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REPORT ON THE
Income and
expenditure.
Superintendent.
Statistics.
devotedness' and gentle disposition of Mrs. Coreya, the nurse of my own European male ward. I
have no doubt that the officers of the hospital staff could, if necessary, from direct knowledge,
speak with equal praise of other nurses of the institution. It is further right to add that, in
my opinion, we, the Members of the College Hospital staff, are greatly indebted to the ladies
of the Nurses' Committee for their most disinterested services in connection with the hospital.
No one can more fully appreciate, than I do, the broad charity and kindness by which they
are actuated, and I most confidently affirm (and it affords me much pleasure to do so) that
the interest which they are good enough to take in the supervision of our nurses is produc-
tive of signal benefit to the public."
28. The income of the hospital for the year 1876, derived from all sources, was
Rs. 2,26,973-4-3, and the expenditure, exclusive of the cost of Europe medicines supplied by
Government which the Officiating Principal (in his letter No. 147, of the 16th April 1877, to
the Deputy Surgeon-General of the Presidency Circle,) states that he was unable to supply,
amounted to Rs. 1,18,080-7-2, so that there was a balance in hand to the credit of the
hospital, on the 31st December 1876, of Rs. 1,08,892-13 . 1. This account of income and
expenditure will be shown in detail along with that of the other Calcutta medical institutions
iu statement No. II of the Appendix.
PRESIDENCY GENERAL HOSPITAL.
SURGEON-MAJOR J. ELLIOT, M.D., by whom the Annual Report has been submitted,
assumed the superintendence of this hospital on the 31st March 1876, vice Surgeon-Major
Evart, M.D., who proceeded to England on 19 months' furlough.
2. From the following table an accurate idea can be obtained of the principal statistical
events in connection with. the in-door department of this hospital during the past year:—
1876.
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Christian and Native.
(Males
...
. . . 108 9,101 2,209 2,029
94
86
Christian patients.
Europeans
...
... Females
...
10
189
199
178
11
10
( Children ...
...
Males
...
...
7
21
111
353
118
374
109
332
4
20
5
22
Daily average
number of
Eurasians
...
... Females ...
...
11
233
244
220
13
11
sick.
Children ...
...
4
120
121
114
5
5
Males
...
...
11
240
251
213
13
25
Males ...
... 140'55
Other Classes ...
... Females ...
...
/
1
40
41
41
. . .
. . .
Females ...
...
23'85
Children ...
...
...
9
9
9
Children ...
...
11'78
173 3,396 3,569 3,245
----
160 164
Total ... 176'18
Total Christians
...
...
...
...
4 148 152
141
4
13
/Males
Mussulmans
...
... Females ...
...
...
1
1 .....
1
...
Native patients.
Children ...
...
...
..
......
...
...
...
...111ales
...
...
Ilindoos
Females ...
Children ......
14
...
235
11
...
2. 49
11
...
191
9
......
42
1
...
9
1
...
Daily average
number of
sick.
M ales
...
...
3
12
15 ......
12
4
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Other Castes
... Females ...
...
...
2
2
Total ...
...
22'03
Children ...
...
...
...
......
...
...
Total Natives
...
...
21 409 430
343
60
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GRAND TOTAL
...
...
220
194 3,805 3,999 3,588
—.--
191
Total number
treated.
Compared with
1875.
Admission of
Christian patients.
Mortality.
3. The total number of in-door patients treated during the year was (Christians 3,596,
Natives 430) 3,999, of which (Christians 3,396, Natives 409) 3,805 were fresh admissions.
In 1875 the total number treated amounted to (Christians 2,905, Natives 329) 3,234, so
that the figures show an increase of (Christians 664, Natives 101) 765 during 1876. The
number of Christian patients admitted during 1876 exceeds that of 1875 by 650. Of the
total number treated (Christians 3,245, Natives 343), 3,588 were discharged cured, &c., or
at the rate of (Christians 90 . 92, Natives 79 . 76) 89 . 72 per cent. There were (Christians 160,
Natives 60) 220 deaths, or at the rate of (Christians 4 . 48, Natives 13 . 96) 5 . 50 per cent.
of total number treated. Analyzing these figures further, it is found that amongst the
European patients the mortality of the males, per cent. of total number treated, was 4.25
per cent., of females, 5 . 52 per cent., and of children, 3 . 38 per cent. Of the European patients,
the mortality of the males, 'females, and children were 5 . 34, 5 . 32, and 4 . 03 per cent. respec-
tively. The average daily number of sick (excluding the Sumbhoo Nath Pundit's Ward)
was 176 . 18, which Dr. Elliot states was a decided increase on the average of the previous
ten years, and also considerably in excess of that of any other year in the decennial period
immediately preceding the one now under report, with the exception of 1872, when the