Note on the Statistical Tables of the Punjab Mental Hospital,
                    Lahore, for the year 1925.

Statement I.—Ad-
missions, discharges,
etc.

Population.—The year opened with a population of 862
inmates in the Mental Hospital ; of these, 679
were males and 183 females. The number
of admission during the year was 292, i.e.,
232 males and 60 females. The total number of patients
treated during the year was, therefore, 1,154, as compared with
1,193 in 1924 and 1,197 in 1923. The mean population for the
year was 864.54, and this figure reveals a very slight decrease as
compared with the corresponding figures for the two preceding
years. This decrease is accounted for by the fact that the
admissions fell from 322 in 1924, and 317 in 1923, to 292 in the
year under report.

The total number discharged was 194 against 232 in 1924
and 234 in 1923. Of the number discharged, 122 were returned
as cured, as compared with 144 and 123 in 1924 and 1923, res-
pectively. The variation is negligible when expressed in terms
of percentages of the daily average strength of the Hospital for
the last three years and no remarks are called for.

Sickness and
Mortality.

2. The death rate shows both an actual and a proportionate
increase. The actual number of deaths for the
year was 123. The death rate as expressed in
terms of percentage of average strength was
14.23, as compared with 11.31 for 1924 and 10.23 for 1923. The
prevailing cause of death was intestinal disorder, principally
dysentery and diarrhœa. As many as 313 cases of dysentery and
diarrhœa received hospital treatment with 63 deaths. Tuber-
culosis of various forms accounted for 39 cases, with 16 deaths.
There were no epidemic diseases during the year.

Statement II.—
Criminal patients.

3. The number of criminal patients treated during the
year was 196, whilst for 1924 it was 187 and for
1923, 1.93. During the year 10 criminal patients
were transferred to the non-criminal class, as
their crimes were of a trivial nature.

Accommod ation.

4. The new criminal section was not brought into use as
the appointment of the requisite staff of attend-
ants awaits the orders of Government.

Sanitation.

There is considerable room for improvement in the
sanitation of the Hospital. There is no doubt
that the number of flies at present in the Institu-
tion is responsible for the spread of dysentery and diarrhœa. The