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and the institution of mental clinics in all large hospitals is
a necessary preliminary to the decentralisation method of
treatment of mental patients.

15. The present advance to reorientate the views of the medical
profession on disease with the modern methods of psychological
work is one of great importance in the treatment of mental con-
ditions in the early stages, and is obviously an endeavour to
prevent complete breakdowns ; and this preventive work is the
responsibility not of the mental expert, but of the general
practitioner.

16. How many persons of unsound mind there are at present
in the two provinces is one for conjecture. According to the
last Census return, 1931 the following figures are given :—

BENGAL.

Total population.

British Territory ... ... ...

50,114,002

British States ... ... ...

973,336

Total ...

51,087,338

Number of insanes—

British Territory ... ... ...

21,705

British States ... ... ...

697

Total ...

22,402

Ratio of insanes to population—4.4 per 10,000.

BIHAR AND ORISSA.

Total population.

British Territory... ... ...

37,677,576

Feudatory States... ... ...

4,652,007

Total ...

42,329,583

NUMBER OF INSANES.

British Territory... ... ...

8,264

Feudatory States... ... ...

781

Total ...

9,045

Ratio of insanes to population—2.1 per 10,000.

These figures when compared with the record of the number
of insanes in England and Wales as given in the 1911
Census, viz., 44.9 per 10,000, would appear to indicate that