66                  REPORT OF THE INDIAN HEMP DRUGS COMMISSION, 1893-94.                  [APP.

                                          Hemp Drug cases admitted in 1892—contd.

Name, race, occupation,
district, age, and register
number of lunatic.

Alleged
cause of
insanity.
(Statement
VII.)

Type of Insa-
nity. (State-
ment VI.)

State of
health on
admission.

Facts ascertained from the papers.

Asylum history and facts ascertained
from registers and from inquiry
from Superintendent, etc.

13. Mussamat Kitni
Murani; Tea cooly;
Ranchi; 21; No.
10.

Ganja

Toxic
insanity.

Bad

Dr. Mullane certifies that she " is
silent and morose, refuses to
answer questions, avoids com-
pany."

The Descriptive Roll shows that
nothing whatever is known about
the cause of insanity or the
woman's past history.

Admitted, 15th November 1892.

Discharged, 4th June 1893.

The case is shown as melancholia.
The woman improved in mental
condition and was sent to the
Charitable Dispensary for medi-
cal treatment on 4th June 1893.

She was not then sane. The Hos-
pital Assistant at the Dispensary
informed us that she had been
placed in the "Moribund Ward"
and died there of anæmia on 8th
June 1893.

The cause of insanity is shown in
the case book as "unknown,"
but in the general register the
word "ganja" has been written
by the Jamadar over an erasure
made in the column (11) showing
cause.

NOTE.—The total number of admissions in 1892 was—

Criminal

Males

3

Females

Non-criminal

Males

27

Females

13

TOTAL

43

Of these, eleven males and two females are shown in Statement VII as cases of insanity due to ganja, and in Statement VI as cases of toxic insanity. The
register, however, shows the thirteen cases as ten males and three females.

14th March 1894.