CALCUTTA MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.
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A L I P O R E D I S P E N S A R Y .
This dispensary was established on the 1st October 1852, and Assistant Surgeon
Baboo Thunder Sekur Holder has been in continuous medical charge of it ever since.
Buildings.
1. The buildings are dispensary property, and are reported on as being in good repair.
Income.
2. The income of the dispensary is derived mainly from Government and from
private subscriptions, and has been sufficient to meet all necessary expenditure. The year
closed with a balance of Rs. 428 to credit of the dispensary.
IN-DOOR.
OUT-DOOR.
YEAR. Treated. Daily sick. Treated. Daily sick.
1873 ... 115
3.99
7,052
5 0 . 1 5
1 8 7 4 ... 130
3.5
6,092
4 8 . 6
Attendance.
3. The attendance, as compared with 1873,
shows a slight increase as regards in-patients,
but a marked decrease in the number of out-
patients.
Death-rate.
The death-rate is also higher compared with the previous year, being 27.4 against
23.4 per cent.
Operations.
There were five major and 259 minor surgical operations performed during the year, one of
the former, a case of amputation of the shoulder-joint, proved fatal.
Inspection.
The Deputy Surgeon-General visited the institution on 25th October 1874, and found
it well looked after in every department.
BHOWANIPORE DISPENSARY.
The dispensary was opened in 1840, and is placed in a hired building, which is in good
repair and affords good accommodation for out-patients.
Assistant Surgeon Ram Chunder Sen continues in charge.
Attendance.
2. As will be seen from the abstract given in the margin, the attendance, as compared
with 1873, has considerably increased. 771 surgical opera-
tions, of which a few were major ones, were performed
during the year.
Number Average daily
treated. attendance.
1873 ...
... 7,818
61.68
1874 ... ... 9,608
9 8 . 5 7
Finances.
3. The institution is supported by voluntary subscriptions, and Government provides
the medical officer's salary and cost of Europe medicines. The subscriptions during the
year amounted to Rs. 1,571, against Rs. 869 in 1873. There was a balance in hand at
the close of the year of Rs. 227, and out of the income of the year Rs. 1,539-8-6 were
invested.
Inspection.
4. The Deputy Surgeon-General of the Presidency circle inspected the institution on
the 29th October 1874. He remarks :—" It seems to be a question, all things considered,
whether the out-patients might not be transferred to the General Hospital, as the in-patients
have been. There is great need for a sweeper to be on the permanent establishment of the
dispensary. The building is ill-suited for a hospital. The accommodation is abundant
enough, there being room in which to place 25 beds, but the general design is bad. Repairs
are necessary, but the landlord, as he wishes to sell the estate, will not do anything." The
assistant surgeon is reported as evidently taking great interest in his work, as being also
intelligent and able, and having apparently acquired the confidence of the people.
HOWRAH GENERAL HOSPITAL.
Statistics.
There were treated in this hospital, during the year 1874, 6,880 Europeans and 10,834
natives, according to the following table :—
These numbers show a considerable increase in each class attending the hospital during
1874. The increase in the number of Europeans has
been very large owing to the considerable number of
patients which have been received from up-country railway
stations, where serious sickness prevailed.
In-door. Out-door. Total.
Europeans ...
803
6,012
8 , 8 8 0
Natives
...
1,134
9,700
10,834
Total ...
2,002
15,712
17,714
Sickness and
mortality—
Europeans.
2. The number of European in-door patients has been considerably higher than in any
off the four preceding years, and the death-rate per mile, 48.37, has been lower than that of
1870-71, but higher than that of 1872-73.
Sickness
and
mortality—natives. 3. The number of native in-door patients was very much higher in 1874 than in any of
the four preceding years, and the death-rate per mill, 251.32, was considerably higher than
that of 1870, 1871, 1872, but lower than that of 1873.