ANNUAL REPORT ON LUNATIC ASYLUMS.     7

The increase in the other item, viz., under clothing and bedding was in conse-
quence of the increase in the stock on hand.

In the abstract given above the charges under hospital necessaries and mis-
cellanies have been omitted for want of a separate column, and, if Government see
no objection, such charges will, in future, be included under medicines with the
necessary foot-note.

The average monthly cost of dieting a European or Eurasian paying patients
in Madras was Rs. 13-6-9 against Rs. 10-7-11, the cost of feeding a pauper
patient and that of a native paying patient was Rs. 5-2-4 against Rs. 6-3-5, the
cost of a non-paying patient. In Waltair the cost was Rs. 3-5-6 for a paying
patient and Rs. 2-8-4 for a pauper patient. In Calicut the charges were respec-
tively Rs. 4-14-4 and Rs. 15-5-6 for a pauper and a paying patient. The exhor-
bitant cost in dieting a paying patient in this asylum was apparently due to a
very small average strength of this class of patients.

The value of garden produce was in Madras Rs. 215-12-9, in Waltair
Rs. 333-15-0 and in Calicut Rs. 215-15-4.

11. The sanctioned establishment of the three asylums are given in State-
ment X appended to the report, the number and cost continue very much the
same as in previous years with slight changes here and there.

The proportion of attendants and toties sanctioned by Government was main-
tained as far as practicable.

12.  Statement XI shows the working of the factories. In Madras out of a
mean population of 439, 273 inmates were employed on manufacture. In Calicut
and Waltair the number was respectively 24.39 and 22. The profits during the
year were in Madras Rs. 2,230-10-4, in Vizagapatam and Calicut the amounts were
respectively Rs. 361-5-4 and Rs. 544-9-10.

In the Madras Asylum, in addition to the weaving of cotton goods, the manu-
facture of cumblies was started up during the year under report.

13.  The inventory of the valuable stock of the three asylums has been duly
checked and found correct.

14.  GENERAL REMARKS.—Under the orders of Government, the native jail diet
was during the year gradually introduced into the asylums, and though, perhaps,
it may be premature to form any general conclusions on the effect of the new diet
on the general health of the inmates, still it has to be observed that there was
among natives both in Madras and Calicut a decided falling off in flesh. The
Superintendent of the Calicut Asylum considers the present scale of diet to be not
sufficiently nourishing to the insanes.

                                                I have the honor to be,
                                                            Sir,
                                            Your most obedient servant,

                        W. F. DEFABECK, M.D., Surgeon-Major-General,
                                Surgeon-General with the Government of Madras.