No. 16979 (Home—Medical).

From

               A. LATIFI, ESQ., O. B. E., I.C.S.,
                                 Secretary to Government, Punjab,
                                                      Transferred Departments,

To

            THE SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF
                                             INDIA, HOME DEPARTMENT.

                                                               Dated 8th June 1923.

SUBJECT.—Statistical Tabes of the Punjab Lunatic Asylum for
                                             1922.

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SIR,

I AM directed to forward, for the information of the
Government of India, the statistical tables of the Punjab Lunatic
Asylum for the year 1922 together with a note thereon by the
Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Punjab, and to convey the
following remarks of the Punjab Government (Ministry of
Education).

2.    The statistics of the Asylum for the year 1922 call
for little comment. There was again a slight decline in the
total population owing to the continued decrease in the number
of admissions from overseas. The average daily strength, however,
rose from 864 in 1921 to 867 in the year under report, and the
number of patients under treatment at the close of the year was
880 as against 46 at the close of 1921. The principal types of
insanity and the predisposing and exciting causes among new
admissions present very little change.

3.     The death-rate for the Asylum shows a satisfactory
decrease, and the health of the patients was on the whole good.
There was an increase both in the daily average of sickness and
in the number of patients under treatment for tuberculosis. The
figures for sickness in general, and tuberculosis in particular, are,
however. indicative rather of improved methods of treatment and