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5. Statement No. II. is the return of criminal lunatics. On 1st January 1885
there remained 90 males and 4 females, 18 males and 2 females were admitted,
making a total of 108 males and 6 females; 114 criminals confined as compared
with 116 in the previous year. Of these, 16, all males, were discharged, 7 males
died, leaving 85 males and 6 females, total 91, in confinement at the end of the
year. The daily average strength was 85.5 males, 4.7 females, total 90.2, against
87.6 in the year 1884.
6. Statement No. III. shows the religion, sex and residence of patients admit-
ted during the year. Of the 237 patients admitted 94 were Christians, including
91 Europeans and 3 natives, 77 were Hindus, 59 Mahomedans, six Pársis and one
of another caste. The majority of the Europeans admitted are soldiers and are
received from all parts of India; the natives are admitted from various parts of
the Presidency.
7. Statement No. IV. gives the occupation of the patients admitted. Euro-
pean soldiers furnish the greatest number of admissions, 79, then servants, labourers,
&c. 42, beggars, mendicants and fakirs 30, cultivators 19, and merchants, &c. 12.
In fourteen cases the occupation is returned as unknown.
8. Statement No. V. shows the ages of patients admitted according to sex.
Under 20 there were 10 males and 1 female, between the ages of 20 and 40 there
were 180 males and 13 females, from 40 to 60 years 27 males and 4 females, and
upwards of 60 one of each sex.
9. Statement No. VI. gives the types of insanity among the asylum popula-
tion, and the following table shows the numbers admitted, recovered, improved and
the death in each form of insanity :—
Acute mania ... ... ...
Chronic mania ... ... ...
Melancholia ... ... ...
Acute dementia ... ... ...
Chronic dementia ... ...
Paralysis of the insane ... ...
Idiocy ... ... ... ...
Imbecility ... ... ...
Mania with epilepsy ... ...
Dementia
do. ... ...
Amentia
do. ... ...
Total ...
Remained.
204
158
42
67
151
...
16
15
4
3
2
662
Admitted.
124
21
39
14
29
1
1
3
4
...
1
237
Total.
328
179
81
81
180
1
17
18
8
3
3
899
Recovered.
46
11
3
2
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
63
Improved.
51
13
41
4
24
...
1
2
1
...
...
137
Died.
12
9
2
6
16
1
...
1
...
...
1
48
10. Statement No. VII. gives the alleged causes of insanity among the asylum
population. Of the 899 cases a cause is given in 415 and is unknown in 484.
Physical causes account for 344 and moral causes 71 cases. Excess in the use of
gánja is credited with 139 cases, of spirits with 48 and opium with 11. In 21
cases fever is the alleged cause, in 22 epilepsy, in 7 injury to the head, in 10
destitution, 6 syphilis, in 3 each meningitis and climate, in one each child-birth,
uterine disorder, sexual excess and old age, in 14 sunstroke, in 10 masturbation,
in 21 heredity, in 10 the disease was congenital, and in 15 previous attacks were
alleged. Of moral causes, 52 cases are attributed to grief, 2 to anger, 4 to fear,
8 to religion, 3 to jealousy and 1 each to study and anxiety. The following are,
so far as can be ascertained, the causes of insanity of criminal lunatics charged
with crimes of violence :—
Gánja
...
...
Opium ... ...
Fever ... ...
Epilepsy ... ...
Hereditary ...
10
1
1
2
1
Congenital ... ..
Grief ... ... ...
Religion ... ... ...
Jealousy ... ...
Unknown
...
...
1
2
1
1
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11. In Statement No. VIII. we have the diseases other than insanity for
which the patients were treated in the asylum hospitals with the results. At the
beginning of the year there remained in hospital 67 patients, 215 were admitted,
making a total treated of 282 ; of these 151 were discharged cured, eight were