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REPORT ON THE
Proportion of the
sexes to the total
number of each
race treated.
Census return.
Proportion
according to race
and sex of those
treated in the
Calcutta and
Mofussil hospitals.
10.In Statement No. III is shown the proportion of males, females, and children to
the total number of each race treated.
Statement No. III. From this it appears that, as corn.
pared with 1875 there was a decrease
in the proportion of European males
and females treated in the Calcutta
hospitals, while that of European
children had increased by 3 .4 per cent.
The proportion of the sexes of the
other races shows but little variation
from the figures given in last year's
report, and calls for no special corn.
ment from me. The most noticeable
feature in Statement No. III is the
small proportion, as shown in the census return, which the females bear to the males amongst
the Mahomedans, " other castes," and Hindoos, leading to the conclusion that somehow
a considerable portion of the population of Calcutta represented by these castes escaped
inclusion in the census returns, from being either an unsettled lot or non-resident at night.
No comparative deductions can be made from this census return, as in it the children are
included with the males and females, whereas in the hospital returns they are shown separately,
11.The proportion which the several races and the sexes of each race contributed to
the in and out-door departments of the Calcutta and mofussil hospitals is shown in State.
ment No. IV.
RACE.
HOSPITALS.
CENSUS RETURN.
Europeans
Males. Females. Children. Males. Females.
69. 88 15. 4 14.72
Eurasians
32. 36 22.68 44.96 57.19 42. 8
Mahomedans
58. 53 13.88 27.59 71. 65 28.34
Hindoos
69. 47 14.88 15.65 63 82 36.17
Other Castes
31. 03 26.14 42.83 70. 39 29.16
Statement No. IV.
IN-DOOR PATIENTS.
Europeans.
Eurasians.
Mahomedans.
Hi n d o o s .
Other castes.
M. F. C. M. F. C. M. F. C. M. F. C. M. F. C.
1 6 . 4 7
1 0 . 9 6
1 8 . 0 9
51.42
3 . 0 5
Calcutta
85.91 9.55 4.53 49.73 34.15 16.11 81.61 15.49 2.89 76.39 20.79 2' 81 61.93 28.99 9 . 0 8
' 29
. 4 4
27.8 6 9 . 7 3
1 . 7 3
Mofussil, 1875 98. 44. 1.56
77.55 16.33 6.12 78.21 18.64 3.74 77.37 18.8 3.82 61.91 28.87 9 . 1 8
OUT-DOOR PATIENTS.
1 . 9 1
1 1 . 0 1
3 4 . 3
49.13
3 . 6 4
Calcutta
59.13 19.32 21.54 31.01 21.79 47.19 57.58 13.81 28.61 68.9 14.4 16.69 29.01 25 . 95 45. 03
.14
.43
3 3 . 4 9
64.56
1 . 3 8
Mofussil, 1875 62. 22 15.31 22.46 48.06 23. 64. 28.3 63.43 18.85 17.71 64. ' 32 18.39 17.28 49.73 27.13 23. 13
Statistics of the
patients treated in
hospital for the
past nine years.
It will be noticed that in the Calcutta hospitals the proportion of European, Eurasian
and " other caste" in-door patients was much greater than in the mofussil ; but this result
might naturally be expected. In the mofussil hospitals the Mahomedan and Hindoo patients
were in excess, the latter more particularly so. Amongst the out-door patients it will be
observed that a larger proportion of Christians, Mahomedans, and " other caste " was treated
at the Calcutta than at the mofussil hospitals, but in the latter the Hindoos were considerably
12. From Statement No. V it will be gathered that, firstly (excluding 534 patients
in the Eye Infirmary), the total number of in-door patients treated in the Calcutta medical
institutions during .1876 was 21,832. Of this number 3,226 died, or at the rate of
14716 per mille of total treated; but the mortality in the Calcutta hospitals was at the
rate of 172.08 per mille, and in the Suburban hospitals 166.28 per mille of total treated;
Secondly, that 740 cholera cases were treated, of which 399 proved fatal, or at the rate of
339.18 per mille ; and thirdly, that, excluding the cholera cases, the death-rate of the total
number of in-door patients treated was 134.03 per mille.