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Statement No. II is a return of criminal Lunatics. It shows that on the
1st January 1889 there remained 91 males and 10 females; 27 males and 3
females were admitted during the year, making 118 males and 13 females, total
131 as compared with 123 in the previous year. Of these, 8 males and 1 female
were discharged, 9 males and 1 female died, and there remained on 31st December
1889, 101 males and 11 females. The daily average strength was 95.2 males
and 10.2 females, total 105.4 against 96.1 in 1888.
Statement No. III is a return showing the religion and residence of the
insanes admitted into the Asylums during the year. Of the 242 admissions and
re-admissions 56 were Christians, including 35 Europeans, 2 Eurasians and 19
Native Christians; 108 were Hindus, 58 Mahomedans, 17 Pársis and 3 of other
castes. Of the 35 Europeans admitted, 30 were soldiers received from all parts
of India. The other patients were received from various parts of the Presidency.
Statement No. IV shows the occupations of the insanes admitted : 29 were
soldiers, 34 beggars, 26 merchants, traders, &c, 16 servants and 34 labourers.
Statement No. V gives the ages of the admitted. Under 20 there were 9
males and 2 females ; between 20 and 40, 164 males and 32 females; between 40
and 60, 27 males and 6 females; and above 60, 2 males and no females.
Statement No. VI shows the types of insanity, and the following table gives
those and the results of the treatment of each form:—
Acute mania
...
...
...
Chronic mania ... ... ...
Melancholia ... ... ...
Acute dementia ... ... ...
Chronic dementia ... ...
Idiocy
...
...
...
Mania c epilepsy ... ... ...
Dementia c epilepsy ... ...
Amentia c epilepsy ... ...
Imbecility
...
...
...
Observatic ... ... ...
Total ...
Remained.
213
161
54
68
133
22
10
1
1
11
1
675
Admitted.
113
22
50
27
17
6
3
...
...
4
...
242
Total.
326
183
104
95
150
28
13
1
1
15
1
917
Recovered.
32
9
9
1
3
...
...
...
...
...
...
54
Improved.
19
10
19
4
7
2
...
...
...
...
61
Died.
21
16
5
8
13
1
2
...
...
1
...
67
I beg again to notice the classification is in accordance with the old nomencla-
ture of diseases, as the Government of India had not ordered the adoption of
the classification of the 1885 edition of the Nomenclature of Diseases before
going to press.
Statement No. VII gives the alleged causes of insanity. Of the 917 cases
treated the cause is given in 471 and is unknown in 446. Physical causes
number 379 and moral causes 92. Amongst physical causes, 207 are said to be
due to intoxicants, 25 to fever, 21 to epilepsy, 6 to sunstroke and injury to head
each, 5 to syphilis and 5 to sexual excess, 10 to masturbation, 2 to old age, 1 to
exposure to the sun and 1 to uterine disorder, 3 to parturition, 13 to destitution
and 4 to climate. The disease was hereditary in 43, congenital in 17, and in 10
cases previous attack is given as the cause. Of moral causes grief is alleged in
64 cases, anger in 8, fear in 9, jealousy in 1, religion in 7, and loss of money in 3.
Among criminal insanes charged with crimes of violence the alleged causes of
insanity are given as follows:—
Gánja smoking ...
Bhang
...
...
Opium
...
...
Spirits
...
...
Fever
...
...
Puerperal fever.
Epilepsy ...
10
1
2
1
2
1
1
Unknown ... ...
Injury
...
...
...
Congenital ... ... ...
Hereditary ... ... ...
Grief
...
...
...
Anger
...
...
...
Jealousy ... ... ...
Religion
...
...
...
1
1
4
1
2
1
1
54