2

4. Patients.—The number of patients resident in the
hospital on the 1st January 1935 and the two previous years is
shown below :—

5. The maximum number resident in hospital on (any)
one night during 1935, as compared with the two previous years,
was as follows :—

6. Total admission,—The following table shows the
admissions during the triennium under report :—

All the new admissions were certified cases and admitted
under a Reception Order either from Prisons or the Mental
Observation Ward, Bhowanipur or from their homes, with the
exception of two females (one in 1934, one in 1935) who
were admitted under section 4 of the Indian Lunacy Act as
voluntary boarders. It is regretted that owing to want of
accommodation in the male section no cases applying for
voluntary admission or those who were not dangerous or
unmanageable could be admitted.

Another noticeable feature is that the public do not yet
realise the importance of early treatment in the psychoses in
modern mental hospitals, but delay seeking admission till the
disease is so far advanced—after a disappointing trial of Ayurvedic
or Kabiraj nostrums—that management at home is impossible
and certification imperative. One patient was admitted in 1935,
after being treated at home for 20 years. Another had admission
postponed till he was brought in 1935 in a moribund state. He
died soon after admission.