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

He was admitted in August 1892 and discharged cured in March 1893—eight months'
detention. He has remained sane ever since and is said to be at Hardwar at present.

His lunacy may have been due to hemp, but this is by no means certain; religious
excitement may have produced it, partly at all events.

LAHORE;                                                                    W. COATES, M.D.,

31st January 1894.                                             Superintendent, Lunatic Asylum.

Somirgir is stated to have left Lahore some time ago and his whereabouts are not
known.

LAHORE;                                                     F. S. JAMALDIN, KHAN BAHADUR,

18th December 1893.                                          Magistrate, 1st class, Lahore District.

                                              6.—Mohna, Hindu, aged 28.

Was discharged cured from the Lunatic Asylum in May 1893; he himself gives a very
clear account of his illness and attributes it entirely to charas smoking.

There is no family history of insanity and it seems clear that the charas was the
cause of the illness.

The man is now said to be quite sane.
A case of toxic insanity.

LAHORE;                                                                        W. COATES, M.D.,

31st January 1894.                                               Superintendent, Lunatic Asylum.

Mohna, son of Narain Singh, Arora, late a lunatic in the Lahore Lunatic Asylum.

This man is now perfectly sane. He states that in 1886 he went to Rindli, in the
Quetta district. While there, in consequence of the intense cold and watering of the
eyes, he first began to take opium. He never exceeded half a pice worth, or 6 grains
daily. He returned to his home in Wazirabad in 1891 and remained there for a few months,
when he went to Lahore. He suffered no inconvenience from taking opium.

While at Lahore, where he remained for two and a half months engaged in selling
milk, curd, etc., he got into the habit of smoking charas, on which he spent half anna a day.
Under the influence of charas he quite lost his senses and was admitted a lunatic in the
Lahore Asylum on the 25th August 1892, and remained there until the 25th May 1893,
when he was discharged cured. He has not taken to the drug again, neither does he take
opium now.

His father being a Sikh did not smoke charas; neither was he addicted to any other
kind of drug.

His maternal uncle used bhang for 10 or 12 years, but did not suffer any inconveni-
ence from its use; he died from cholera in 1892 on his way to or from Hardwar.

Tahsildar,
of Wazirabad in the Gujranwala District.

R. CROSSLEY,
16th January 1894.                                                         Civil Surgeon, Gujranwala.

                                                7.—Tehl Shah, Suthra Fakir.

His insanity seems to be distinctly traceable to indulgence in narcotic drugs—opium
and hemp both as bhang and charas; he also had syphilis when he was about 25 years of
age; he is now about 35. His insanity began probably three years ago. Though hemp
was probably the exciting cause of his insanity, it is impossible to say that other probable
causes were absent, and so the case is not of much use for the purposes of the Commis-
sion's inquiry.