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DACCA LUNATIC ASYLUM. 77
No. 18.
Annual Expenditure incurred on account of the Lunatic Asylum at Dacca during the year 1872.
|
Rs. |
As. |
P. |
||
|
Establishment ... ... ... ... |
8,395 |
2 |
11 |
Inclusive of superintendent's |
|
Dieting ... ... ... ... ... |
*8,627 |
6 |
9½ |
|
|
Contingencies ... ... ... ... |
639 |
8 |
... |
* Exclusive of Rs. 399-12-2 paid |
|
Bazaar medicines ... ... ... ... |
96 |
14 |
9 |
|
|
Clothing and blankets bought in 1872 ... |
1,306 |
13 |
6 |
|
|
Total ... |
19,065 |
13 |
11* |
|
Daily average number of persons ... ... ... ... |
218.78 |
|
Average yearly cost per man ... ... ... ... |
87-7-3.95 |
|
Average yearly cost of dieting per man ... ... ... |
39-9-2 |
No. 19.
Abstract of estimated value of lunatic labor, for which no payment is recovered, for the
year 1872.
|
Nature of Work. |
Amount. |
||
|
Rs. |
A. |
P. |
|
|
Laying out asylum grounds (levelling ground, making roads, &c.) ... ... |
1,227 |
3 |
0 |
|
Manufacturing of soorkey for the making and repairing of roads in the asylum |
831 |
2 |
0 |
|
Work done in asylum by lunatic carpenter ... ... ... |
180 |
12 |
0 |
|
Making and repairing sheds ... ... ... ... ... |
60 |
0 |
0 |
|
Lunatic sweepers ... ... ... ... ... ... |
343 |
2 |
0 |
|
Cooly work ... ... ... ... ... ... |
200 |
0 |
0 |
|
Grinding flour ... ... ... ... ... ... |
195 |
0 |
0 |
|
White-washing and leeping walls, &c. ... ... ... ... |
258 |
6 |
0 |
|
Attendance on sick ... ... ... ... ... |
144 |
0 |
0 |
|
Cook's mates ... ... ... ... ... ... |
192 |
0 |
0 |
|
Bread-making ... ... ... ... ... ... |
182 |
8 |
0 |
|
Cutting and conveying canes to asylum for baskets ... ... ... |
122 |
8 |
0 |
|
Ditto grass, and for feeding cows and bullocks ... ... ... |
281 |
4 |
0 |
|
Lamplighter ... ... ... ... ... ... |
108 |
0 |
0 |
|
Cow-herd ... ... ... ... ... ... |
120 |
0 |
0 |
|
Office bearer ... ... ... ... ... ... |
60 |
0 |
0 |
|
Total ... |
4,505 |
13 |
0 |
No. 20.
Statement of profit of labor of lunatics in the Dacca Asylum during the year 1872.
|
Nature of Occupation. |
Amount. |
REMARKS. |
||
|
Rs. |
A. |
P. |
||
|
Garden produce ... ... ... ... |
85 |
15 |
4½ |
|
|
Soorkey ... ... ... ... |
1,167 |
14 |
6 |
|
|
Lunatic labor ... ... ... ... ... |
272 |
6 |
7 |
|
|
Basket and morah making ... ... ... |
78 |
13 |
0½ |
|
|
Carpentering ... ... ... ... |
69 |
13 |
8½ |
|
|
Cotton ... ... ... ... ... |
89 |
2 |
10½ |
|
|
Fuel ... ... ... ... ... |
64 |
7 |
8½ |
|
|
Total ... |
1,828 |
9 |
9½ |
|
|
Various works executed, as detailed in Form |
4,505 |
13 |
0 |
|
|
Total value of Lunatic Labor ... |
6,334 |
6 |
9½ |
|
|
Daily average number of lunatics in confinement ... ... ... |
218.78 |
|
Ditto ditto ditto employed ... ... ... |
182.45 |
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