In-door patients.
Mortality.
Mortality among
Christians,
compared with
previous years.
Among natives.
Statistics of
Christian patients.
Fevers.
Dysentery and
diarrhœa.
Cholera.
Vital statistics of
Native patients.
Fever.
Dysentery and
diarrhœa.
Cholera.
REPORT ON THE MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL
For the year 1873.
DURING the year 4,203 in-door patients were treated (exclusive of those admitted to the
eye infirmary), being 425 fewer than in the previous year, and 315 in excess of 1871.
Of these, 540 cases were fatal. This gives a mortality of 128.5 per thousand, against
115.8 in 1872, 126.28 in 1871, 138.78 in 1870, and 179.40 in 1869.
Of these 540 deaths, 110 occurred in less than 24 hours after admission into hospital.
If these moribund cases were excluded from the return, as offering no hope for success
-
ful treatment, the death-rate would be reduced to 105.05 per thousand of the number
treated. The corresponding numbers for the two previous years were 90.9 for 1872 and
106.2 for 1871.
These figures show a greater mortality for 1873 than for the year immediately
preceding; but it was below that of every other year since 1863. The increased rate of
mortality was general, and was not confined to any single class of patients, but was
observed equally amongst Europeans, East Indians, and Natives, and it was irrespective
of age or sex; thus :—
Of the above number of patients, 1,813 were Christians. This term includes Europeans
and Indo-Europeans or Eurasians. Of these 108 died, or 59.5 per thousand. The death-rate
amongst Christians for 1872 was 56.7; for 1871, 55
.
8. It was 65.3 in 1870; 78.9 in 1869;
87.3 in 1868.
The Native in-patients numbered 2,390, of whom 432 died, or 180.7 per thousand. The
corresponding rates in the five preceding years were in 1872, 168.7; in 1871, 185.2; in 1870,
198.2; in 1869, 253.4 ; and in 1868, 255.94 ; and for the preceding 15 years, 235.48.
STATISTICS OF CHRISTIAN PATIENTS.
Moribunds.
The death-rate among Christian patients, 59.5 per thousand, was not so low as in the
two years immediately preceding, but was lower than that of any other year since 1863.
The cases of fever among Christians were 296, of which 9 were fatal, or 30.4 per
thousand.
The cases of dysentery and diarrhœa were 168, and the deaths 8, or 47.6 per thousand.
There were 44 cases of cholera and 23 deaths, giving a mortality rate of 522.7 per
thousand. With the exception of the previous year, when the death-rate was unprecedentedly
high, this is a higher mortality than has occurred amongst Christians since 1866. In 1872 it
was 692.3 ; in 1871, 321.4 per thousand ; and in 1870 it was 312.5.
VITAL STATISTICS OF NATIVE PATIENTS.
The death-rate amongst Native patients, 180.2 per thousand, was not so low as in the
Preceding year, but it was lower than that of any other year since 1863.
There Were 401 cases of fever and 57 deaths, or 142.1 per thousand. Of these 57 deaths,
24 were moribund on admission. If these were excluded, the death-rate would be 87.53
per thousand.
Out of 162 cases of dysentery and diarrhœa, 24 proved fatal, or 154.3 per thousand.
Of these 24 deaths, 5 occurred within 24 hours after admission. Excluding these, the
death-rate would be reduced to 137.68 per thousand.
From cholera there were 83 deaths out of 149 cases, or 557.04 per thousand. Of these
83 deaths, 20 occurred within 6 hours after admission into hospital. If these were excluded,
the death-rate would be reduced to 488.37 per thousand.
Mortality Rates of Fevers, 1873.
Per thousand.
Christians
. . .
. . .
. . .
. . . ...
...
...
. . . ... 30.4
Natives ...
... ...
. . .
. . .
...
...
...
...
... 142.1
Since May last six cases of fever, believed to be of the true enteric type, have occurred
in this hospital—one in May, three in June, one in August, and one in December.
Mortality rates of
fevers.