IN BURMA FOR THE YEAR 1929.                                5

Senior Deputy Superintendent. Special diets were issued on festivals
and other special occasions.

18. Amusement and Recreation.—At Tadagale in-door and out-door
games and pastimes were encouraged in suitable cases and found
beneficial. A band played once a month during the dry season, the
expense being defrayed by the Rangoon Corporation,

Each section is provided with a gramophone, with appropriate
records in different languages.

Annual sports were held as usual and small money prizes were

distributed. Newspapers and novels were circulated amongst the

patients.

Well behaved patients were permitted to attend church or visit

pagodas. Visits to relatives or to bioscopes were made under necessary

escorts. Batches of inmates, by turn, were given periodical drives

in the hospital bus.

The following donations in money and kind were received during

the year :—

At Minbu, the inmates were kept amused as much as possible by
gramophone entertainments and were given special meals on festive
occasions. Some inmates were occasionally allowed to go to the bazaar
for the purpose of making small purchases with their pocket money.
They were also permitted to attend certain pagoda festivals in the town.
A local pongyi whenever possible was granted permission to deliver
sermons to the inmates on Sabbath days.

19. Employment.—The daily average employed was 545.75 (500.04
males and 45.71 females).

Patients were employed in tailoring, weaving, gardening, paddy
grinding, dairy work and general cleaning works. Well behaved
patients assisted in cooking and as food distributors and bathing attend-
ants. Specially selected sane inmates were detailed as sick-attendants.