OFFICE OF SURGEON-GENERAL
WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF MADRAS,
OOTACAMUND, 31st July 1888.
No. 0/386.
From
G. BIDIE, ESQ., M.B., C.I.E.,
Surgeon-General with the Government of Madras,
Ootacamund,
To
THE CHIEF SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT,
Judicial Department,
Ootacamund.
SIR,
I HAVE the honor to lay before the Right Honorable the Governor in Council
a report and statistics, showing the working of the three Lunatic Asylums in the
Madras Presidency in the. year 1887.
2. GENERAL RESULTS.—The total number under treatment was 797, consisting
of 619 males and 178 females, against 768 in the previous year, made up of 576
males and 192 females. The admissions, including re-admissions, amounted to 207
and were, therefore, 39 in excess of the number in 1886. The number discharged
during the year was 124 (107 males and 17 females). Of these, 73 or 58.87 per
cent. were cured, 24 or 19.35 per cent. transferred to friends, and 27 or 21.78 per
cent. discharged otherwise. The deaths numbered 46 against 33 in 1886. At the
close of 1887 there remained in the asylums 627 cases, being an increase of 37
over the number remaining at the end of the previous year.
3. The following statement contrasts the chief results in each of the three
asylums in 1887, with the corresponding incidents in 1886 :—
|
Asylums. |
Years. |
Re- |
Admit- |
Daily |
Daily |
Died. |
Percentage of |
|||
|
Cures to |
Deaths to |
Cures to |
Deaths to |
|||||||
|
Madras ... |
1886 |
438 |
148 |
433.50 |
12.92 |
29 |
22.60 |
6.68 |
66.21 |
19.59 |
|
1887 |
450 |
150 |
451.25 |
18.97 |
40 |
11.75 |
8.87 |
35.33 |
26.66 |
|
|
Vizagapatam. |
1886 |
50 |
11 |
50.14 |
0.38 |
3 |
9.97 |
5.98 |
45.45 |
27.27 |
|
1887 |
52 |
13 |
52.19 |
0.92 |
2 |
15.32 |
3.83 |
61.53 |
15.38 |
|
|
Calicut ... |
1886 |
102 |
9 |
104.84 |
1.61 |
1 |
14.30 |
0.95 |
166.66 |
11.11 |
|
1887 |
125 |
44 |
117.84 |
1.58 |
4 |
10.18 |
3.39 |
27.27 |
9.09 |
|
In all the three asylums the residual population at the end of 1887 was
larger than at the same period of 1886, and the admissions were also in the several
institutions more numerous in the former than in the latter year. The largest
number of insanes locked up during any one night of the year was in Madras 472,
Vizagapatam 56, and Calicut 127 ; while the existing accommodation is as follows :—
|
No. |
|
|
Madras space for Europeans and Eurasians ... ... ... |
145 |
|
Do. for Natives ... ... ... ... ... |
402 |
|
Total ... |
547 |
|
Vizagapatam space for Natives ... ... ... ... ... |
63 |
|
Calicut do. do. ... ... ... ... ... |
137 |