Reports on the asylums for European and native insane patients at Bhowanipore and Dullunda for 1856 and 1857.

Date:
1858
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Credit: Reports on the asylums for European and native insane patients at Bhowanipore and Dullunda for 1856 and 1857. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ( ^ ) plans and estimates have been prepared, and are waiting till it shall become expedient to resume the temporarily suspended public works. 5, In the Report on the Asylum at Dullunda, the details follow in the order adopted in that on the Bhowanipore Asylum. 6. His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal* and the Honorable the Court of Directors,f* having been pleased, on recent occasions, to mark with their approbation the management of the Asylum at Dullunda, it is unnecessary in this place to advert to the improve- ments of the}mars 1856 and 1857. An increase of the Subordinate Establishment has naturally caused additional expenditure. But then, for the first time, the Balance Sheet exhibits some receipts, earned by the voluntary labour of the Patients. That the Asylum, in point of occupa- ' tion, as an adjuvant of moral treatment, has gained a step in advance is due to certain favourable conditions which are not enjoyed by the Asylum at Bhowanipore. The Native Patients belong to the labouring classes, to whom, therefore, handicraft is suitable. In European Soldiers and Sailors, and in Country-born persons, habits of industry have to be inculcated. Besides at Bhowanipore, as shown elsewhere, the means to make such attempts have hitherto been wanting. 7. The accompanying case contains samples °^ ^*^*^^***^^^ Jute, 'both cultivated and manufactured by Ditto of Rope, of sorts, the Native Patients at Dullunda.* I venture to Ditto of Twine. t •. i <- , t . Model of Twisting solicit the favour that I may be permitted res. pectfully to submit these samples to the Hon’ble the Court of Directors. I have the honor to be. Sir, Your most obedient Servant, THEODORE CANTOR, M. D., Surgeon, Superintendent of the Asylums for European and Native Insanes at Bhowanipore and Dullunda. * Letter No. 3176, from the Junior Secre- tary to the Government of Bengal to the Ma- gistrate of the 24-Pergunnahs, dated Fort Wil- liam, the 20th October 1856. Letter No. 3985, from the Junior Secretary to the Government of Bengal, to the Magis- trate of the 24-Pergunnahs, dated Fort Wil- liam, the 21st November 1857. t Para. 55 of a Despatch from the Hon’ble the Court of Directors, to the Government of In- dia, in the Judicial Depai'tment, No. 3 of 1858, dated the 26th January.