Annual report on mental hospitals : 1956.

Date:
1956
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Credit: Annual report on mental hospitals : 1956. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    part II. Due to reorganisation of States from 1st November 1956, out of the six Mental Hospitals from the pre-reorganisation Bombay State, the Mental Hospital at Dharwar has been transferred to the Mysore State and three Mental Hospitals, viz. Mental Hospital, Nagpur, Mental Hospital, Akwada, Bhavnagar, and the Mental Hospital, Kutch, Bhuj, have been added to the New Bombay State. Thus there are now eight Mental Hospitals in the New Bombay State. General. 2. During the period from 1st November 1956 to 31st December 1956, the ^actual population in all the Mental Hospitals in the first week of November 1956 was 5,349 against the sanctioned accommodation of 3,075. During this period 85 patients were discharged as “cured ” and 97 as “ improved There were 259 cases under observation in the various Mental Hospitals. The total number of criminal insanes confined in Mental Hospitals was 332. The total receipts amounted to Rs. 92,934. The gross expenditure on maintaining ahe Mental Hospitals was Rs. 5,77,891. The separate information under each of the four units of the Mental Hospitals of the former Bombay State, Kutch, /Saurashtra and Vidarbha is given in the statements I to VIII. 3. Water Supply.—The position of water supply at the Mental Hospitals at 'Tirana, Baroda, Ahmedabad and Ratnagiri was same as mentioned in Part I of this report. However, the Mental Hospital, Nagpur, needs improvement in the water supply. I The administrative approval to plans and estimates amounting to Rs. 14,863 i was accorded by the former Government of Madhya Pradesh for effecting improvement in water supply at this Hospital. The work is being undertaken. I The water supply at the Mental Hospital, Bhuj, is not adequate. The water is j fetched from the city well. Due to the inadequacy of water, there is no garden ; or lawn at this Hospital. 4. Accommodation.—The following table shows the approved scale of s accommodation and the actual population in the first week of November 1956 at -each of the Mental Hospitals :— Mental Hospital. Sanctioned accommodation in 1st week of November 1956. Actual population in the first week of November 1956. Male. Female. Total. Male. Female. Total. Thana ... 240x50 150 440 942 721 1,663 Batnagiri ... 134X50 42 226 221 61 282 Yeravda ... 804x60 443 1,297 1,308 831 2,139 Ahmedabad ... 206X50 61 317 407 148 555 Baroda ... 100 55 155 86 43 129 Nagpur ... 458 152 610 416 136 552 Akwada (Bhavnagar) ... 18 • e • 18 12 6 18 Kutch ... 12 • * » 12 10 1 11 Total ...1972X200 903 3,075 3,402 1,947 5,349 Thus there were 2,274 patients (1,230 males and 1,044 females) in exces of the sanctioned accommodation. As shown in the above table, there is no over-crowding in the Mental Hospitals at Nagpur, Akwada and Kutch but there is an over-crowding at the Mental Hospitals of the former Bombay State except at the Mental Hospital, Baroda, sS • explained in the first part of the report.