CALCUTTA MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.
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5. The ratio in which the different races have applied for medical aid
from the medical institutions of Calcutta during the past five years remains
pretty constant.
1874.
1875.
1876.
1877.
Average of
four years. 1878.
Europeans
2.41
3.18
2.96
3.70
3.06
3.23
Eurasians
11.80 11.83
11.00 10.57 11.30 10.02
Mahomedans
33.23 34.64 33.13 33.15 33.54 34.37
Hindus
49.93
47.64 49.29 49.69 49.14 48.75
Others
2.63
2.81
3.60
2.88
2.98
3.63
6. Statement No. IV gives a general idea of the tables of mortality,
contrasting the results of last year with those of ten previous years, distin
guishing the mortality from cholera, and showing also the number of deaths
registered by the municipality and the death-rate of the town calculated on
the population of Calcutta. The average annual hospital death-rate from all
diseases for the ten years from 1868 to 1877 has been 152.1 per thousand, so
that last year it was very considerably in excess of that rate, having been 160.
In 1877 it was 133. The average rate of mortality in the town for the above
ten years has been 27.9. In 1878 it is said to have been 38.1. The mean
annual death-rate of cholera cases treated in the hospitals of Calcutta from 1868
to 1877 has been 490.8. Last year it was 555 per Dille. It will further be
observed from the statement that the rate of mortality from cholera has gradually
been increasing in the hospitals of Calcutta year after year since 1873.
STATEMENT No. IV.
YEARS.
ALL DISEASES.
CHOLERA.
Death-rate
excluding
cholera.
Number of
deaths regis-
tered by the
municipality.
Rate per
mille of
population
Treated.
Died.
Died
Treated.
Died.
Died per mille
1868
16,996
3,386
199
1,224
563
461
179
13,736
32
1869
18,035
3,043
169
1,144
558
487
147
12,795
29.8
1870
15,816
2,250
142
605
258
426
131
10,462
24.4
1871
17,325
2,288
132
255
112
439
127
10,299
24
1872
20,805
2,761
132
488
217
484
125
11,923
27.8
1873
18,896
2,706
143
492
264
536
132
11,558
26.9
1874
20,331
3,197
157
666
339
509
145
12,641
29.4
1875
22,806
3,815
167
787
405
515
154
15,069
35
1876*
21,832
3,226
147
740
399
539
134
12,964
30.2
1877*
24,822
3,308
133
574
294
512
124
13,704
31.9
1878*
28,661
4,611
160
603
335
555
152
16,396
38.1
* Exclusive of eye cases treated in Eye Infirmary.
7. Principal diseases among house patients.— Information on this subject
may be gathered from the next statement. Malarious fever has been the prin
cipal disease treated, there having been 8,412 cases among Europeans and
natives, with 660 deaths, or 78.4 per Dille. There were 603 cases of cholera
and 335 deaths, or 555.5 per thousand. Last year small-pox prevailed all over
the country, to a considerable extent in the hospitals of Calcutta, but chiefly in
the Campbell Hospital : 319 cases were treated and 135 died, or 423.2 per 1,000.
Next we find 695 cases of rheumatism and 21 deaths, and 617 of syphilis with
17 deaths. Of consumption there were 418 cases with 172 deaths, which is at
the rate of 17 per cent. For dysentery 2,831 patients were treated, of whom 900
died, or 317.9 per mille. There were 2,605 cases of diarrhoea and 916 deaths,
or 351.6 per thousand. Of spleen disease 1,085 cases were treated, of whom
123 died, or 113.3 per mille. There were 939 cases of ulcer and 69 deaths, and
416 cases of labour with 28 deaths. Of cases of poison and poisoned wound
170 were treated, out of whom 29 died. One thousand four hundred and
twenty-four cases of injuries are returned, with 124 deaths.