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5. The details regarding criminal insanes are shown in Statement No. 2.
At the beginning of 1880, 75 males and 3 females remained, while 25 males and
2 females were admitted during the year, making a total of 105 treated of the
criminal class or exactly the same as in the preceding year. Out of these 5 were
discharged cured, 2 were remanded to jail and 1 ceased to be criminal, his
period of service having expired, he was accordingly transferred to the non-
criminal list, and 7 died. At the end of the year there remained in the asylums
85 males and 5 females—total 90. The daily average strength of criminal
lunatics was 85.4 as compared with 81.9 in the preceding year.
6. Statement No. 3 gives particulars regarding religion, sex and residence
of the lunatics admitted during the year. The total Christian population
numbered 116—males 107 and females 9. Of these 94 males and 7 females are
European, 3 males and 1 female Eurasian, and 10 males and 1 female Native
Christian. Of Hindus there were 128 males and 14 females. Mahomedans
numbered 54 males and 12 females, and Pársis 5 males and 1 female. Most of
these are from different parts of India.
7. Statement No. 4 gives the previous occupations of the lunatics admitted.
Soldiers (Europeans) furnished, as in last year, the largest number, 79. Next in
order come servants, labourers, from which class 50 males and 11 females were
admitted. Beggars, mendicants and Fakirs furnished 60 admissions, merchants
and dealers 36, cultivators 21, clerks 9, and artizans 8. The occupations of 9
males and 4 females were unknown.
8. Statement No. 5 gives the ages of the new admissions. Between the
ages of 20 and 40 there were 197 males and 24 females and between 40 and 60,
63 and 9 respectively. 12 males and 3 females were under 20, and 22 males
above 60 years of age.
9. The different types of insanity amongst the asylum population are
given in Statement No. 6. Of acute mania 135 remained and 170 were admit-
ted,—a total of 305 as compared with 242 in the preceding year. Of these 58
recovered, 33 improved, and 14 died. The total treated for chronic mania were
170: of these 10 recovered, 5 improved, and 10 died. There were 27 admis-
sions for melancholia, while 24 remained: of these 5 recovered, 17 improved,
and 1 died. Acute dementia shows 95 remaining and 43 admissions, while of
chronic dementia 171 remained and 23 were admitted. The recoveries were 7
from the acute and 4 from the chronic form. The improved numbered 26 and
7, and deaths 3 and 8 respectively. Four idiots and 12 imbeciles were admitted,
while 8 and 14 respectively remained from the previous year. Of certain types
complicated with epilepsy 16 remained and 1 was admitted.
10. Statement No. 7 shows the alleged causes of insanity among the
lunatics. Of a total of 913 lunatics, the cause is known in 440 instances. Of
these 380 are for physical and 60 for moral causes. Of the former more than
half (396) are attributed to the use of intoxicating liquors and drugs. To
gánja 146 cases are attributed, to spirits 44, and to opium 8. Fever accounts for
32 cases, hereditary taint for 40, epilepsy and previous attack for 30 each,
destitution for 15, and masturbation 11. Of the known moral causes 46 are
due to grief, 2 to fear, 2 to fright, 3 to study, and 7 to religion.
11. Statement No. 8 shows the diseases for which the insanes were ad-
mitted into the asylum hospitals. The total number treated was 275 against
319 in the previous year. Of these 191 were discharged cured, 3 were discharged
otherwise, 37 died, and 44 remained under treatment at the close of the year.
The chief causes of sickness were malarious fevers which amounted to 82,
diarrhoea (43), ulcer (21), old age and debility (22), dysentery (17), bronchitis (14),
and rheumatism (14). There were 11 deaths from diarrhœa, 5 from old age, 3
each from bronchitis and dysentery, 2 each from atrophic softening and anæmia
and 1 each from ague, remittent fever, acute rheumatism, phthisis pulmonalis,
dropsy, epilepsy, pneumonia, phthisis, pleurisy and hæmorrhoids.
12. Statement No. 9 gives the receipts and expenditure of the asylums
during the year. The total receipts amounted to Rs. 1,12,770-7-6, of which sum
Rs. 1,02,050-12-19 were drawn from the treasury, Rs. 8,898-0-9 were received