The Punjab Asylums' Report
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Thk Asylums in the Punjab are situated at Lahore and Delhi. The former is the larger, having a daily average population of 238*09 as compared with 111*23 in the latter. The report on the Lahore Asylum points to rather an unsatisfactory condition of affairs. The buildings are unsuitable, the expenditure was high, and the warder establishment worked b'dly. There were 40 deaths, the highest number on record with the exception of that in 1892. Of these 22 resulted from lung diseases (pneumonia 14, tubercle 7, acute pneumonic phthisis 1). It is stated that the pneumonia \yas infective in type, and that the inmates were "favourably placed for its spread." There were 7 deaths from dysentery and diarrhoea, and it is specially noted that " these ailments are favoured by the buildings having mud floors and walls, thus affording material for the earth-eaters to devour." The statistics of the Delhi Asylum compare favourably with those at Lahore. There were 11 deaths, giving a percentage of 9"88 deaths to the daily average strength
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