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Mortality
3. The following table shows the death rate for each asylum during
each year of the triennium :—
Bareilly ...
Benares ...
Agra ...
Lucknow ...
Average percen-
tage for each
year.
1903-1905.
1903.
4.69
7.51
7.52
3.06
5.69
1904.
4.10
4.84
5.37
2.28
4.16
1905.
6.05
12.96
8.33
6.75
8.52
Rate fur
four
asylums
1903—1905.
6.29
1906-1908.
1906.
4.88
9.08
16.09
1007.
7.98
10.34
9.06
1908.
11.66
8.58
15.59
closed.
10.02 9.13 11.94
Rate for three
asylums
1906-1908.
10.78
The Lucknow asylum was closed on the 30th June 1906. The
average percentage for each year of the period under report is much
more than for each year of the previous triennium.
Bareilly.—At Bareilly there were 13 deaths in 1903, 12 in 1904,
and 18 in 1905, against 15 in 1906, 26 in 1907, and 35 in 1908. The
mortality in 1906 compared favourably with the former three years. In
1907 there were 26 deaths of which dysentery accounted for 5, phthisis
for 4 and heart disease 3. The number which took place in 1908 (35)
is large, 10 were from phthisis, 5 from pneumonia, 6 from heart disease
and 4 from epilepsy. Phthisis accounted for almost one-third of the
number. Unusual malarial conditions prevailed during the year which
undermined the health of the already old and feeble patients, for of the
35 deaths 18 occurred among patients ranging between 40 and 60 years
of age and 13 between 20 and 40..
Under 3 months ...
Under 1 year
...
Under 2 years
...
Under 5 years
...
Under 10 years
...
Under 15 years
...
Under 20 years
...
Under 25 years ...
Under 30 years
...
Under 40 years
...
1906.
2
0
3
3
3
0
2
2
0
0
15
1907.
2
4
5
5
1
2
3
2
1
1
26
1908.
0
2
1
8
7
4
3
3
3
4
35
From the figures in the margin it will be seen that in 1908 the
greater number of deaths took place
amongst those who had been con-
fined in the institution ten years
and upwards. The large number
of deaths from phthisis in the
Bareilly asylum was commented
on in paragraph 9 of the last
triennial report. The following
are the number of deaths since
1896:—
1896 ...
1897 ...
1898 ...
1899 ...
1900 ...
1901 ...
1902 ...
2
1
2
6
10
11
3
1903 ...
1904 ...
1905 ...
1906 ...
1907 ...
1908 ...
1
6
9
4
4
10
The question of flagging or concreting the kutcha floors was
considered, and a project was drawn up for Rs. 2,229, but the scheme
for flushing the sleeping barracks was abandoned owing to the fact
that the completion of a similar scheme at Benares was followed by
disastrous results to the health of the inmates. The continuance in
the incidence of tubercle points to infection and at my inspection
of the institution in July 1908 I decided that the erection of a separate
block for the special treatment and isolation of tuberculous cases
should be undertaken without delay, and a project for Rs. 1,465
has been sanctioned and only waits the allotment of funds to be taken
in hand. There was no overcrowding in the asylum during the
triennium.
Benares.-- At Benares there were 23 deaths in 1903 the number
falling to 15 in 1904 but rising to 41 in 1905. The large mortality and
sickness during 1905 were symptoms of the general unhealthiness
prevailing in the city and district at that time, and as stated in paragraph
3 of G. O. No. 1236/VI—45D.—8, dated the 2nd May 1906, they were