STATISTICAL RETURNS
OP TEE
LUNATIC ASYLUM
IN
ASSAM
TOR THE YEA.R
1912.
WITH BRIEF EXPLANATORY NOTES.
1. During the year 1912 the following officers held d ro uc ory.                 charge of the Lunatic Asylum at Tezpur, which is the only
asylum in the province :—
Major A. Leventon, I.M.S., from the 1st January to the 5th June.
Assistant Surgeon Jatindra Mohan Sikdar from the Gth June to the 3rd Octoher.
Assistant Surgeon Sushil Chandra Bhattacharyya from the 4th Octobar to the 20th December.
Major E. C. MacLeod, i.M.s., from the 21st December to the 31st December.
GENERAL.
2. The number of inmates remaining in the asylum at the end of the year 1911 was
Admissions: Statement No. I.
232, of whom 194 were males and 38 females. The number
admitted during the year (including re-admissions) was 66 against 43 in the previous year. Of these, 51 were males and 15 females. The dis­tricts of Sibsagar, Kamrup, Darrang, Nowgong and Lakhimpur furnished the largest numbers.
There were 6 re-admissions, 5 males and 1 femle, against 3 in 1911. Of the 5 , . . _A        . __ , males, 2 were criminal and 3 non-criminal lunatics. The
P.e-admissions : statement No. I. n • *_ 1 1         i-                         i .j.x i *± a. » i m               i
2 criminal lunatics were re-admitted after trial. Iwo male and one female non-criminals were readmitted after an interval of six, four and one year and a half, respectively. One male first admitted as a non-criminal lunatic was afterwards transferred to the criminal list.
The total number of discharges, excluding 2 escapes, was 20 against 23 in the „ ,         _,           „ , previous year: sixteen were discharged cured against 21
Discharges : Statement No. I.        • in-i-i o                     i                        il • js • j                      ± n
fc                              in 1911, a were made over to their mends as mentally
improved and 1 as not improved.
There were 2 escapes during tho year against 1 in the year before. These two
lunatics managed to make their escape by scaling the
s^pes: a emen o. .         bamboo palisade. They are still at largo. Tho escapes
were reported to the Police and tho District Magistrate and a thorough search was made by the Asylum staff. The responsible keepers were punished.
8. On the 1st January there were 79 criminal lunatics in the asylum; 19 were
admitted during tho year (including 2 re-admissiens) ; 5
Adn»i6flion8.ola»Bifiedacowdingto were discharged erred, 18 died and 80 remained at tho (a) criminal and i on-onminel luna-           , .. ,.                     m. , .-,                                      ,,                »>,,«
tios: (statement No. II.                 end or the year. The daily average strength was ll'lo
against 78*85 in the previous year.