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17.    The Superintendent's report on the Jubbulpore Asylum gives the history
of the 9 cases of criminal lunatics admitted during the year; while the report on
the Nagpur Asylum contains a statement only showing numbers admitted under
the following general heads:—

(a)    Tried and acquitted on the ground of insanity.

(b)    Insane on admission and found incapable of making their defence.

(c)    Became insane during imprisonment.

                                        STATEMENT III.

18.    Religion and Sex.—Of the total number of admissions into both Asy-
lums, 55 were Hindus, 11 Mahomedans, 1, a Native Christian and 6 belonged to
other castes. The percentage of females to males was 37.7. There was a Euro-
pean patient at Jubbulpore, but owing to the want of suitable accommodation,
the case could not be admitted.

                                        STATEMENT IV.

19.     Occupation, &c., of those admitted.—The largest number belonged to the
cultivating classes; and next to these come labourers, beggars and servants. One
of the patients admitted into the Jubbulpore Asylum was a Professor of Persian
in the Government College, regarding whom an interesting account is given by
Dr. McKay in para 8 of his report.

                                        STATEMENT V.

20.    Age of those admitted.—As in previous years, the age of the majority
of persons admitted into both Asylums is between 20 and 40 years, the percentage
of admissions last year at that age-period being 82.

                                        STATEMENT VI.

21.     Types of Insanity.—The total population of both Asylums at the end
of the year, classified according to the types of insanity, was as follows :—

As usual, the large majority of the lunatics under treatment were suffering
from mania and dementia.

                                        STATEMENT VII.

22. Alleged causes of Insanity.—Of the 73 admissions during the year, 36
were ascribed to physical and 16 to moral causes, while 21 come under the head
"causes unknown." Of the latter number, 16 were admitted at Nagpur and
5 at Jubbulpore : 7 of the " unknown " at Nagpur were homeless and friendless
wanderers, about whose previous history and habits little or nothing was known,
and some of the remaining 9 had been addicted to the use of ganja or other in-
toxicating drug. With regard to the use of ganja, Dr. Silcock observes that
there was no evidence to show whether this habit was the cause of insanity or the
consequence of it. In the case of the 5 admitted into the Jubbulpore Asylum,
Dr. McKay writes, that the patients are at present unable to give any information,
and that nothing can be ascertained regarding them by the District Magistrates.