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REPORT ON THE CALCUTTA MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.
contracted out of the limits of the Act. Taking, for the sake of just comparison, only those
institutions in which the locality of infection has been recorded, we arrive at the followinc,
statement :—
Table VII.
1871.
1872.
1873.
Medical College
.. 1 Calcutta and Sbs
Suburbs
Elsewhere
.••
...
1 270
;
764
1,060
609
966
984
Sukea's Street
—
f Calcutta and Suburbs
Z Elsewhere
•••
.
" ...
360
107
405
94
437
65
Alipore
. f Calcutta and Suburbs
Z Elsewhere
...
...
...
16
1
18
......
6
45
General Hospital
... Calcutta and Suburbs
/ Elsewhere
•••
...
...
90
• 41
120
20
103
52
Pauper Hospital
... Calcutta and Suburbs
/ Elsewhere
•••
...
...
93
78
90
130
180
103
Chitpore
—
i Calcutta and Suburbs
Z Elsewhere
•••
...
250
334
267
227
212
242
Chandney
"'
Calcutta and Suburbs
Z Elsewhere
...
...
......
......
560*
998
281*
1,244
Park Street
—
5 Calcutta and Suburbs
Z Elsewhere
•••
...
...
......
......
398*
••• •••
304A
37
Total
... Calcutta and Suburbs
/ Elsewhere
...
...
2,109
1,325
1,960
1,170*
1,001
1,491*
* Excluded from total.
For want of earlier record, I am unable to compare the larger number of imported eases
at Chandney Hospital with previous years ; but excluding them fromthe total, and comparing
only the institutions whose records admit of it, we find that decrease of indigenous disease
progresses steadily.
13. It is important to watch separately the progress of primary syphilis under the Act.
Statistics of
primary syphilis
in Calcutta
hospitals.
Table VIII.
4.4clmissions from Primary Syphilis from 1867-73.
Chandn ey
Hospital.
Sukea's Street
Dispensary.
Medical
College.
Park Street
Dispensary.
Gurrunhatta
Dispensary.
Chitpore
Dispensary.
Total syphilis,
primary.
1867...
1,151
213
.1,147
378
1,932
1.119
5,943
1868
...
935
181
1,087
31S
1,505
658
4,684
1869
829
150
621
237
1,148
439
3,753
1870
...
619
76
468
107
1,157
309
2,730
1871
...
445
107
5:50
S3
641
325
2,154
1S72
...
407
73
575
77
546
167
1,815
1873
010
76
581
81
917
191
2,469
Unfortunately at the large Gurrunhatta Dispensary, which receives many patients from
the river population, no separate record of imported disease is kept ; but omitting this from
the calculation, it is inown that among the others there were in 1873 no less than 922 cases
of imported syphilis, against 509 in 1872.
14. Still making every allowance for imported disease, it seems that there has been
small increase of primary syphilis on the previous year, and the increase has been largest in
the portion of the town which I understand to be occupied most largely by unregistered
women, viz. the section in which the Gurrunhatta Dispensary is situated.
15. I proceed to examine and report on the health of the European garrison, Fort
William. In my supplementary report on the Lock Hospitals for the year 1872, submitted
in June last, I presented an amended statement of the quantity of disease in the garrison
during that year. The table of military venereal disease under the operation of the Act
stands now as follows :—
Table IX.
Ratio per cent. of venereal cases to mean strength of Garrison.
1869
—
...
...
...
...
...
... 25'08
1870
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
14'40
187
•..
...
...
...
...
...
8'10
1872
...
...
...
...
...
... 13'9
1873
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