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Cash Account of the Lunatic Asylums of the Bombay Presidency for the year 1878.
RECEIPTS.
Items.
Received from Treasury.
Received from Paying Pa-
tients.
Value of Articles received
from Manufacture Depart-
ment.
Do. from Garden Produce
and Labour.
Total ..
Amount.
Rs.
1,00,449
10,207
972
708
1,12,337
a.
9
8
2
4
8
p.
10
5
1
7
11
EXPENDITURE.
Items.
Establishment .. ..
Diet
..
..
..
..
Clothing .. .. ..
Bazaar Medicines .. ..
Contingencies
..
..
..
Remitted to Treasury on ac-
count of Paying Patients ..
Do.
do. of Garden
Produce .. .. ..
Total ..
Cash,
Expenditure.
Rs.
41,918
43,538
3,434
497
11,072
10,207
1,669
1,12,337
a.
5
1
6
1
6
8
10
8
p.
8
9
4
11
2
5
8
11
Value of
Articles
received
from Manu-
facture
Department.
Rs. a. p.
. .
. .
. .
. .
. .
. .
. .
. .
Total.
Rs.
41,918
43,538
3,434
497
11,072
10,207
1,669
1,12,337
a.
5
1
6
1
6
8
10
8
p.
8
9
4
11
2
5
8
11
Annual
Gross Cost
per Head.
Rs.
70
73
5
0
18
a.
8
4
12
13
10
p.
8
4
5
4
2
. .
. .
169 1 1
(149 0 11 Net).
Net Cost per Head.
The amount received from the Treasury was Rs. 1,00,449-9-10, but from
this must be deducted Rs. 11,877-3-1, the sum remitted to the Treasury on
account of receipts from paying patients, garden produce, &c., thus making the
net cost to Government Rs. 88,572-6-9, or Rs. 764-5-1 more than in the preceding
year. The higher price of provisions is mainly responsible for the increased
expenditure. An increase has also occurred under the heads of clothing and
contingencies, but there has been a decrease in the items of establishment and
bazaar medicines. The sum remitted to the Treasury on account of paying
patients was Rs. 10,207-8-5, and for garden produce, &c., Rs. 1,669-10-8, or an
increase of Rs. 3,470-9-6 on the one and a decrease of Rs. 646-14-3 on the other,
as compared with the figures for the year previous. The net cost per head in
each asylum for the past two years, together with the
average net cost and average daily strength, is shown
in the following table:—
Colába ... ... ... ...
Poona ... ... ... ...
Dhárwár ... ... ... ...
Ahmedabad ... ... ...
Hyderabad
...
...
...
Average Cost ... ... ...
Average Daily Strength ... ...
1878.
Rs.
„
„
„
„
Rs.
170
155
213
121
108
149
8
14
13
8
0
0
0
8
4
4
6
11
594.2
1877.
Rs.
„
„
„
„
Rs.
177
133
216
108
100
146
4
8
10
4
10
9
7
1
2
0
11
10
598.9
The increase at Poona is chiefly due to the larger payments for water, and
that at Ahmedabad and Hyderabad to the higher cost of provisions.
Establishments.
14. Statement No. 10 give the details regarding the sanctioned establish-
ment of the asylums. The total monthly cost amount-
ed to Rs. 3,313-8-0, or a decrease, as compared with
last year, of Rs. 141-8-0. This is due to the smaller salary of the new Apothe-
cary at Colába, and to the abolition of the post of Steward at the same asylum.
Manufactures.
Number of Insanes employed.
15. In Statement No. 11 are shown the receipts and expenditure on account
of manufactures. The total credit for the year amounts
to Rs. 3,947-2-11, or a decrease on the previous years
total credit of Rs. 483-7-8. The excess profit comes to Rs. 1,371-12-1, as com-
pared with Rs. 2,396-3-2 in 1877. In the following table a comparison is made of
the daily average number of insanes employed in each
asylum during the past two years. It is only at Colába
that an increased number have been employed. Employment however appears
to have been resorted to in all the asylums as far as practicable:—