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being made over to the care of his friends. A woman in the Poona Asylum
sustained a simple facture of the forearm, the result of a fall; but this was the
only injury of a serious nature which occurred.
4. With a slightly smaller population, the total number of deaths increased
by 53 ; and of these diarrhœa and cholera accounted for 38. Owing mainly
to these two causes, the ratios of mortality at the Colába, Ahmedabad and
Hyderabad asylums were very largely augmented. At Poona the ratios were
slightly greater than, and at Ratnágiri about the same as, in 1899, whilst
at the Dhárwár asylum they were much reduced, the number of deaths being
only 2 as against 7 in the preceding year. At the Colába Asylum, the total
mortality was 143.1 per mille, as compared with 104.5 in the previous year,
whilst that among the European patients was 51.5, and among the Natives 165.4
of the total population, as against 53.6 and 119 during the year 1899.
Among the Europeans at Colába there were five deaths, viz., one each
from phthisis, remittent fever, cholera, anæmia and Bright's disease. Of
the 66 deaths among natives at the same asylum, 4 were ascribed to cholera,
15 to dysentery, 17 to phthisis, 10 to Bright's disease and 4 to anæmia.
At the Ratnágiri Asylum the three deaths were all caused by cholera,
and the ratio of mortality to total population was only 25 per mille.
At Poona, the causes of the 12 deaths were debility 4, diarrhœa 3, dysen-
tery 2, and apoplexy, epilepsy and pneumonia one each.
At Dhárwár, the two deaths resulted from diarrhœa and exhaustion. In
the first case death occurred in eleven weeks, and in the other within five hours
after admission into the asylum.
At Ahmedabad there were 23 deaths, as compared with 5 in 1899 ; and
the ratio of deaths to population rose from 39.1 to 179.7 per mille. Cholera
and phthisis accounted for 4 each, pneumonia 3, diarrhœa 2, and dysentery,
remittent fever, scurvy, anæmia, debility, old age, cellulitis, bronchitis, acute
nephritis and snake-bite one each. In the last-mentioned case a woman died
three hours after being bitten in the hand by a Krait (Bungarus), which she
caught whilst it was creeping towards her and brought to the female warder.
At the Sir Cowasji Jehangir Asylum at Hyderabad there were 28 deaths as
compared with 7 in 1899, and the ratio increased from 50.7 to 205.9 per mille
of the total population. Cholera caused 13, diarrhœa 6, debility 4, and scurvy,
epilepsy, cellulitis, pneumonia and sunstroke one each of the fatal cases.
Post mortem examinations were made in only thirteen instances, viz. 9 at
Colába, 2 at Poona and 2 at Dhárwár.
The subjoined statement gives the ratios of sickness and mortality in each
of the asylums during the year 1900, together with the totals for 1899.
Colába
...
...
...
..
Ratnágiri
...
...
...
Poona
...
...
...
Dhárwár
...
...
...
Ahmedabad ... ... ...
Hyderabad ... ... ...
Total ...
1900 ...
1899 ...
Average
daily
strength.
296.6
110.0
100.7
63.5
104.9
103.5
779.2
795.0
Total
popula-
tion.
496
120
126
83
128
136
1,089
1,114
Number
of
deaths.
71
3
12
2
23
28
139
86
Percentage of daily average
sick to the daily average
population.
Male.
6.6
0.5
7.4
0.8
5.4
4.6
5.0
4.2
Female.
7.0
1.0
14.1
3.3
8.7
7.3
6.9
6.5
Total.
6.7
0.6
9.1
1.4
5.9
4.8
5.4
4.7
Ratio of deaths
per mille to
Average
daily
strength.
239.4
27.3
119.2
31.5
219.3
270.5
178.4
108.2
Total
popula-
tion.
143.1
25.0
95.2
24.1
179.7
205.9
127.6
77.2