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furnishing 28.37. Of the whole of the 10 females, 6 were in service, 1 was a ryot's wife, 1 a
prostitute, and 2 Dhangarni women employed in tea gardens.

Statement No: 7 shows that the greatest number 35 were between 30 and 40 years of
age on admission, 31 between 20 and 30 ; 5 between 10 and 20 years ; 3 between 40 and 50,
and 3 between 50 and 60.

As natives are generally quite ignorant of their age, it is impossible to rely implicitly on
these figures.

During the last 25 years the ages of the lunatics on admission have been as follows :—
On 2,057 males admitted—

Of the female admissions 442 in all—

Statement No. 8 shows the causes of mortality and the average period of confinement at
the date of death.

During the year 35 deaths occurred out of a daily average of 210, or 16.6 per cent. The
rate during 1865 was 11.61 ; during 1866 it rose to 16.

The mortality has been chiefly among the old inmates and those who had not been a
year in the asylum. The 2 oldest residents were among the former number: 1 had
been 34 years and 11 months, the other 28 years and 4 months under restraint of the others ;
2 had been over 18 years in confinement: 9 died within one year of their admission ;
8 within two years. Of the former, 4 were in good health when they arrived, 5 had
anœmia, spleen disease, diarrhœa, or epilepsy. Three of the 9 came from Dacca, 2 from
Tipperah, 1 from Cooch Behar, 1 from Mymensingh, 1 from Backergunge, and 1 from Sylhet

Of the fatal cases, 20 were afflicted with chronic mania, 1 with acute mania, 10 with
dementia, 3 with monomania, and 1 with amentia.

The average period spent in confinement was 5 years, 4 months, and 17 days.

The causes of death were as detailed in Statement No. 8. It is impossible to specify
under any particular disease the cause of death in a large number of lunatics. In the
asylum reports they have of late years been generally classified under the comprehensive
term "cachexia," which includes many symptoms and as many different diseases. Those
which fall under this head in the present report were cases in which there was a general
deterioration of constitution with anœmia. The results of this defective nutrition were weak
digestion, a dropsical condition of the extremities, great decrease in the temperature of the
body, ulceration of the cornea, a tendency to diarrhœa, dysentery and low asthenic pneu-
monia, and some cases were complicated with enlargement of the spleen and the development