock
^Miscellaneous receipts
RS. J K. 1'.
11,932 8 8
9 7 7
543 2 3
1,504 0 2
30 15 S
27 4 B
20
0
14,067 8 9
344 5 1
216 8 6
181 2 10
36 4 0
92 11 4
f Paying patients
I Miscellaneous receipts
(<>)•{ Sale of manufactured goods
I Do. garden produce ...
I Do. live-stock
Total
RB. A. P.
180 5 11
37 2 0
554 12 6
297 11 10
63 2 0
1,133 2 3
/» [Value of stores remained at the end of the
w 'i year
Total
873 15 9
* This amount does not include the book adjustments on aocount of articles of diet obtained from the Jail and othei departments
separately shown in the footnote under column 19. For the purpose of calculating the average total cost of diet in the Madras and
Viiagapatam asylums, the amount included under book adjustments should be added to the amount shown in column 10 against
these asylums.
t Includes Its. 1,351-5-2 on account of book cliarges in connection with articles of diet obtained from Jail, Salt and Forest
departments. This amount is not included in the total cost of diet in column 10 of the statement.
t Includes Rs. 202-8-0 under book cliarges on account of articles of diet obtained from the Jail and Forest departments, which
is not included in the total cost of diet in column 10 of the statement.
6
20
ANNUAL STATEMENTS OF THE LUNATIC ASYLUMS.
STATEMENT No. IX.
Showing the sanctioned Establishment of the Lunatic Asylums as it stood on the 3lst December 1907.
■
5
9
s
P
2
ladras.
Monthly
wages.
Viz agapatam.
Calicut.
Total.
Establishment.
ti
s
Monthly
wages.
1
1 i
s :
9 :
* i
6
Monthly
wages.
u
9
%
Monthly
wages.
1
3
4
5
7
8
9
i
KS.
A.
P.
KS. A.
1
p. '
1
KS. A. P. |
KS. A. P.
Superintendent
...
...
...
...
1
900 U 0
1
50 0 0 ; 1
50 0 0
3 i,('00 0 0
Assistant Surgeon (senior)
..,
..." 1 j * 170 O 0
...
...
1
170 0 0
Civil Apothecary ...
...
...
...
1 < 185 (» 0
1
186 0 0
First-grade Hospital Assistant ...
...
...
1
70 0 0
1
70 0 0
Second-grade
do.
...
...
1
f62 0 0 ...
...
1
62 (J 0
Third-grade
do
1
§ 00 0 0 ...
...
""
...
1
(50 0 0
Steward
...
...
...
...
... ' 1 1
70 0 0
1
21 0 0
2
91 0 0
First Assistant Steward ...
...
... , 1
30 0 O ...
• •
...
1
30 0 0
1
Second
do.
...
1
25 0 0
...
...
1
'2b 0 0
Clerk and Steward ...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Storekeeper
...
...
...
...
1
40 0 0
1
20 0 0 . 1
21 0 0
3
81 0 0
Writer
1 1
26 0 0
...
1
26 0 0
First-class European Attendants ...
...
3
1G5 0 0 ...
...
3
1G5 0 0
Second-class
do.
3
120 0 0
...
3
120 0 0
Matron
...
...
...
I
100 0 0
...
1
100 0 0
Head Nurse ...
1
80 O 0
1
80 0 0
First-grade Nurse ...
...
...
1
70 0 0
1
70 0 0
Second-grade do. ...
...
...
...
1
60 0 0 ...
...
...
1
60 0 0
Third-grade do
1
50 0 0 ...
...
...
...
1
50 V 0
Native Male Head-keeper ...
...
...
1
15 0 0
1
15 0 0
2
30 0 0
First-class Native Male Attendants
2
24 0 0
1
12 0 0
2
21 0 0
5
57 0 0
Seoond-olass
do.
do.
6
60 0 0
3
27 0 0
4
32 0 0 13
119 0 0
Third-olass
do.
do.
25
200 0 0
6
t50 0 0
4
28 0 0 35
278 0 0
Night Watchmen
G
48 0 0
2
14 0 0
2
14 0 0 10
7G 0 0
Native Ferualo llead-keepor
1
8 0 0
1
8 0 0
First-class Female Attendant
1
14 0 0
1
7 0 0
4
24 0 0
6
45 0 0
Second-class
do.
3
24 0 0
1
6 0 0
...
4
30 0 0
Third-class
do.
6
30 0 0 ...
...
6
30 0 0
Night Watch women
2
12 0 0
1
6 0 0
2
12 0 0
5
30 0 0
Weighman
1
10 0 0 ...
...
...
...
1
10 0 0
Office Attendant
1
12 0 0
1
7 0 0
...
2
19 0 0
Carpenter
1
12 0 0 ... 1
1
...
...
1
12- 0 0
Blacksmith
1
10 0 0
...
...
1
10 0 0
Hospital Attendants
...
...
2
16 0 0 ...
...
2
16 0 <>
Gardener
1
10 0 0 . ■■
...
...
1
10 0 0
Tailors
2
22 0 0 ...
...
2
22 0 0
Barber
1
11 0 0
...
...
1
11 0 0
Cook for European and East Indian patients.
1
12 0 0 ...
...
1
12 0 0
Caste Cook for Natives
1
10 0 0
1
7 0 0
1
7 0 0
3
24 0 0
Assistant Caste Cook for Natives
1
8 0 0 ...
...
...
...
1
8 0 0
Caste Cook Woman for Natives ...
1
7 0 0 ...
...
...
...
1
7 0 0
Watorwoman
1
3 8 0 ...
...
...
...
1
3 8 0
Washerman ...
...
...
...
...
1
8 0 0
1
8 0 0
* Draws an allowance of Rs.«40 besides as assistant to the Superintendent for giving clinical instruction at the
Asylum, which is debitable to " Medical College."
f Includes Asylum allowance Rs. 15 and language allowance Us. 2.
X Includes Rs. 2 as personal allowance.
§ Inoludes Lunatic Asylum allowance Rs. 15 and personal allowance Rs. 10.
ANNUAL STATEMENTS OP THE LUNATIC ASYLUMS.
21
'
STATEMENT No. IX—continued.
Shomng the sanctioned Establishment of the Ltmatic Asylums as it stood on the Hist December 1907—cont.
Establishment.
Madras.
I Monthly
wages.
3
Vizagapatam.
a
P
Calicut.
Monthly
J>
Monthly
a
wages.
0
Gate-peon ...
...
:..
First-olass Toty
Second-class Toties
Toty women ...
Male Toty for warders' lines
Female Toty for
do.
Remuneration for (2) native attendants
for washing clothes at Rs. 2 each.
Good Condnot Pay for 13 Toties
1
1
13
4
2
RS.
A.
P.
8 0 0
8 0 0
78 0 0
20 0 0
12 0 0
8 0 0
4 0 0
13 0 0
RS
Total ... 107 j 2,841 8 0
,
A. P.
0 0 0
7 0 0
6 0 0
5 0 0
Total.
§3
Monthly
"I
wages.
1
1
3
2
RS. A. P.
0 0 0
3
7 0 0
3
18 0 0 17
8 0 0
7
27
323 0 O ! 33
Temporary Establishment (Madras Lunatic Asylum).
Second-class native male attendant
Third-class
do.
Third-class female attendants
Second-class Toties
Toty woman
RS. A. P.
20 0 0
22 0 0
102 0 0
33 0 0
...
2 1 12 0 O
...
• _>
8 0 0
...
...
4 0 0
...
107
13 0 a
370 0 0
3,534 8 0
Numher
Hs.
1
10
4
32
3
15
2
14
1
5
h'Sl
Total
11
70
i
i
I
STATEMENT No. X.
Showing Receipts and Expenditure on account of Manufactures in the Lunatic Asylums during the year 1907 and Provincial totals for the two previous years.
to
Credits.
ARylnms.
Hew population.
Mules.
Females.
Total.
Cash paid into
treasury for articles
sold.
Value of
manufactured goods
made over to
asylum lor asylum
purposes.
Value of raw-
materials in store
at the end of
the year.
Madras
Vizajrapatam
Calicut
334-77
61-17
68*36
Total for 1907
Total for 1906
Total for 1905
i
464*30
449-43
123-26
13-56
30*76
167*58
157-20
439-92
147-48
458-<'3
74-73
9!)-12
ES. A. P.
* 2,056 12 0
T 436 15 4
t 915 10 4
631*S8
3,409 5 8
RS. A. P.
1,889 3 4
335 6 7
598 4 1
RS. A. P.
419 11 7
60 8 9
26 10 9
Value of
iiianufaetur»'d
xoodsiii store at the
end of the year.
RS. A. P.
Value of plant
and machinery ill
store at the
end of the year.
Total credits.
5,822 14 0
506 15 1
006*63
3,622 10 3
5,543 8 4
2,185 5 3
389 14 8
805 13 0
RS. A. P.
329 8 0
100 4 3
263 0 0
3,381 0 11
692 12 3
RS. A. P.
9.880 8 2
1,323 1 7
2,609 6 3
13,812 15 11
587-40
4,332 7 5 i
6,1*'.9 1 11
877 3 1
945 12 0
2,196 13 6
744 It) 9
12,984 13 11
2,899 3 11
763 4 2
15,080 6 5
9
10
11
12
j
IS
14
15
16
17
18
f
Debit s.
Asylums.
Value of
manufactured
eoods in store
on 1st January
1907.
Value of
Value of
raw materials
plant and
in store on
machinery in
1st January
store on
1907.
1st January 1907.
Raw materials
purchased.
Contingencies of
manufacture.
Other charges.
Total debits.
Excess of
credits or
profits.
Excess
of debits or
loss.
Remarks.
Madras
Vizagapatam
Calicut
BS. A. P.
1.504 4 7
109 11 2
582 13 9
ES. A. P.
647 10 2
167 3 10
62 5 1
ES. A. P.
359 8 0
104 12 9
280 6 0
RS. A. p.
.2,340 6 6
224 8 2
826 15 I
ES. A. P.
BS. A. P.
RS. A. P.
BS. A. P.
64 5 10
j
4,916 3 1
4,964 5 1
•
606 3 11
716 13 8
1,752 7 11
856 14 3
ES. A. P.
Total for 1907 ...
2,196 13 6
877 3 1
744 10 9
3,391 13 9
64 5 10
7,274 14 11
6,538 1 0
Total for 1906 ...
2,348 0 5
922 12 9
763 4 2
3,112 2 10
96 0 3
i
13 10 0
'
1
7,255 14 5
5,728 15 6
Total for 1905 ...
2,148 2 2
594 0 3
775 3 8
4,271 0 5
59 9 6
7,848 0 0
7,232 6 5
i
1
•
1
{
Sale of manufactured goods
Do. garden produce
Do. ragi husk
ES. A. p.
543 2 3
1,504 2 2
8 7 7
("Sale of manufactured articles
t i Do. garden produce
C Do. lire-stocK
t ("Sale of manufactured articles
T < Do. garden produce
C Value oT live-stock
Total
Total
2,056 12 0
216
184
36
8 6
2 10
4 0
436 16 4
Total ..
BS. A. P.
554 12 6
297 11 10
63 2 0
915 10 4
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No. 385, PUBLIC, 4TH MAY 1908.
GOVERNMENT OF MADRAS.
PUBLIC DEPARTMENT.
READ—the following paper :—
Letter—from Surgeon-General W. R. BAOWNB,M.D., V.BL.S.,O.I.B., I.M.S., Surgeon-
General with the Government of Madras.
To—the Chief Secretary to Government.
Datedr-Madras, the 26th March 1908.
No.—97/258.
ABSTRACT.—Submitting report on the Lunatic Asylums for the year 1907.
Order—No. 385, Public, dated 4th May 1908.
Recorded.
(True Extract.)
J\ N. ATKINSON,
Ag. Ohief Secretary,
I
■
REPORT
0* THE
LUNATIC ASYLUMS
D? THE
MADRAS PRESIDENCY
FOR THE TKIENNIUM ENDING 1908.
MADBAS:
PB1NTED FT THE SUPERINTENDENT, GOVERNMENT PRESS.
1 (• 0 !) .
From
OFFICE OF THE SURGEON-GENERAL
WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF MADRAS,
MADRAS, 29th March 1909.
No. 63/292.
SURGEON-GENERAL P. H. BENSON, M.B., V.3.8., I.M.S.,
Surgeon-General with the Government of Madras,
To
THE CHIEF SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT,
PUBLIC DEPARTMENT.
SIR,
I have the honour to submit, for the information of Government, my report
on the Lunatic Asylums in the Madras Presidency for the triennium ending 1908.
2. Asylum population and accommodation—Population.—Inclusive of criminals
the inmates numbered 579 at the beginning of 1906, over 71 per cent, being
lodged in the Madras Asylum. Admissions and re-admissions totalled 225, 180
and 225 in the three years under report; of these the transfers from the Lunatic
Asylum, Colombo, to that of Madras in 1906 and 1908 numbered 36 and 20
respectively, leaving 574 to be accounted for locally. The total admitted for the
preceding triennium was 520, and the increase appears to be due to a better
appreciation of asylum care and the ease of transport now more readily available.
Of the total treated there were discharged cured 219 (18*1 per cent.), improved
46 (3*8 per cent.) and otherwise 57 (4*7 per cent.), while deaths numbered
233 (19-27 per cent.); the percentages for the previous triennium under these
results were 21*3, 5*6, 3*5 and 16*73 respectively; the variations being markedly
in contrast owing to 14 deaths from cholera in 1907 at Madras, and the
high death-rate at the same place among the weak and debilitated patients
transferred from Colombo. The daily average strength of the asylums was 625*14
as compared with 593*38 of the last report, the proportion of female to male
inmates being 1 to 2*8 and 2*9 respectively.
8. Ages.—The ordinary age for admission appears to occur between 20 and 40
years, the numbers recorded for that term of life forming 65*4 per cent, of the total
in the period under report, and 64*2 per cent, in the last preceding triennium.
From 40 to 60 years is the next most common period, the percentages recorded
being 23*8 and 24*6 respectively.
4. Religions, races and castes.—There were admitted 103 Europeans and
Eurasians, 56 Native Christians, 355 Hindus, 78 Muhammadans and 38 of other
castes, the proportions being 16*35, 8*89, 56*35, 12*38 and 603 per cent, respect-
ively. In the previous triennium the percentage was 12*50, 11*35, 58*85, 12*88
and 4*42 respectively. Admissions among the first group, which averaged 22 per
annum in the past, numbered 31, 33 and 39 in the three years under report; the
same average was noted among Muhammadans before, but admissions among them
averaged 26 for the past three years. The differences in the Native Christians and
other castes indicate the additional care exercised in registering the former as they
occur among the lower classes.
5. Sexes.—The percentage of females admitted was for Europeans and
Eurasians, 50*49; for Native Christians, 51*78; for Hindus, 16*91 ; for
Muhammadans, 11*54; and for other castes, 34*20. Those figures show a fall
among Muhammadans of 1*9 per cent., due to the increased number of male
admissions; and a marked rise of 168 per cent, among other castes, strictly due
to an increased number of females.
HEPORT ON THE LUNATIC ASYLUMS.
9
to increase in the daily average of inmates as such, and of the weak and debilitated
subjects among them. Clothing and bedding in 1908 cost Rs. 5,470-14-8, the
reduction of Rs. 324-13-11 being due to the lessened demand. For the triennium
the total amounted to Rs. 16,646-9-9, or Rs. 13-12-3 per unit of population ; in the
previous period the total was Rs, 15,323-12-7 and each unit's share was Rs. 14-0-1.
In 1903-1905 the materials purchased outside the asylums involved 16'08 per cent.
of the above total; in 1906-1908 only 12*8 per cent, was so expended. On the whole
the average cost per unit was Rs. 163-2-3, Rs. 197-4-3 and Rs. 200-13-7, for
each successive year; and Rs. 372-6-5 for the whole triennium as contrasted with
Rs. 347-7-2 of the previous term.
35. General—General administration.—The general administration of all the
asylums has been satisfactory. Major Bryson resumed charge of the Madras asylum
from Captain Chalmers on 1st March 1906, and was relieved by Lieutenant
Heffernan on 11th November 1908. The Vizagapatam Asylum was controlled by
Captain Illington until 20th November 1906, next by Lieu tenant-Colon el Pemberton
until 30th June 1908, and by Major Foulkes subsequently. At Calicut, Lieutenant-
Colonel Sanjana held charge until the end of March 1908, and was relieved by
Captain Atal. Some changes were made in the subordinate medical staff at Madras ;
and here it affords me pleasure to record that Military Assistant Surgeon F. F. R.
Carreck, Deputy Superintendent, Madras Asylum, has done a great deal to secure
the welfare and happiness of the inmates there.
36. Establishments.—The establishment at each asylum is sufficient and equal
to all ordinary requirements. A separate staff was temporarily entertained at
Madras during the cholera epidemic.
37. Visitors.—The official visitors for each asylum met every month ; except
that in May 1906 at Vizagapatam there was no quorum, and in August 1908 at
Calicut, the Superintendent was absent on other duty in the district. Their remarks
have been satisfactory. His Excellency the Governor visited all the asylums in
1907. I inspected the Madras and Calicut Asylums in 1906, and all three in 1908 ;
Surgeon-General Browne inspected those at Madras and Vizagapatam in 1906, and
all three in 1907. The Inspector-General of Prisons made his inspection annually.
38. Inventory of stores in stock at each asylum is maintained and carefully
checked.
'69. The Service books of the staff have been verified and found correct.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
P. H. BENSON, M.B., V.H.S.,
Surgeon-General, I.M.S.,
Surgeon-General with the Government of Madras.
STATEMENTS I TO X.
.
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STATEMENTS OF THE LUNATIC ASYLUMS.
Years.
STATEMENT
Statement showing the Admissions, Discharges, etc., of Lunatics in the Asylum
Remained at
the beginning
of the year.
E0
. ' £
S
3
■ 3 ' £
a ! £ O
EH
Re-
Admitted. admit-
ted.
to
n
4)
<i>
10
IS ^ a ■ a •
o s 43 ^ s re
V
o ra co O
a En H a fe H
Total
population.
00
CD
OS
o
EH
Discharged.
A.
Cured.
B.
Transferred to
friends.
Im-
Not
proved, improved.
Other-
wise.
D.
Total.
o i *
En 3
_: co
o l*
EH £
C3
-B
o
EH
to
to
■ a
Died.
SB
O
H
o
g
O
fe
o
H
Remaining
at the end
of the year.
to
00
CD
a
fe
MADRAS,
1908
322 117 439 129 39 168 18 3 16 464 159 623 45 13 58 15 2 17 1 1
2 12
1 |
11373 17 9C
1
34 15 49 357 127 484
The capacity o f the Madras Lunatio Asylum at 60 square feet per European patient equals.
For Males
For Females...
8S>
63
Do
do •
45
do
1 )er Ns itn re
do.
•
" For Males
" For Females...
4G0
84
1908
Total ... 696
VIZAGAi'ATAM.
57 11 68
66 12 78
53i 11 64
The capacity of the Vizagapatam Lunatic Asylum at 50 square feet per Native patient equals—
Mules
79
Females
...
..
...
...
•••
■ ••
•••
•••
•••
•••
•••
••• 17
Total ... yfi
CALICUT.
1P08
73 36 109
1
|
22 5 27
i
3 1
1
]
4 98; 42 140 12 8 20 3 1 4
...
2 4 6
17
13
1
30 3 1
4 78
28
Grand Total 1
lor 1808, *
Grand Total)
for 1907. J
Grand Total)
foriyoo. j
452 164 616
470 167 637
i
428 151 57!)
159
109
154
45
19
55
204
! 158
209
17
16
12
4
6
4
21
22
16
628
595
594
213 841
222 817
210 804
63
46
53
i
2184
20 66
16 69
1
18
6
10
3
6
3
21
12
13
1
7
1
1
3
2
10
1
17 5
7 3
11 1
22
10
12
99
66
75
30
32
20
129
98
95
41
77
lit
17
26
23
58
103
78
488
452
470
16(5
164
167
106
G54
016
887
The capacity of the Calicut Lunatic Asylum at 50 square feet per Native patient equals-
Mules
Females
.. 107
36
Total
143