Daily average sick.
Prevailing diseases.
EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT ON THE SUKEA'S STREET
DISPENSARY
For the year 1873.
4. The institution has hitherto been entirely supported by government, receiving
donations on two or three occasions for the purchase of clothing, &c., from Native gentlemen.
5. It is situated in a healthy locality, thickly populated by people of both the richer
and poorer classes, by the latter of whom it is much largely resorted to.
6. The total number of new admissions as in-door patients in the year was 92, and that
of out-door patients 11,328. The following comparative statement of both classes of patients
treated during the last five years shows that in each successive year the institution has been
more and more largely resorted to, and this simple fact will go to establish that it is gradu
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ally becoming more and more popular, and that its benefits are being gradually appreciated.
In-patients.
Oat-patients.
1 8 6 9
57
1 8 6 0
9,360
1 1 8 7 0
6 0
1870
9 , 1 4 4
1 8 7 1
8 4
1871
10,677
1 8 7 2
83
1872
11,191
1873
92
1873
11,328
The daily average number of patients treated in the year is as follows:—
In-patients
6·92
o u t - p a t i e n t s
96·23
7. Of the diseases that prevailed amongst the out-patients, cases of intermittent fever
and its sequelæ, enlarged spleen and liver, were by far the most numerous. The total number
of such cases was 3,364 in the year under review, whereas the number in the preceding
year was 3,102. This increase may be satisfactorily accounted for by the fact that Calcutta
is being resorted to very largely by people from the fever-stricken districts of Burdwan and
elsewhere.
8. The number of syphilitic cases treated during the year was only slightly in excess
of that treated in the preceding year.
9. There were fewer surgical operations last year than in previous years. The greater
number of operations performed in this dispensary in former years were the removal of scrotal
tumours, as it was at one time the general impression of the Native community that such
operations were made in this dispensary alone. That impression has gradually worn off;
such operations being now performed both in the Medical College Hospital and the Mayo
Native Hospital.
So far as I know, cases of scrotal tumour used to come largely from Burdwan and its
adjoining districts. That there was such a sensible diminution in their number, I would
ascribe to deaths from malarious fever, and to the general bad health of the people still living,
which prevents them from seeking that relief by surgical operation which they would have
otherwise gladly and gratefully sought, knowing full well that a sound and strong constitu
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tion is absolutely necessary for their subsequent recovery.
10. Appendix A contains a list of cholera cases treated this year; the number greatly
exceeds that of the preceding year. Of these, three were in-patient cases, and the rest
out-patients. All the in-patients were discharged cured. Of the out-patients all were also
discharged cured, excepting two, in whose cases the result is not known, as they absconded
after admission.
C. MACNAMARA,
MONEYLALL DUTT, L.M.S,
Superintendent of Sukea's Street Dispensary. 2nd Grade Sub-Assistant Surgeon, in Charge.
Attendance during
the past 5 years.
Surgical
operations.
Cholera.
APPENDIX A.
Statement of Cholera Cases treated at the Sukea's Street Dispensary in 1873.
R e g i s a t o r n u m b e r .
Date of
admission.
Name.
Age.
Sex.
Cast e.
Occupation.
Residence.
Cause
assigned
b y p a t i e n t s .
Result.
Date of discharge.
10 31st Jan.
Beepin
19 M.
H.
None
Bura Bazar
None ... Cured ... 12th Feb.
1 6 25th March Shama Churn
30 M. H.
Sircar
Sukea's Street
, ,
...
, , ... 26th March.
5 4 13th Aug.
Notobur
18 M. H. Engraver
Champatolah
„ , ,
....
, , ... 17th Aug.
1 8 4 2
1 3 t h M a r c h Ameerun
30 F. M. None
.. Sukca's Street
, ,
...
, , ... 17th March.
1 8 8 0 14th ,,
Ram
33 M. H. Goldsmith
Maniktolah
, ,
... Unknown Ceased to attend.
2025
1 9 t h , ,
Bhootee
2 F. H.
None
Sukea's Street
, ,
...
,,
Ditto.
2777 14th April
Holodhur
22 M. H. Coolie
Maniktolah
„ , ,
... Cured ... 16th April.
3213
1st May
Muneeroodeen
26 M. M. Tailor
Sukea's Street
, ,
...
, , ... 4th May.