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been made over to him when discharged, and it is likely he would have considered himself
culpable if he had allowed him to use bhang or charas. There is no family history of in-
sanity. I do not think there is evidence enough to show what the cause of this case was.

LAHORE;                                                                                  W. COATES, M.D.,

31st January 1894.                                                              Superintendent, Lunatic Asylum.

Statement of Gufara Kashmiri.—I live in Kila Teja, in Batala Tahsil. My brother's
name is Subhan. I don't know if he is alive. He is older than I am—about 40 years of
age.

He was entrusted to me from the Lahore Lunatic Asylum last Cheyet. He was well
then.

He has been mad before; it was by God's will he became mad. He did not use bhang
or charas while he was at home; he became mad then. I don't know why.

I am the youngest of four brothers—Sultan Baksh, Juma, Subhan, and Gufara, all sons
of Jamal. Sultan Baksh and Juma are dead. I don't know where Subhan is now.

He remained with me for about a month, then he went to see a sister at Batala, who
was ill; then he didn't return. He was all right when he went there. None of our family
uses bhang or charas.

Attested.

J. R. MACONACHIE,
16th December 1893.                                                    Deputy Commissioner, Gurdaspur.

                                                  11.—Dullo, a man of 25.

From the evidence or rather from the deductions drawn from it by the Civil Surgeon,
Gujranwala, it appears that this man was vicious and addicted to the use of hemp drugs
from his childhood. There is no family history of insanity, so it is fair to attribute his to
the use of the drugs.

LAHORE;                                                                                    W. COATES, M.D.,

31st January 1894.                                                             Superintendent, Lunatic Asylum.

In case of Dullo, son of Mya Das, Khatri, resident of Wazirabad, the following history
is disclosed. Dullo while still a child got into the habit of smoking charas and madak.
He led a wandering mendicant's life, stealing his mother's jewels and selling them for
purpose of obtaining drugs, to which be became accustomed. After stripping his mother
of all her property he took to begging and never set himself to honest work. The mother
says she did not accustom her son to opium by giving him any when an infant. Dullo's
father was in the habit of taking small quantities of opium, which, however, did him no
harm; he was not addicted to charas or bhang.

Dullo was sent to the Lunatic Asylum in October 1892, and was discharged in May last.
He is still silly though not insane.

He is now a prisoner in the Gujranwala Jail and is quiet and well behaved, but he can-
not resist grinning when spoken to and doing silly things at times.

16th January 1894.

————Tahsildar,

of Wazirabad in the Gujranwala District.

R. CROSSLEY,

Civil Surgeon, Gujranwala.

                                                  12.—Jinda Shah.

Jinda Shah, 25 years, a Mussalman beggar, admitted to Lunatic Asylum in Novem-
ber 1892; died of diarrhœa in November 1893. His brother gives a very clear history of
the case, from which it appears that Jinda Shah was a confirmed user of Indian hemp in