Report received through the Superintendent, Dharwar Asylum, on the Hemp Drug case of 1892.

RETURNED to the District Magistrate, with a statement of one Laxumi, mother of lunatic Dariappa, in original as required. The wife of Dariappa was present, but she could not give any information on the points required to be cleared, and consequently her statement was not taken down.

Evidence by Laxumi.

MY name is Laxumi. My husband's name is Shidda. My age is about 45 years. My caste is Uppur. I reside at Mhasali, Taluka Indi of Bijapur District. I support myself on manual labour.
I am mother of the lunatic Dariappa bin Shidappa. He is my only son. I have got a daughter, who is married and who now lives with her husband. M v husband died in or about 1876. My husband died a natural death. He was not addicated to " ganja.". He never took any intoxicant—neither " ganja," nor liquor nor opium. I never used any of these things. I had given some " ganja " to my son Dariappa as a medicine while he was six months old. I washed a little of " ganja" in milk and gave the milk to him two or three times. Ever since no " gahja " or any other hemp drug was either given by me to him as medicine or taken by Dariappa for medicinal purposes. I did not see my son smoke "ganja" ever. If he had ever done so I did not come to know of it. He may or he may not have taken " ganja" smoke previous to his being insane. He was given " ganja " smoke by one of his friends once or twice about a couple of months previous to his becoming insane, but when I came to know of it I gave him a beating, and consequently he left smoking since that day. He did not again take to "ganja" smoking. I cannot state how he then became insane. Dartappa worked as a labourer in my village. He sometimes drove carts. " Ganja" is sold at the village Tamba, which is about six miles from my village. When I gave a beating to Dariappa I had learnt that he was smoking "ganja" and not drinking "bhang."

BIJAPUR ;    A. R. CHITRE, Magistrate.
The 18th December 1893.  
C. T. PETERS, M.D., Brigade-Surreon-Lieutenant-Colonel, Civil Surgeon, Bijapur.