12 ANNUAL REPORT ON LUNATIC ASYLUMS.
One male and one female scavenger were sanctioned for the 75 native attend-
ants' huts (G.O., No. 320, Financial, dated 29th March 1894).
(b) Hospital.—The Superintendent of the Asylum at Calicut says of First-
class Hospital Assistant D. Rajanthram that he is a steady, reliable and intelligent
man and performs his duties excellently well.
The Superintendent of the Madras Asylum has a high opinion of the profes-
sional knowledge of Mr. Cooper, the Junior Apothecary, who has performed his
duties with zeal and ability; he remarks that Civil Apothecary Venkatsawmy has
done his duty satisfactorily.
As regards both the Hospital Assistants in Vizagapatam and Calicut who
really superintend the whole of the manufactures and look after the sick in the
hospitals and the general hygiene and discipline of the inmates, I recommended
to Government that they should be granted a special allowance in October last.
Government was unwilling to sanction the grant of the proposed personal allow-
ances to Hospital Assistants employed at Lunatic Asylums and saw no reason to
reconsider G.O., dated 17th January 1.891, No. 101, Judicial, vide G.O., Judicial, No.
2819, dated 22nd November 1894.
15. GENERAL ADMINISTRATION INCLUDING NOTES ON VISITORS' REPORTS.—At the
Vizagapatam Asylum during the year the official visitors paid twelve visits.
The Deputy Sanitary Commissioner and the Inspector-General of Prisons each made
an inspection and their remarks were favourable.
The Inspector-General of Prisons remarked that " the administration continues
to be excellent and to produce most favourable results. The state of the garden
is flourishing and the amount of work which is done with so small a population
is remarkable."
His Excellency the Governor visited the asylum on the morning of Sunday
the 29th October 1894 and expressed satisfaction.
As regards the Calicut Asylum the Superintendent was away in camp from 2nd
February to 28th March, from 2nd April to 30th April, from 22nd May to 29th
May, from 19th September to 1st October and from 2nd November to 18th Decem-
ber 1894.
The Assistant Surgeon was in charge of the asylum during his absence.
The official visitors visited the asylum ten times during the year. It was
also inspected by myself and the Inspector-General of Prisons. Attention was
called to the covers of the wells and the necessity of the iron gratings being sup-
plied, which were sanctioned in G.O., Judicial, No. 2369 of 15th November 1893,
as an urgent matter; these gratings were being completed in December 1894.
Madras Asylum.—The Inspector-General of Prisons on 7th March 1894
recommended the system of fortnightly weighments and that moulds should be
employed for measuring the raggi. Both these suggestions have since been carried
out under orders departmentally issued.
I made the following remarks when I visited the asylum on the 25th May
1894:—
(a) that the hospital sorely required specially trained attendants, particu-
larly for night duty;
(b) that day sheds were required : these were sanctioned in G.O., No. 1501,
dated 14th June 1894, but funds have not yet been allotted;
(c) that the Asylum Code should be corrected up to date;
(d) that all the subordinates in the asylum should be acquainted with the
rules concerning them.
The revision of this code is being carried out under G.O., No. 1505, Judicial,
dated 20th June 1894 and I hope that after its issue, it will be possible, in future,
to see that all officials connected with these asylums are conversant with all the
orders concerning them and that they carry them out.
10. FINANCE.—The total receipts during the year amounted to Rs. 1,22,458-3-7
against Rs. 1,44,969-12-0 and were from the following sources:—