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At Dhárwár there were 2 deaths as compared with 1 in 1894, giving a
death-rate of 37.0 per mille of the total population against 22.7 in the preced-
ing year. The one who died of influenza was admitted for severe epileptic fits
on the 7th November 1895, afterwards diarrhœa set in with fever and severe
bronchial catarrh. He gradually sank from exhaustion and died on the 25th
idem. In the second case the patient was admitted for dysentery on 16th
December 1895, and though be improved temporarily under treatment, he after-
wards became gradually weaker and sank on the 29th of the same month.
At the Ahmedabad Asylum there were 3 deaths, or 2 less than in the previous
year, and the ratio per mille of the total population was 25.2 as compared with 41.7
in 1894. The casualty in two cases resulted from pneumonia ; one of these was an
old man aged 55, with a weak constitution, who had been subject to fits of ma-
niacal excitement and was upwards of three years in the asylum. The other case
was apparently in a good condition of bodily health, but an acute attack of
pneumonia proved fatal in his case in 10 days. The third was a man who had
spent nearly 22 years in the asylum ; he was suffering from phthisis and partial
paralysis for some time and died after remaining five months on the sick list.
The Sir Cowasji Jehángir Asylum at Hyderabad shows a decrease of 10
deaths over the preceding year. The mortality was at the rate of 50.0 per mille
of the total population as compared with 125.0 in 1894. The causes of deaths
were pneumonia and heat apoplexy 2 each and diarrhœa, remittent fever and fatty
degeneration of heart 1 each. This is the smallest number of deaths since the
year 1885 and was, in a great measure, owing to the year under review being an
exceedingly healthy one. There were no inundations, the rainfall was scanty
and the temperature was, as a rule, much higher than that of the previous year.
The improvement may also be attributed to some extent to the fact that the
inmates have been made to wear their clothing which they do now in most cases
very willingly. They are thus not so much exposed as they were in previous
years.
Statement No. IX is the cash account of the asylums during the year
under review. The heading of column No. 4 of the statement has been modified,
as ordered by the Government of India in their letter No. 26-Medl.-849,
dated 16th November 1895, Home Department (Medical), embodied in the
Bombay Government Resolution No 5470, dated 16th December 1895, General
Department. The total income was Rs. 1,36,200-2-0. Of this, Rs. 1,09,208-7-6
were received from the Treasury, Rs. 13,908-2-10 from paying patients,
Rs. 2,372-5-8 from the Manufacturing Department, being the value at market
rates less cost of raw materials of articles supplied to the asylums and sold to
the public and labour of insanes on trees, and Rs. 10,650-7-6 were " book receipts "
on account of works done by the Public Works Department and supply of sta-
tionery, forms and Europe medicines, &c.; the corresponding figures for the
previous year being Rs. 1,09,781-7-2, Rs. 13,781-5-3, Rs. 2,801-1-11 and
Rs. 11,014-4-11, respectively. Rs. 60-10-6 were realized by the sale of unser-
viceable articles as compared with Rs. 98-11-7 in 1894.
The total expenditure amounted to Rs. 1,36,135-15-1 againstRs.1,37,477-10-10
in 1894. The cost on establishment was Rs. 48,691-1-11 as compared with
Rs. 46,594-14-6 in the preceding year, the increase being due to the increased
rate of allowances to the Superintendent of the Dhárwár Lunatic Asylum and to
the entertainment of additional establishment in the Poona and Dhárwár Asylums.
Rs. 47,914-3-4 were expended on diets, or Rs. 2,177-5-5 less than in 1894.
Clothing and bedding cost Rs. 5,313-14-2, the increase of Rs. 593-7-1 over the
previous year being attributed to the purchase of new clothing and bedding at
Poona, Colába and Hyderabad Asylums to replace old and worn-out ones. The ex-
penditure on medicines amounted to Rs. 1,898-9-10 as compared with Rs. 1,644-3-5
in 1894, the increase being due to the charges on account of a portion of medical
stores supplied to the Ratnágiri, Dhárwár and Ahmedadad Asylums during the
year 1894 being paid in the year under report. There is a decrease of Rs. 1,181-0-7
in the cost of contingencies over the preceding year.
If the amounts of Rs. 13,886-10-10 received from paying patients,
Rs. 1,320-4-0 on account of the sale of manufactured goods and labour on trees