FURTHER ENQUIRIES REGARDING THE ALLEGED HEMP DRUG CASES OF 1892. 163
Hemp Drug cases admitted during 1892—contd.
Name, race, occupation,
district, age and register
number of lunatic.
Alleged
cause of
insanity
(Statement
VII).
Type of in-
sanity (State-
ment VI).
State of
health on
admission.
Facts ascertained from the papers.
Asylum history and facts ascertained from
Asylum registers and from inquiry
from Superintendent.
Trimbak
Vinayak—
contd.
Ganja.
Acute
mania.
9. Duration of attack one month.
10. Attack sudden.
12. Supposed causes "ganja smok-
ing and abstinence from food."
13. No hereditary predisposition.
16. Subject to homicidal impulses.
Medical certificate dated 11th June
1892 shows "He talks nonsense
and labours under delusions. He
is violent, beating those around
him."
His father states that he assaults
people: tears his clothes and
abuses his relatives:
destroys
walls, &c."
Admitted, 14th June 1892.
Discharged, 31st August 1892.
On 15th August "improving," 31st
August "much improved and
handed over to his friends."
The Sassoon General
Hospital
papers show that "the exciting
cause given by the father is that
he quarrelled with him for not
giving him money and on that ac-
count he remained without food
for three days. Since that day he
is behaving in this [violent] man-
ner. On observation the patient
is found well. He is habituated
to smoke ganja and eat majoom.
Does not sleep soundly." (10th
June 1892).
4. Laxman
Nand
Ram;
Purdesi;
Hindu; (sweetmeat)
Shop-keeper;
Poo
na; 24-89.
Ganja
and
liquor.
Chronic
mania.
FORM C SHOWS—
6
It is staged that
he drinks
country liquor and ganja.
7. Chronic mania.
8. First attack.
9. Duration 2½ years.
12. Supposed causes unknown.
13. No hereditary predisposition.
Medical certificate shows.
I.—He has apathetic restless look.
II—He labours under delusions,
imagining himself a rajah, he
is single; but says he has two
or three wives and four children
His brother states that he is
violent and irrascible without
cause and labours under de-
lusions
Admitted, 1st June 1802.
The Asylum Register shows that on
admission "he talks incoherently,
his expression and general beha-
viour is that of one of unsound
mind, eats little, restless at night
and eyes red. He is ganja smok-
er." There is "no change" until
30th November, when "he is now
quiet and obedient, sometimes
speaks to himself." On 1st Jan-
uary 1893, "he is slighly improv-
ing, working in the garden and
remains quiet"
After that, there is no change.
He tells us he smokes ganja oc-
casionally, but not regularly. He
has smoked for ten years.
He
never took dhatura, though many
others do, with the ganja. He
once drank bhang. He drank
liquor frequently for years. He
made majum with bhang and sold
it. The Sassoon General Hos-
pital papers show nothing new.
5. Paras Ram; Hin-
du; occupation un-
known;
Jalgaon;
32—80.
Ganja.
Toxic
insanity.
The Form shows that the man
"smokes ganja, and is afflicted
with delusional insanity. It is
his first attack and has lasted 7
years. He says he had an illness
seven years ago, but does not
give a clear
account." The
"supposed cause" is not entered.
The medical certificate dated
19th January 1892 says "he says
he is a barrister practising at
Bharswal, Akola, and other places
That he is jailor at Bharswal.
That he is Raja of Khandeish.
In talking he strings together
words, such as European Magis-
trate promotion. &c., without ap-
parent connection." He is said
to have entered several offices
(by the window) without business
and refused to leave.
Admitted, 17th February 1892.
The Asylum History shows that
on admission "he is noisy, irri-
table, refuses to take his food, has
a vacant and excitable look, is
dirty in his habits, incoherent in his
speech." There is "no change"
until 15th August 1892, whence
"sometimes speaks rationally."
On 15th November 1892 he "is
slightly improving, gives answers
rationally." Then "no change"
until 31st May 1892, when he is
"sometimes quarrelsome for food,
otherwise speaks rationally."
He says he used to smoke ganja,
but gave it up five or ten years
ago. He does not seem to know
anything of any old illness.
He
gave up ganja because his rela-
tives objected. He only
took
bhang on Shiwaratri and never
took liquor. He never took dha-
tura, but he mixed opium and
nut-meg and sugar cane juice
with ganja sometimes.