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pality at Ratnágiri have not as yet supplied the sanctioned quantity of 4,000 gal-
lons per diem as stipulated in Government Resolution No. 156 C.W.—623 of 1889.
The present supply is only 1,500 gallons per day.
10. The undermentioned works were executed and paid for out of the
Surgeon-General's discretionary grant at the lunatic asylums during the year
1895 :—
Improving the arrangements for the water-supply at the Lunatic
Asylum, Dhárwár ... ... ... ... ... ...
Erecting a pukka teak iron-barred gate between the barracks in the
Lunatic Asylum, Hyderabad ... ... ... ... ...
Making cement paving to the floor of the grinding-room at the Lunatic
Asylum, Poona ... ... ... ... ... ...
Renewing padding from the old padded cells and converting them into
an ordinary cell at the Lunatic Asylum, Poona ... ... ...
Converting closed passage between the two front buildings into a store-
room at the Lunatic Asylum, Poona ... ... ... ...
Laying down pipes for supplying drinking water from the municipal
water-works at the Lunatic Asylum, Ahmedabad ... ...
Providing additions and alterations in cook-rooms for improved cooking
arrangement at the Lunatic Asylum, Ahmedabad ... ...
Rs. ...
Rs.
28
123
60
40
131
394
250
1,026
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 under report was 978, or 22 less than in the previous year. Of these,
80.4 were males and 174 females as compared with 808 males and 192 females in
1894. On 1st January 1895 there remained 566 males and 141 females, 220
males and 31 females were admitted, and 18 males and 2 females re-admitted ;
65 males and 15 females were discharged cured, 98 males and 13 females trans-
ferred to the care of friends (82 males and 8 females improved and 16 males
and 5 females not improved), and 5 males discharged otherwise (1 escaped, 1
transferred from the criminal to the civil list and 1 from the non-criminal
to the criminal list, and 2 handed over to the care of their relations by order
of the Magistrate. 58 males and 10 females died against 79 males and 22
females in 1894. At the close of the year there remained 578 males and 136
females—total 714 as compared with 707 (566 males and 141 females) in the
preceding year. The daily average strength was 581.5 males and 136.1 females
—total 717.6 against 727.5 (males 583.1 and females 144.4) in 1894.
The percentages of cures and deaths to the daily average strength were —
Cured
...
Died ...
Males ... ... ...
Females ... ... ...
Males ... ... ...
Females ... ... ...
11.1
11.0
9.9
7.3
Total ...
Total ...
11.1
9.4
The percentages to admissions were—
Cured
...
Died ...
Males ... ... ...
Females ... ... ...
Males ... ... ...
Females ... ... ...
27.3
45.4
24.3
30.3
Total ...
Total ...
29.5
25.0
Statement No. II gives details of criminal lunatics. At the beginning of
the year there had remained 91 males and 10 females, 24 males were admitted
and 1 male was re-admitted, making a total of 116 males and 10 females—a grand
total of 126 in all confined as compared with 130 (males 118 and females 12) in
the previous year. Of these, 11 males were discharged, transferred, &c., and
8 males died, leaving 97 males and 10 females—total 107 on 31st December
1895. The daily average strength of these insanes was 95.0 males and 10.0
females—total 105.0 against 107.1 (males 97.7 and females 9.4) in the preceding
year.