( 14 )

(b) Miajan, Mahomedan, aged 30 years, formerly a patwari, admitted for
mania. His brother has been in the Asylum for seven years, and his mother is
insane, but living at her home.

Fever.

28. The case in which fever is believed to have been the cause of insanity, was
in the person of a Brahmin widow, named Ramdhei, aged
about 26 years. This woman had been admitted into the
Dufferin Hospital for fever.

Whilst in the hospital, she suddenly developed symptoms of acute mania and
was transferred to the Asylum. After a residence of 52 days in the Asylum, she
recovered and became quite sane. The official visitors have ordered that she
be made over to her friends.

Pregnancy.

27.    The case in which pregnancy is believed to have been the exciting
cause of insanity, was in the person of a woman named Gan-
goo, aged 35 years, who had been in the Asylum for about
two months in 1894, and who was discharged after her confinement and made
over to her friends. She was again admitted for mania on 29th May 1898.

28.    The eight moral causes of insanity were:—

29.    In 7 of the 16 cases in which I have returned the causes of insanity as
" unknown," the patients were homeless and friendless wanderers, about whose
previous history and habits little or nothing was known; and in some of the re-
maining 9, there was a habit of using ganja or other intoxicating drug. With
regard to the latter, however, there was no evidence to show whether this habit
was the cause of insanity or the consequence of it.

                                       STATEMENT VIII.

30.    This statement shows the sickness and mortality during the year.

There were 205 admissions into hospital and 17 deaths, against 59 and 14,
respectively, in 1897.

31.    The daily average number of sick was 5.74 males and 0.99 females,
total 6.73, against 7.01 in 1897.

32.    The chief causes of admission were influenza, ague, debility and
dysentery.

One hundred and thirteen cases of influenza occurred in October. The disease
was of a mild form and was not followed by pulmonary or other complications, and
no mortality, directly or indirectly, resulted from it.

During the early part of 1898, a good many cases of influenza occurred in the
district, and some 20 cases occurred in the Asylum in May and June; but
in October, when the disease broke out in the Asylum in an epidemic form,
the district was free from it. Ague was most prevalent during September and
October, and dysentery in June.

33.    The deaths occurred from the following causes :—