No. 13864 / H—318-1933.

FROM

              COLONEL L. COOK, C.I.E., M.B., B.S., F.R.C.S., I.M.S.,
                     INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF CIVIL HOSPITALS,
                                                                                    BIHAR AND ORISSA,

To

       THE SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF
                     BIHAR AND ORISSA, LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT
                                                                                    DEPARTMENT.

                                   Dated Patna, the 15th November 1933.

SUBJECT.—Triennial report on the working of the Ranchi Indian Mental Hospital at Kanke
                                                        for the years 1930-32.

SIR,

I HAVE the honour to submit for the information of
Government the Superintendent's report on the working of the
Ranchi Indian Mental Hospital at Kanke for the triennium
ending 1932 with the usual statistical returns in the prescribed
forms.

2.  Whereas many improvements and expansion projects
have been shelved owing to financial reasons, it must be recorded
that the restriction in admissions imposed upon the magisterial
officers in the two provinces has had a salutary effect in
mitigating the problem of overcrowding in the institution.

3.  This important question of admission into one institution
with an accommodation for 1,336 patients from two provinces
the total population of which amounts to 93,000,000 must appear
to more advanced nations as a form of discrimination which has
reached a fine art, or that the administration is neglecting an
important and obvious social duty.

4.  There is an obligation on the administration to admit
criminal insanes into a mental hospital, and whereas the
accommodation for criminal insanes in this mental hospital is
limited, it imposes the retention of the overflow in the local jails.