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The difference in contingencies, whereby the figure is nearly double that
of 1867, has arisen from the introduction of brass plates for eating, the
substitution of iron tanks for earthen vessels for storing water, and the new
arrangements for the latrines.

Clothing, bedding, &c., exhibit such difference as the numbers have made
necessary.

Notwithstanding that the industrial profits of 1867 greatly exceeded those
of earlier years, they have been surpassed by those of 1868. In the former year,
excluding the sum of Rs. 4,437 as estimated value of buildings, &c., erected and
Rs. 487 credited as remaining due by the Agra Bank, the money actually
received for work and produce of various kinds amounted to Rs. 3,444. This
year it is Rs. 6,541. The survey report on building work shall be submitted as
soon as it can be obtained. The Executive Engineer has, from pressure of work,
been unable to depute an officer to measure and appraise it hitherto.

The amount will be small, as the chief items composing it are new work-
sheds, which were not completed when the year closed, and which will therefore
appear in the reckoning of the current year. These new buildings, which the
enlarging scale of work has rendered indispensable, have absorbed all the
available money, and led to delay in re-paying the loan of Rs. 3,000 which
was obtained from the Government during the year (on 29th October 1868) for
the purposes of the oil manufacture, and expended in the purchase of seed.
Similarly I have not been able, as I otherwise should have been, to commence
crediting to Government the amount received for maintenance of certain patients
from their friends. I hope the circumstances may save me from censure for
the continuance of this irregularity.

In letter No. 1944, dated 21st April 1868, His Honor the Lieutenant
Governor expressed a desire for the submission of accounts showing the manner
in which the funds had been expended. Such accounts have been prepared and
appended to the annual tables.

General treatment and management. —Under this head I have nothing of
novelty to bring forward. The same medicinal remedies have been used with
the same results as in former years. Vaccination has been practised in every
case. There has been no instance of small-pox in the Asylum.

So much has been said and written of late years respecting the treatment
of lunatics without personal restraint, and popular feeling has been so largely
enlisted in its favor, that non-restraint has given its name to the modern system,
and has come to be an expression for every thing that is kind and humane,
while all that savours of restraint is condemned in the popular mind, as belong-
ing to an age of barbarism. So much of real cruelty was practised in former
years under pretence of needful restraint, that a little extravagance in the
opposite direction was natural as a step towards a just balance.