ANNUAL REPORT

                                                                         ON

                           LUNATIC ASYLUMS

                                                                     IN THE

                       CENTRAL PROVINCES

                                                            FOR THE YEAR

                                                   1897.

THIS Report is due in the Secretariat on 10th February, and was sent to
Press on that date.

2.     Officers in charge.—Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel H. K. McKay and Sur-
geon-Major G. F. A. Harris held charge of the Jubbulpore and Nagpur Lunatic
Asylums respectively throughout the year.

3.    Buildings, Accommodation, &c.—Nagpur Asylum. No additions or alter-
ations were made during the year. The usual annual repairs were carried out.

Jubbulpore Asylum. A large well, situated on the ground newly acquired,
was covered in and properly protected. A necessary addition to the boundary
wall on the north and west side of the garden has been sanctioned, and the
drains of the Asylum will be improved during the current year. The annual
repairs were carried out, as usual, by the Public Works Department.

                                             STATEMENT I.

4.    Admissions.—Nagpur Asylum. The number of inmates remaining from
1896 was 175, 141 males and 34 females. There were 27 admissions during the
year, viz., 22 males and 5 females, and 3 males were re-admitted. The total popu-
lation was thus 205, or the same figure as in 1896. Of the 27 new admissions,
22 were from the Central Provinces and 5 from Berar.

Admissions.—Jubbulpore Asylum. The number remaining from 1896 was 145,
114 males and 31 females ; 27 males and 5 females were admitted, and there were
no re-admissions. The total population was thus 177 as in 1896.

5.    Discharges.—Nagpur Asylum. Twenty-seven patients were discharged
during 1897, 25 males and 2 females, or 5 more than in the preceding year.
Of these, 9 who were admitted for acute mania, were discharged cured; 4 (2
cases of mania and 2 of dementia) " improved," and were made over to their
friends ; 3 (2 cases of mania and a case of dementia) were made over to their
friends as "not improved"; and 11 were discharged "otherwise." Those dis-
charged " otherwise" represent criminal lunatics who were sent to stand their
trial, to pass their probation in Central Jails, &c.

Discharges.—Jubbulpore Asylum. Seventeen patients were discharged, 16
males and 1 female. Of these, 16 were discharged "cured," and 1 "improved"
was made over to his friends.

6. The daily average population in the Nagpur Asylum was 167.15, or a
decrease of 10.68, and in the Jubbulpore Asylum 150.64, or a decrease of 3.46,
as compared with 1896. The maximum number of lunatics confined on any one
night in the Nagpur Asylum was 142 males and 34 females, and in the Jubbul-
pore Asylum 126 males and 33 females. There was for one day one male lunatic
in excess of accommodation provided at 54 superficial feet per patient.