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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    23. Forms of Mental Disorders.—The Principal forms of Mental disorder treated during the period under report were :— Mental Hospitals, Thana, Batnagiri, -— Yeravda, Ahmedabad and Baroda. Mental Hospital, Dharwar. Mania 768 16 Maniac Depressive Insanity 809 125 Melancholia 231 32 Schizophrenia (including Dementia praecox) 2,932 121 Neurosis and Psychoneurosis 19 1 Mental Deficiency 652 15 Epilepsy and Epileptic Insanity 315 38 Statement No. VIX. 24. Probable causes of insanity among patients :— Mental Hospitals, Thana, Batnagiri, Mental Hospital^ Yeravda, Ahmedabad Dharwar. and Baroda. 1. Mental Stress • • • ••• • 0 « 824 36 2. Toxins • • • • • 0 ••• 111 2 3. Hereditary Predisposition 170 1 4. Bodily illness • •• • • • • « » 157 4. Old age * 0 • • » » • • 9 32 2 6. Epilepsy ••• ••• ••• 91 1 7. Previous attack ••• ••• ••• 310 3 8. Syphilis • * ° • • • ••• 73 1 Statement No. VIII. 25. Cash Accounts Receipts.—The receipts from paying patients during the period from 1st January 1956 to 31st October 1956 at the Mental Hospitals, Thana, Batnagiri, Yeravda, Ahmedabad and Baroda amounted to Rs. 4,81,443 as against Rs. 4,87,735 in 1955. The value of stores received from Manufacturing Department less the cost of raw materials at the above Hospitals was Rs. 41,034 and miscellaneous receipts amounted to Rs. 24,128. The total receipts J