3
to intoxicants, 32 to fever, 27 to epilepsy, 12 to masturbation, 16 to destitution,
10 each to injury to head and previous attack. The disease was hereditary in
43 and congenital in 14. Of moral causes grief is the alleged cause in 63,
anger in 11, fear in 8, religion in 5, loss of money in 2 and jealousy in 1.
Among the criminal insanes charged with crimes of violence the following are
the alleged causes of insanity :—
Gánja smoking ...
Opium eating ...
Spirit drinking ...
Fever ... ...
Puerperal fever ...
Epilepsy ... ...
11
2
3
3
1
1
Injury ... ... ...
Hereditary ... ...
Grief ... ...
Anger ... ...
Religion ... ...
Jealousy ... ...
1
5
1
2
1
1
Unknown
...
... 53
Statement No. VIII is a return of the sick (for other diseases than insanity)
treated in the Asylum Hospitals. On 1st January 1890, 71 patients were under
treatment, 469 were admitted, making a total of 540. Of these 400 were cured,
12 discharged otherwise, 78 died and 50 remained under treatment at the end
of the year. The chief causes of admissions to Hospitals were ague 163, diarrhœa
64, dysentery 38, debility 27, influenza 21, bronchitis 19 and cholera 13. The
cases of cholera occurred in the Ahmedabad Lunatic Asylum. The causes of
death were diarrhoea 18, dysentery and debility 9 each, cholera 8, epilepsy 6,
old age 4, ague 3, remittent fever, dropsy, paralysis, bronchitis and exhaustion
2 each, and influenza, malignant tumour (sarcoma), tuberculosis, softening of
brain, apoplexy, fatty degeneration of heart, pneumonia, cirrhosis of liver,
peritonitis and abscess 1 each.
Statement No. IX is the cash account of the Asylums for the year. The
total expenditure was Rs. 1,29,150 against Rs. 1,28,887 in 1889 and Rs.
1,29,920 in 1888. Establishment cost Rs. 27,210, nearly the same as last year.
and superintendence Rs. 17,270, or Rs. 683 less than in the previous year.
There is an increase in the cost of diet, clothing and bedding, medicines and
contingencies. The following table introduced by the Government of India—
vide Government Resolution No. 3149, dated 9th August 1890—gives the cost
per head of lunatics in each Asylum under the several items of expenditure:—
Abstract of Cash Account.
Colába ... ... ...
Ratnágiri ... ... ...
Poona ... ... ...
Dhárwár ... ... ...
Ahmedabad ... ... ...
Sir Cowasji Jehángir,
Hyderabad ... ...
Total ...
Daily
average
strength
in 1890.
274.2
650
97.0
37.7
102.2
130.0
706.1
ESTABLISHMENT.
Total Cost.
Rs.
25,254
4,878
4,206
2,010
3,852
4,277
44,479
a.
0
8
14
0
0
12
4
p.
9
7
2
0
0
11
5
Cost per
head of
average
strength.
Rs.
92
75
43
53
37
32
62
a.
1
0
5
5
11
14
15
p.
7
10
11
0
0
6
10
DIET.
Total Cost.
Rs.
28,628
2,888
4,615
1,458
4,712
3,729
46,032
a.
3
9
14
3
2
1
3
p.
6
8
9
10
0
7
4
Cost per
head of
average
strength.
Rs.
104
44
47
38
46
28
65
a.
6
7
9
10
1
10
3
p.
6
0
4
9
8
11
0
CLOTHING AND BUDDING.
Total Cost.
Rs.
3,021
275
840
a.
14
11
10
p.
0
5
0
......
508
420
5,067
14
11
13
8
0
1
Cost per
head of
average
strength.
Rs.
11
4
8
a.
0
3
10
p.
3
10
8
......
4
3
7
15
3
2
8
9
10
Colába ... ... ...
Ratnágiri ... ... ...
Poona ... ... ...
Dhárwár ... ... ...
Ahmedabad ... ...
Sir
Cowasji
Jehángir,
Hyderabad ... ...
Total ...
MEDICINES.
Total Cost.
Rs.
1,239
56
53
199
150
77
1,777
a.
9
9
7
6
15
10
10
p.
7
4
2
0
6
10
5
Cost per
head of
average
strength.
Rs.
4
0
0
5
1
0
2
a.
8
13
8
4
7
9
8
p.
3
11
9
7
7
6
3
CONTINGENCIES.
Total Cost.
Rs.
7,107
243
705
234
990
463
9,744
a.
7
4
11
5
4
10
12
p.
10
10
5
2
10
8
9
Cost per head
of average
strength.
Rs.
25
3
7
6
9
3
13
a.
14
11
4
3
11
9
12
p.
8
10
4
5
0
0
9
GRAND TOTAL.
Total Cost.
Rs.
65,251
8,342
10,422
3,901
10,214
8,968
1,07,101
a.
3
11
9
15
5
15
12
p.
8
10
6
0
0
0
0
Cost per
head of
average
strength.
Rs.
237
128
107
103
99
68
151
a.
15
5
7
7
15
15
10
p.
6
7
2
11
1
10
10