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REPORT ON THE CALCUTTA MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.
be most properly dealt with by private philanthropy. The exercise of such philanthropy
a s
is common in most English towns owning a destitute class would very soon lessen the evil
here treated of ; but such an agency as this is scarcely procurable in India on a scale
sufficiently extensive to be of much use ; altogether, it is not easy to see what can be done
e x c e p t
to give each individual case all care and attention when it is brought to light. To this end
a new ward in connection with the hospital will immediately be built." These remarks are
equally applicable to the past year.
In illustration of the remarks above made, I insert the subjoined nominal return of
moribunds admitted since the receipt of the surgeon-general's order on the matter on the
24th October last :—
NAME.
Occupation.
Native place.
What
brought
him to
Howrah.
How did he come to
be so sick before he
was brought to
hospital.
Date of
admission.
Date of
death.
Time in
hospital.
1873.
1873.
Kaloo
Syce
Howrah
Service
None to look after him. 27th Oct.
30th Oct.
3 days.
Kopoor
Shopkeeper
Sulkea
Resident
Ditto ditto
27th ,,
30th ,,
3 ,,
Churamony
Nil
Gya
Service
Ditto ditto
28th ,,
30th ,,
2 ,,
Ram Churn
Durwan
Ditto
Ditto
Had no treatment from
the beginning and
none to look after him
30th „
4th Nov. ... 4 ,,
Sukha Missre
Blacksmith
Howrah
Ditto
Ditto ditto
30th ,,
4th ,,
4 ,,
Mungoo
Nil
Lucknow
Ditto
Ditto ditto
25th ,,
14th ,,
20 ,,
Syath Ali
Coolie
Howrah
Resident
Ditto ditto
10th Nov.
21st „
11 ,,
Sookhary.
Nil
Sittapore
Service
Ditto ditto
10th „
15th ,,
5 ,,
Dinu Shaik
Gurwan
Alum Bazar
Ditto
Ditto ditto
13th „
19th ,,
6 „
Sudderuddy
Manjee
Howrah
Ditto
Ditto ditto
15th „
21st „
6 „
Ally Bux
Coolie
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto ditto
19th ,,
21st „
4 ,,
Issur
Shopkeeper
Ditto
Ditto
Had no treatment from
the beginning.
21st „
27th ,,
6 „
Mohendro
Coolie
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto ditto
22nd ,,
25th ,,
3 ,,
Ally Bux
Manjee
Dacca
Ditto
Ditto ditto
22nd ,,
24th ,,
2 ,,
Kany
Coolie
Jehanabad
Ditto
Ditto ditto
23rd ,,
23rd ,,
24 hours
Name unknown
Nil
Nil
Ditto
Ditto ditto
23rd ,,
24th ,,
24 ,,
Jukhoory
Coolie
Howrah
Service
Ditto ditto
26th ,,
27th ,,
24 ,,
Gunesh
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto ditto
26th ,,
8th Dec ,,
12 days,
Tijan
Fitter
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto ditto
28th ,,
4th ,,
5 , ,
Gunesh
Nil
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto ditto
30th ,,
7th ,,
7 ,,
Sakram
Coolie
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto ditto
28th ,,
4t h ,,
5 ,,
Gunoo
Nil
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto ditto
26th ,,
1st ,,
4 ,,
Russick
Ditto
Sulkea
Ditto
Ditto ditto
23rd ,,
1st ,,
7 ,,
Toolsy
Coolie
Chupra
Ditto
Had none to look after
him.
4th Dec.
9th „
5 ,,
Mooty
Prostitute
Howrah
Resident
Ditto ditto
13th „
12th „
24 hours.
Bokhorry
Coolie
Ghazepore
Service ... Ditto ditto
10th ,,
15th ,,
5 days.
Hurry
Ditto
Bhagul pore
Ditto
Ditto ditto
10th ,,
15th ,,
5 ,,
Khaina
Prostitute
Howrah
Resident
Ditto ditto
12th ,,
18th „
4 ,,
Mookto
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto ditto
23rd ,,
24th ,,
24 hours.
Sreemutty
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto ditto
17th ,,
25th ,,
6 days.
Name unknown
Nil
Bali
Ditto
Ditto ditto
23rd ,,
23rd ,,
24 hours.
Noor Mohamed
Coolie
Mooradabad
Servi ce. Ditto ditto
22nd ,,
24th ,,
2 days.
Dina
Nil
Oude
Ditto
Ditto ditto
23rd ,,
26th ,,
3 ,,
Runjit
Coolie
Allahabad
Ditto
Ditto ditto
13th ,,
25th ,,
12 ,,
Mally
Nil
Kistnaghur
Ditto
Ditto ditto
24th „
25th „
21 hours.
Kalika
Ditto
Patna
To be em-
ployed
Ditto ditto
24th „
25th „
21 „
Mutty
Ditto
Calcutta
Ditto
Ditto ditto
25th „
26th „
21 ,,
Name unknown
Ditto
............
Ditto
Ditto ditto
25th „
26th „
24 „
Dassi
............
Jehanabad
Ditto
Ditto ditto
27th „
28th „
24 ,,
Pultoo
Coolie
Chupra
Ditto
Ditto ditto
23rd ,,
28th ,,
5 days.
Kally Churn
Ditto
Ghazeepore
Ditto Ditto ditto
26th ,,
28th ,,
2 ,,
Kelly
Washerman
Jehanabad
Ditto
Ditto ditto
25th ,,
28th ,,
3 ,,
Name unknown
Coolie
............
............
Ditto ditto
25th ,,
28th ,,
3 ,,
Rajub
Nil
............
............
Ditto ditto
28th ,,
28th ,,
6 hours.
Gandhary
Coolie
Howrah
............
Ditto ditto
29th ,,
29th „
2 days.
Health of district.
District. —In the beginning of last year two native doctors were engaged in treating
endemic fever in this district ; one of these was stationed at Juggutbullubpore, the other at
Baloor. The excessive sickness which rendered their services necessary disappeared in March,
and the native doctors were withdrawn in. the same month.
Fever.
As endemic fever began to prevail at Shibpore, and at and around a village named
Belgatchia, at the close of the the services of two native doctors were again applied for
and obtained. The fever during November and the first half of December raged with great
severity. At the end of December, however, it had greatly declined, and the number of new
cases scarcely exceeded that of normal times. A great number of the villagers, however, are
now suffering from the sequelæ of fever, and it will be necessary to retain. the native docto
r s
at their present posts for some time longer.
Its type.
The fever is the ordinary endemic fever of the country, and in most instances is of an
intermittent type. It has been mainly characterized by rapid enlargement of the spleen
o r
liver, or of both, and by the rapidity with which in some instances it has proved fatal. People
have not unfrequently died of it in 36 hours. In these cases the patients scarcely ever rallied
from the state of collapse, and their skin remained cold throughout. A few cases
w e r e
rendered remarkable by profuse exudation of blood from the lining membrane of the
s t o m a c h
and bowels. It is noteworthy that cholera has scarcely been met with lately in those fever-
stricken villages ; indeed at Shibpore there was not one case in November or in December.
Mortality.
The deaths from fever for the year for the whole district, as given in the
m o r t u a r y
returns, amounted to 3,718. This is a death-rate of 6·2 per mille in the population, and it
constitutes 61 per cent. of the general mortality.