cot and on that of Siv Ram, who slept two beds off with The marks showed a peculiar cona vacant bed between. formation of the toes which exactly corresponded with the foot of Siv Ram Das. I had great difficulty in believing that such extensive internal injuries could have been caused in the way indicated, and had diligent search made for any weapon which could have been introduced through the rectum, but without the success. No marks of blood were found on Siv Ram, but he had bathed before he was examined. Siv Ram was tried for the offence by the Magistrate but found incapable of making his defence, and he was transferred from the non-criminal (under-trial) class of lunatics by Government letter No.232T. dated the 3()th September 1878, to the Officiating Joint Magistrate of

Dacca. Siv Ram was not previously known to be addicted to sodomy, and he could never before have practised it 011

the deceased, for the latter had

always

been in

hospital

till the night of the occurrence. Only one of the inmates is given to this offence, and he attempted to commit it in January last, but was prevented. He and Siv

are now always locked up in solitary cells, where they fed, and sleep, being conducted to and from the oil mill, when they work, by a burkundaz. No fewer than four lunatics are locked up together except those in solitary cells, and in addition to these precautions, I have had additional lights hung in the dormitories so as to prevent, as far as possible, a recurrence of such painful

Ram

are

cases.

A REMARKABLE CASE OF SODOMY.

[The Surgeon-General for Bengal has obligingly furus with the following interesting extract from the

nished

report of the Dacca Asylum for the year 1878 by Surgeon A. Crombie, M. D.?Ed., I. M. G.J

One of the cases returned under the head of Surgery, occurred under circumstances f the most painful and shocking nature. On the night of the 5th of September twenty-five lunatics were locked up in a dormitory close to the Overseer's house. At 9 p. m. one of them, who was somewhat excited and making a great deal of noise, was removed to a solitary cell ; then all was quiet. At 10 p. M. one of the number was heard to be groaning, and the keeper on guard entering, found him sitting up and complaining of a pain in the abdomen. He was a weakminded man with ptosis of the left eye, whose case was noted in last year's report, but who had improved very much, and had that morning been discharged from hospital. He was removed to hospital where he died in six hours. I made a post mortem examination next morning, and found the following extraordinary injuries. There was a rupture of the sphincter ani and of the rectum above Dunglisson's fold, and three feet of the small intestine lying in the pelvis were separated from their attachment to the mesentery. Every organ of the body, including the mesentery, rectum and intestines, was in a state of extreme fatty degeneration so as to be lacerable with a It was obvious that the very small amount of force. separation of the small intestines from its mesentery had been caused by a blunt instrument introduced through the anus, and which had passed through the friable anterior wall of the rectum into the cavity of the pelvis. I immediately enquired into the whole circumstances of the case and reported the matter to the Police. One of the lunatics not knowing the cause of the death then volunteered the statement that he had seen another lunatic named Siv Ram Das commit sodomy on the deceased at the time when it must have occurred, i. e. about 9-30 p. M. On examining the place where the unfortunate man had slept, marks of bloody footsteps were found on his

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