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allowance of water promised by the Ratnágiri Municipality to the lunatic asylum
at Ratnágiri as per Government Resolution No. 156 C.W —623 of 1889, has
not yet been given, owing to some defect in the laying on of the pipes from the
source.
10. The undermentioned works were executed at the lunatic asylums and
paid for out of the discretionary grant at my disposal during the year 1896 :—
Paving the dispensary in the Lunatic Asylum at Dhárwár ...
Constructing a temporary isolation hut for small-pox patients at the
Lunatic Asylum at Ahmedabad ... ... ...
Fixing presses in store-room for storing clothing at the Lunatic
Asylum at Ahmedabad ... ... ... ...
Providing Bijápur cooking range at the Lunatic Asylum at Hyder-
abad
...
...
...
...
...
...
Providing ironbars to the windows in place of wooden-bars, in
female and male day wards at the Lunatic Asylum, Dhárwár
Total ...
Rs.
45
31
100
160
200
536
11. On the statistical statements appended at the end of the report, I beg
to make the following remarks : —
Statement No. I shows that the total population of the asylums during
the year 1896 was 1,006, or 28 more than in the previous year. Of these, 817 were
males and 189 females, as compared with 804 males and 174 females in 1895.
On 1st January 1896 there remained 578 males and 136 females, 227 males and
49 females were admitted and 12 males and 4 females re-admitted; 59 males
and 13 females were discharged cured, 100 males and 13 females transferred to the
care of friends (83 males and 10 females improved and 17 males and 3 females
not improved), and 7 males discharged otherwise (1 escaped, 1 transferred from
the criminal to the civil list and 1 from the civil to the criminal list, 2 handed over to
the care of their relations by order of the Magistrate and 2 detained under Section
31 of Act V of 1871 as amended by Section 25 of Act X of 1886). 59 males and
19 females died, as compared with 58 males and 10 females in the preceding
year, leaving at the end of the year under review 592 males and 144 females
—total 736, against 714 (578 males and 136 females) in 1895. The daily
average strength was 583.2 males and 140.2 females —total 723.4, as compared
with 717.6 (581.5 males and 136.1 females) in the previous year.
The percentages of cures and deaths to the daily average strength were :—
Cured
...
Died
...
Males ... ... ...
Females ... ... ...
Males ... ... ...
Feamles ... ... ...
10.1 9.2
10.1
13.5
Total ...
Total ...
9.9
10.7
The percentages to admissions were :—
Cured ...
Died ...
Males ... ... ...
Females ... ... ...
Males ... ... ...
Females ... ... ...
24.6
24.5
24.6
35.8
Total ...
Total ...
24.6
26.7
Statement No. II is a return of criminal lunatics. On the 1st January
1896 there remained 97 males and 10 females, 22 males were admitted and 1
male was re-admitted, giving a total of 130 (males 120 and females 10) in all
confined, or 4 males more than in 1895. Of these, 13 males were discharged,
transferred, &c., 11 males and 1 female died, and 96 males and 9 females
remained at the end of the year. The daily average strength of this class of
insanes was 92.0 males and 9.2 females—total 101.2, against 105.0 (males 95.0 and
females 10.0) in the preceding year.