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2 fcstttl'li.htxi at Lahore, arid will now inform die wader of iV
3 origin of that establishment.
4 Major Mac Gregor, the director of tin; police at Lahore, on
5 passing the 'bazaar on horseback,' was one day stopped by a
6 woman, who was believed to be insane. On account of this'
7 accident, tin- Resident issued an order that the durbar should
8 establish an asylum for such persons. 1 was consulted upon
9 the subject, and it was resolved that such patients should be
10 received into my uospital. Accordingly, many lunatics were
11 brought there, end they were generally followed by a great
12 many .curious spectators. I suev. did in curing, in the course
13 ot two months, the first. live individuals under my simoriri-
14 tendance, which fact I communicated to the Rajah Teja Sin.;,
15 and lie ordered tne to present them to the assembly at till!
16 Residency of Anurkullec . which I did. Hut they manifested nrt
17 desire to Sec them, and looked upon the matter with indifference,
18 by which l began to perceive that my stay at Lahore was near
19 its end, and that die best tiling 1 could do was to return to
20 X?i«rojv. Neither did J think it necessary to wait for the at rival
21 of my assistant.'-, whom I had, with the permission of the
22 government, requested to crime over; namely, an apothecary and
23 a surgeon, front liurope. Both of these gentlemen had receive I
24 from me 'K>()0 florins for the expenses iif their journey, and 1
25 intended also to pay thdr salaries from on- own private purse;
26 for n my health was on the decline, in consequence of the many
27 affairs to which l had to attend, 1 was really longing for some
28 relief.
29 The imlilleronce shown to me, however in the Residency, did
30 not prevent me bom presenting the restored lunatics to t!m
31 native durbar at the Ibrtr, is, and 1 was ordered to send tlum
32 to their respective homes. The woman who stepped the police-
33 director at tin bazaar 1 presented to Major Mac Gregor wli.u
34 lie -v as in the Kotchery (office). They had committed her to
35 me in i most miserable state, nearly naked, and fettyred like a
36 wild lienst, now site was dressed in a white gown, and looking
37 piin gen led. Without having been invited to sit down, she