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ANNUAL REPORT ON LUNATIC ASYLUMS.
Hospital Assistants, as may be found most convenient, subject always to the sanc-
tioned number of each class not being exceeded vide G.O., No. 2030, Judicial,
dated 12th October 1895.
(2) Nursing Establishment.—The proposal in this connection was modified
in the above order thus :—
(a) That the matron on Rs. 60 a month should be given a ration allowance
Rs. 15 a month.
(6) Sanctioned the entertainment of three nurses temporarily on Rs. 40,
80 and 20 a month with a ration allowance of Rs. 15 a month each pending the
settlement of the question of the establishment required in the Lunatic Asylums
raised by the Government of India embodied in G.O., No. 860, Judicial, dated
26th April 1895 which was referred to me for my opinion. I submitted a report
in my letter No. 536 T, dated 3rd August 1895.
(3) Hospital Staff.—My proposals regarding the entertainment of a special
staff of attendants and toties, and also a special hospital kitchen establishment, was
directed to lie over until the Government of India has dealt with the general
question, but the recommendation made by me for the abolition of the appoint-
ments of two night watchmen on Rs. 8 each a month on duty in the male
hospital was sanctioned.
(4) Store-keeping Establishment.—The proposal regarding the dispensation
of the services of two lascars on Rs. 8 each a month was also sanctioned in the
same order.
(5) Accommodation for the third Apothecary and two European Attendants.—-In
my letters No. 544, dated 16th October 1894, and No. 642, dated 5th December
1894, I proposed that accommodation should be provided by building quarters for
the third apothecary and for the two European attendants. In the order under
reference, Government remarked that, as sanction was accorded for the sub-
stitution of a Hospital Assistant for the third Apothecary, there was no need for
the construction of quarters for the latter, and it refused sanction to the grant
of a conveyance allowance for him from the date of his appointment until the date
of his transfer elsewhere; but sanction was given to house the new Hospital
Assistant in a block of buildings known as the " three rooms" after certain altera-
tions had been carried out. As regards the accommodation required for the two
European attendants I proposed in my letter No. 17, dated 14th January 1895, to
house them in existing buildings, if sanction is given to the proposal to construct
a new house for the Superintendent; Government ordered, thereon, that pending
the settlement of the question of building quarters outside the Asylum for the
Superintendent the two attendants will continue receiving the house-rent which
they are now drawing.
(6) Pay of the Superintendent and accommodation for that officer.—I recom-
mended that the pay of the Superintendent should be fixed at Rs. 700-50,-1,400
and that he should be provided with quarters outside the Asylum compound in
order to secure him from the annoyance inseparable from the occupation of a house
situated in the immediate neighbourhood of the buildings occupied by the inmates
of the institution.
Government in the above order directed that the question of increasing the
Superintendent's pay must lie over, until the disposal of the general question raised
by the Government of India regarding the management of the Lunatic Asylums.
As regards separate accommodation for the Superintendent, recommended in
my letter No. 17, dated 14th January 1895, Government directed the Public Works
Department to arrange for the preparation of plans and estimate in accordance with
the design prepared by the Consulting Architect for tho house of the Warden of the
Victoria Hostel.
(7) Hospital accommodation.—In my letter No. 2 T, dated 9th April 1895, I
recommended that the present hospital for males situated in tho old criminal
enclosure should be enlarged by breaking down the wall which separates it from tho
noisy enclosure and utilising the buildings situated therein for hospital purposes,
and further I proposed (a) to construct an additional block so as to accommodate
twelve beds and to provide also a day-room for the nurses on duty, a store-room and
a small room fitted with a stove and boiler for special cooking purposes somewhere