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REPORT OF THE INDIAN HEMP DRUGS COMMISSION, 1893-94.
[APP.
Hump
Drug
cases
admitted
in
1892—contd.
Name, race, occupation,
district, age, and register
number of lunatic.
Alleged
cause of
insanity
Statement
VII).
Type of
insanity
(Statement
VI).
State of
health on
admission.
Facts ascertained from the papers.
Asylum history and facts ascertained
from registers and from inquiry
from the Superintendent.
Udai
Ram—contd.
Bhang.
Mania
says:
"He shouts and talks in-
coherently.
Is abusive to those
around him.
He assaulted the
hospital cook and the constable
who was watching him.
He suf-
fers from tremulousness of all his
muscles. His expression has be-
come more excited and at the
same time more drawn and care-
worn." He is said to be wild and
violent, rushing on persons and
trying to beat them.
Admitted, 28th March 1892.
2nd June.—"Has become
more
troublesome of late."
20th October.—Very dirty in habits
and eats his clothes. There is
no improvement; but the man is
now
passing apparently
into
dementia and paralysis.
It is
said that his brother Gangaram
is Municipal clerk at Barhanpur.
He denies before us having ever
used drugs, but he is a
great
wreck.
The Superintendent sees
no reason to asign bhang as the
cause, except the police report.
3. Gulbia;
Hindu;
Labourer; Nimar;
45;
200.
Ganja.
Mania
The statement gives no explana-
tion of the cause or circumstances
of the attack.
The medical cer-
tificate of 8th April 1892 says that
he talks incoherently is filthy in
habits and wanders
aimlessly
about, entering houses and car-
rying off anything he sees.
Admitted, 13th April 1892.
On the 14th April he "says
he
was given ganja to smoke by
some of his caste people.
This
made him mad for two months.
They took him to the
Doctor
Saheb, who seized him and sent
him here.
He answers questions
rationally and
is in fair bodily
condition."
10th May escaped, but was recap-
tured.
Two other attempts to
escape are recorded.
He
does
not appear from the history to
have been insane in the Asylum at
all.
He objected to be detained
in a place meant for lunatics. He
was discharged "cured" on 25th
May 1893.
6. Hari; Bania; Shop-
keeper;
Saugor;
32; 209.
Bhang.
Mania
The statement shows that the pre-
sent attack has lasted two years.
The medical certificate of 28th
June 1892 shows him to be in-
coherent, restless and sleepless.
Nothing is known of the cause
of the attack.
Admitted, 8th July 1892.
On 29th July: "He is quiet and
anxious to go home;
says he
was in the habit of
drinking
bhang
occasionally
and
has
smoked ganja when he went to
Jagannath
about twelve
years
ago.
Has not smoked it since.
Takes about 40 grains at a time"
On December 13th it is recorded
that "there is an improvement in
his mental condition."
There is
no evidence whatever except the
above recorded statement made
by the lunatic that the insanity is
due to drugs. The entry of cause
was made after that statement.
Before us he says that it was in
the Holi 1½ years ago that he be-
came ill. It was due to the bhang
drunk and majum eaten then.
Dhatura is sometimes used to in-
crease the intoxtcating power, es-
pecially at the Holi.
He was
suddenly seized with insensibility
after partaking of bhang.
There
has been little sign of insanity
since he came to the Asylum. He
has been only a little hypochon-
driac and recently irritable.
NOTE.—The total number of admissions in 1892 was—
Criminal
Males
4
Criminal
Female
1
Non-criminal
Males
23
Non-criminal
Females
7
TOTAL
35
Of these, the above six cases were attributed in Statement VII to hemp drugs.
2nd
August
1893.