- 22 -It includes administrative buildings, houses for doctors and employees, and private houses where paying lunatics reside. It also covers the repair of old buildings and their adaptation to the treatment of lunatics. There are 75 lunatics in Tura Prison who reside there temporarily, and their expenses are not included in the aforementioned expenses. They are separate from the 1,300 in Abbasiya. The number of lunatics admitted annually to Abbasiya has not increased significantly; it was 614 in 1894, 578 in 1909, and 772 in 1910. The increase in those present in the hospital is due to: Firstly, a decrease in the average annual mortality rate from 33% (of the average daily number of lunatics) in 1894 to 10% in 1909. Secondly, the decision not to discharge many dangerous lunatics who were previously discharged, then readmitted, then discharged again, and so on, thus artificially increasing the number of admissions. 544 lunatics were treated in local hospitals in 1909, in addition to the 578 sent to Abbasiya Hospital. It is likely that each of the lunatics treated in local hospitals should have been treated in a lunatic asylum, but the beds at Abbasiya Hospital were all occupied. The number of lunatics apprehended in the country in 1909 was 1122. The census of 1907 stated that the number of lunatics was 5447, and their number may be higher. Since 1895, it has been recognized that 2,000 beds are needed in the lunatic asylum to accommodate those sent and admitted there at present. A plan has been developed to reach this number of beds, sooner or later, by expanding Abbasiya Hospital to accommodate 1150 beds. It currently has 1007 beds and will be added 143 beds in 1911 through a new special appropriation. Construction of Khanka Hospital will begin in 1911 with 240 beds, gradually increasing to 1000 beds, bringing the total number of beds in the two hospitals to 2150. The amount paid by relatives of lunatics increased from £226 in 1895 to £5000 in 1910. The increase in the expenses of the Ministry of Works is due to the conversion of irrigation in Giza Governorate to summer irrigation, which necessitated the Irrigation Department to dredge and maintain new canals, incurring new expenses of approximately £13,000.