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                                        GOVERNMENT OF MADRAS.

                                           JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT.

READ—the following paper :—

From the Surgeon-General with the Government of Madras, dated Fort St.
         George, 9th September 1890, No. 686.

ABSTRACT.—Submitting the annual report and statistics showing the working of the Lunatic
Asylums in the Presidency for 1889.

ORDER—dated 19th December 1890, No. 2067, Judicial.

The report on the administration of Lunatic Asylums during 1889 discloses no
facts of particular importance and calls for but few remarks.

2.  A prominent feature of the report for 1888 was the decline in admissions, and
in its review the Government observed that this decrease must be ascribed solely to
the want of accommodation; the same circumstance was again noticeable in 1889 and
was no doubt due to the same cause. This matter will be referred to again in con-
nection with criminal lunatics.

3.  Statistics in regard to the lunatic population under treatment in the asylums
appear in the following statement:—

The next table contains particulars of the results obtained in the three asylums
viewed as curative institutions:—

On the whole, these results are not entirely satisfactory, for, although the propor-
tion of cures was higher than in the preceding year, it was lower than the average of
the decade; the death-rate was also unusually high. But in spite of the fact that
1889 contrasted unfavorably with the preceding years, a comparison with the results

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