26 REPORT ON THE
CHANDNEY HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY.
THE expenditure is shown in the accompanying annual statement: the average cost
of each diet, including stimulants, was annas 2-4.2.
The buildings are in fairly good repair.
Patients, in-door.—The total treated was 254, or 52 less than in 1877, and the daily
average 6.38, against 7.5. There were 42 deaths, or 16.5 per cent. Of these deaths 19 were
from cholera, five moribund (exclusive of cholera ), eight from fever, and eight from injuries.
The chief diseases treated were fever, cholera, bowel-complaints, and injuries. The
in-patient department is chiefly kept up for urgent cases, and other cases requiring admission
into hospital are generally sent to the Mayo or other hospitals. Thirty-two cases of cholera
and 19 deaths are shown.
Out-patients .—The numbers treated have been very large: 61,723 patients in all, and
a daily average of 514.7; in 1877 these numbers were 58,831 and 442, the increase being
chiefly for fever, diarrhœa, and spleen. At this hospital a considerable number of Europeans
and Eurasians attend as out-patients, and there are far more Mussulmans than Hindus.
CHITPORE DISPENSARY.
THE total of patients at the Chitpore Dispensary was 26,073, and the daily average 193.
These numbers are higher than in the previous year. Here fever, bowel-complaints, spleen,
skin diseases, eye and ear affections, and abscesses are the most prevalent diseases.
PARK STREET DISPENSARY (COLINGAH STREET).
THE attendance has been less than the previous year. The total attendance has been
30,911, and the daily average 254.5. Fever, rheumatism, diarrhœa, lung affections, worms,
and skin affections have formed the chief diseases.
The house used as a dispensary, No. 59, South Colingah Street was vacated in
August, and a temporary house taken close by. The former house has been thoroughly
repaired, and has been taken again on a new lease.
SUKEA'S STREET DISPENSARY.
THE total attendance was 17,359, and the daily average 150.6. These numbers are
higher than in 1877 by 1,050 and 14 respectively. The most prevalent affections have
been fever, spleen, bowel-complaints, syphilis, and rheumatism.
In the Mayo and Chandney Hospital and dispensaries the total of in-patients was 2,127,
and the daily average strength 103.1; out-door 188,637, and daily average 1,530, giving an
aggregate of 190,711 and 1,633 respectively. The total expenditure (excluding the part
cost of building new room) amounted to Rs. 55,028-13-5, or annas 4-7.9 per head for each
patient.
The Mayo Hospital and branch dispensaries have in my opinion all worked satisfactorily
during the year, and the officers in charge have performed their duties carefully and
efficiently.
HOWRAH GENERAL HOSPITAL.
SURGEON-MAJOR J. G. FILCHER, F.R.C.S., was Superintendent of the Howrah General
Hospital during the year. From his annual report the following extracts are taken
The management and working of this institution during 1878 has, on the whole, been
fairly satisfactory. The hospital maintains its position of usefulness, and its income has
been equal to the strain made upon it.
The number of in-door European patients is about the average of former years, and the
attendance of European and East Indian out-patients at the dispensary was quite equal to
that of the past year, though the figures of this report, taken from the register, do not
support the latter statement.
In both the extern and intern departments of the native side there has been increase.
The accommodation in the hospital for both Europeans and natives is less than is
required, and it is impossible to avoid overcrowding, especially on the native side.
The accommodation for six months of the year is ample, but for the rest of the period the
area per bed was much less than it should have been.
The daily average number of sick during the four years ending 1878 is shown below:—
YEARS.
AVERAGE DAILY SICK.
Europeans and Eurasians.
Natives.
In-door.
Out-door.
In-door.
Out-door.
1875
47.33
1 9 . 5 6
44.95
154.52
1876
47.61
20.11
55.69
127.36
1877
45.43
21.73
54.49
173.54
1878
38.85
13.52
56.07
203.55