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Colába
...
...
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Ratnágiri
...
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Poona ... ... ...
Dhárwár ... ...
Ahmedabad
...
...
Hyderabad (Sir Cowasji
Jehangir)
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Total ...
MEDICINES.
Total Cost.
Rs.
1,093
217
209
172
123
69
1,885
a.
9
1
7
4
6
8
6
p.
7
8
5
9
5
10
8
Cost per
head of daily
average
strength.
Rs.
3
2
1
2
1
0
2
a.
8
4
15
13
2
10
6
p.
2
8
8
11
5
4
4
CONTINGENCIES.
Total Cost.
Rs.
6,608
558
862
152
956
590
9,729
a.
15
8
5
12
4
12
10
p.
1
3
0
11
10
0
1
Cost per
head of dally
average
strength.
Rs
21
5
8
2
8
5
12
a.
3
14
2
8
14
7
5
p.
8
3
6
9
11
6
10
TOTAL.
Total Cost.
Rs.
71,156
11,899
12,790
6,982
11,060
11,097
1,24,987
a.
3
10
13
10
8
7
5
p.
2
11
4
0
9
7
9
Cost per
head of daily
average
strength.
Rs.
228
125
121
116
103
102
158
a.
9
8
0
6
4
12
13
p.
3
5
2
0
4
1
4
With reference to paragraph 7 of Government Resolution, General Depart-
ment, No. 2714, dated 2nd July 1894, I beg to solicit the attention of Govern-
ment to my Annual Administration Report on the Asylums of the Bombay
Presidency for the year 1895, re the fluctuations in expenditure under
different heads in the various asylums, and to state that I have nothing more to
add to the remarks therein made which apply to the year under review.
Statement No. X shows the sanctioned establishment as it stood on 31st
December 1898. The monthly cost was Rs. 4,094-8-0, as compared with
Rs. 3,993-8-0 in 1897. The increase of Rs. 110-0-0 is due to the increased rate
of pay to the steward at Colába and to the entertainment of a conservancy cart-
driver at Poona, and of a First Class Hospital Assistant, in lieu of a Third Class,
and of two additional male warders at the Dhárwár Lunatic Asylum.
Statement No. XI shows the receipts and expenditure of the Manufacturing
Department. The total credits amounted to Rs. 3,571-3-4, and debits to
Rs. 2,456-3-7, showing a profit of Rs. 1,114-15-9 against Rs. 1,418-11-0 in 1897.
The average number of insanes employed during the year was 293.3 males and
68.1 females—total 359.4, as compared with 366.9 (males 300.7 and females 66.2)
in the previous year. In calculating the percentage of the lunatics employed,
those employed as supplementary servants of the asylums, i.e. for works other
than on manufactures, have also been included in this statement, but the esti-
mated value of their labour has not been taken into account.
Referring to paragraph 24 of the note by the Director General, Indian
Medical Service, Simla, on the Reports of the Lunatic Asylums under Local
Governments and Administrations for the year 1895, I beg to state that at all
the asylums of this Presidency the want of more agricultural or garden land is
much felt. Much is however done by the Superintendents towards encouraging-
lunatics, who are harmless and willing to be useful, to work in the factories
attached to the asylums and also in extra-mural occupations. The treatment
of the insanes is carried on, as far as possible, according to the modern views
of specialists in mental diseases, by good diet and light work; and different
kinds of recreation and amusements are provided for them, such as musical
instruments, games, books, papers, periodicals and fireworks. Native musicians
are periodically engaged to amuse them, and on principal holidays extra diet and
sweetmeats are issued. All these amusements are much appreciated by the
patients, and conduce to their health and comfort; and they constantly enquire
when a holiday will take place and entertainments be repeated.
This system has been in force for many years, and the sum thus expended
during the year under report was Rs. 1,460.
At Colába the European and Eurasian and Native paying patients have no
suitable occupation in which they can be employed, whereas others, who are
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