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to make a careful enquiry into the matter and report the result to this office
at an early date.
5. Statement No. 2 gives details of criminal lunatics, of whom there were 105
under restraint against 111 in preceding year. Of this class there remained
92 on the 1st January 1879, and 13 were admitted during the year; there were
no re-admissions. Some 18 were discharged or transferred, 9 died, and 78remained
on the 31st of December 1879. The daily average strength was 81.9, of whom
78.9 were males and 3.0 were females: similar figures for 1878 were 88.1, 84.4,
and 3.7 respectively, so that with a larger Asylum population the criminal lunatics
are appreciatively less. There is no means of lodging criminal lunatics in either
the Poona or Dhárwár institutions, and individuals of this class from those dis-
tricts have to be sent either to Colába or Ahmedabad for restraint.
6. Statement No. 3 gives particulars of religion, race, sex and residence of
the lunatics admitted. The total Christian population number 105 against 92 in
1878. Of these, 87 were European, 5 Eurasian and 13 Native; the figures for 1878
were 84, 4, and 4 respectively. The number of Hindus admitted was 83, of
Mahommedans 63, of Parsis 8, and of other castes 2. Of the total Christian
admissions 6 were females, of the Hindus 11, of the Mahommedans 11, and of
the Parsis 4 or 50 per cent.
7. Statement No. 4 gives the occupation of those admitted, and from it
may be observed the large variety of trades or occupations from which the
patients were drawn. Soldiers ( European ) furnished the largest number, 74.
Next in order come beggars, mendicants and fakirs, from which classes 51
patients, 43 males and 8 females, were admitted. Labourers and servants
furnished 38 admissions, tradesmen 22, cultivators 19, clerks 10, and in 6
instances, 3 males and 3 females, the occupations were unknown.
8. The ages of the patients admitted are given in Statement No. 5, and
from this it appears that 14 of the patients were under 20 years of age, 210 were
between the ages of 20 and 40, 35 between 40 and 60, and 2 upwards of 60. These
figures show little variation from year to year, and they hold with very much
the same relevancy in this country as in Europe.
9. The different types of insanity as classified in the institutions are
given in Statement No. 6. Of those treated 242, 200 males and 42 females,
were for acute mania; 145, 118 males and 27 females, for chronic mania; 58,
49 males and 9 females, for melancholia ; 160, 140 males and 20 females, for acute
dementia; 188, 146 males and 42 females, for chronic dementia; and the re-
mainder of the admissions were for various forms of idiotcy, epilepsy and
imbecility.
10. Statement No. 7 gives the different causes of insanity amongst the
Asylum population. Of a total of 841 insanes, the cause is only known in 434
instances or a little over 50 per cent., and from data so imperfect the difficulties in
the way of drawing exact or anything like scientific conclusions will, I beg to
submit, be apparent to Government. The causes amongst the known instances are
divided into physical and moral. Amongst the former the use of intoxicating
liquors and drugs is the most fruitful. To gánja 140 cases are attributed, to
spirits 47, and to opium 8. Fever accounts for 27 cases, hereditary taint for
34, epilepsy for 29, previous attack for 25, destitution for 19, and the re-
mainder are attributed to various derangements of constitution, and to physical
disease. Of the known moral causes, 55 are attributed to grief, 2 to fear,
1 to fright, 1 to study, and 7 to religion.
11. Statement No. 8 gives details of the insanès who were treated in
hospital. Some 319 patients were so treated during the year, against 599 in the
past one. Of the 319 admissions into hospital, 214 were discharged cured, 9
were otherwise discharged, 68 died, and 28 remained under treatment on the
1st of January, Ague was the chief cause of the admissions intohospital, for which
disease 124 patients were treated, of whom 7 died. Malignant cholera caused
11 admissions, of whom 9 died. Sunstroke caused 6 admissions in the Hyderabad
Asylum, all of whom died. Four epileptics were treated, with a fatal result in
every instance. For pneumonia 7 patients were treated, of whom 3 died. Dysen-
tery caused 16 admissions and 6 deaths; dirrhœa 37 admissions and 11 deaths ;