Great increase in
the number of
patients.
Increase at all
institutions, with
two exceptions.
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REPORT ON THE CALCUTTA MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.
6. From this table we see that there has been a very great increase in the number of
patients treated during 1875, the excess being 50,435 patients (2,426 in-door and 48,009
o u t - d o o r ) o v e r t h e t o t a l n u mb e r t r e a t e d i n 1 8 7 4 .
7. This increase in the total number of patients treated was contributed to by all the
institutions with the exception of the North Suburban Hospital and the Alipore Dispensary,
but it is principally due to the vastly increased number of persons treated at the
"in" and "out-door" departments of the Mayo Hospital and its associated dispensaries,
as well as at the out door departments of the Presidency and Howrah General Hospitals.
8. These figures, in the absence of any epidemic disease or of unusual sickness, are
the more satisfactory, since they demonstrate that the classes for whose benefit these hospitals
and dispensaries were opened are not slow to avail themselves of the medical and surgical
advice obtainable at them.
9. Statement No. II shows the caste, sex, and age of 303,918 out of the 313,462
patients (in and out-door) treated in the Calcutta medical institutions during 1875.
Unfortunately these particulars, as affecting 9,544 out-door patients treated at the
Presidency General Hospital, were not recorded—an omission which I had occasion to notice
in last year's report, but which will not again, I hope, require comment.
Caste and sex of
patients.
Statement No. II.
Males.
Females.
Children.
Total.
Europeans
5,309
1,209
830
7,348
Eurasians.
11,469
8,393
16,020
35,882
Mahomedans.
57,853
14,143
28,933
100,929
Hindoos
104,266
22,162
25,332
151,760
Other castes
2,455
2,204
3,340
7,999
Total
1 8 1 , 3 5 2
48,111
74,455
303,918
10. Of these 303,918 patients 181,352 were males, 48,111 were females, and 74,455
were children under ten years of age; or at the rate of 59·67 per cent. of males, 15·83 per cent.
of females, and 24·49 per cent. of children. For the sake of comparison these percentages
of each class treated are shown along with those of the three previous years:—
1872.
1873.
1874.
1875.
Males
64·9
61·8
59·85
59·67
Females
16·3
15·5
16·59
15·83
Children
18·8
22·7
23·39
24·49
11. It is seen that while the percentages of males and females were slightly lower for
the year 1875, the rate of children treated has been steadily increasing since the year 1872.
12. It is also ascertained from a further analysis of the figures in statement No. II
that the proportion per cent. of each race to the total treated was as follows, the rates of the
year 1874 being also given for sake of comparison:—
1874.
1875.
Europeans
3·18
2·41
Eurasians
11·83
11·80
Mahomedans
34·64
33·20
Hindoos
47·53
49·93
Other castes
2·81
2·63
13. These figures show an increase in the numbers of Hindoo patients, which is almost
exactly equal to the decrease in the number of patients of the remaining classes.
Statistics
according to
caste, &c.
Percentage of each
race to the total
number treated.
Increase of Hindoo
patients.
Statement No. III.
HOSPITAL.
CENSUS RETURNS.
Male. Female. Children. Male. Female.
Eu ropeans
72·25
16·45
11·3
60·5
39·5
Eu rasians
31·96
23·39
44·65
Mahomedaus
57·32
14·01
28·67
27·5
72·5
H indoos
68·7
14·6
16·7
65·0
35·0
Other castes
30·69
27·65
41·76
65·4
34·6
14. Statement No. III exhibits
the percentage of each caste accord
-
ing to sex on the total of each caste
treated, and in comparison with the
rate of each caste on the census
returns of 1872.
This statement calls for no special
remark, beyond this, that in the
census returns there was unfortu
-
nately no separate entry made of
Europeans and Eurasians, both
classes being entered under the
denomination of Christians.
Proportion of each
caste according to
sex to total of each
caste treated.