Government [NLS note: a graphic appears here - see image of page] of Madras
LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT
PUBLIC HEALTH
G.O. No. 1123 P.H., 25th May 1932
Mental Hospitals—Report for 1931—Recorded with remarks.
READ—the following :—
Letter from Major-General C. A. SPRAWSON, C.I.E., V.H.S., I.M.S..
Surgeon-General with the Government of Madras, to the Secretary to
Government, Local Self-Government (Public Health) Department,
dated 18th April 1932, R. No. 623-Hos.
Order—No. 1123 P.H., dated 25th May 1932.
Recorded.
2. Strength and accommodation.—The total number of patients under
treatment and the daily average strength continued to increase, the totals
being 2,077 and 1,500 respectively against 1,942 and 1,404 during 1930.
Government regret that owing to financial stringency proposals for
extensions and improvements to the Mental Hospital, Madras, had to be
deferred.
3. Sick rate and mortality.—It is satisfactory to note that the death-
rate fell from 7.4 per cent in 1930 to 5.8 per cent in the year under report :
similarly the daily average number of patients sick in the hospitals also
fell from 236 to 234. The mental hospitals at Waltair and Calicut were
free from epidemics of any kind. A few stray cases of infectious
diseases were present in the Madras Hospital but not in epidemic form.
4. General.—Financial stringency stood in the way of effecting the
improvements suggested by the Surgeon-General.
(By order of the Government, Ministry of Public Health)
E. CONRAN SMITH,
Secretary to Government.
To the Surgeon-General.
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