CALCUTTA MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.
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At the Mayo Hospital there were 135 major operations, the same number
as last year. The deaths from operations were 20 ; about 15 per cent. There
were five cancers of the breast removed, with one death ; 16 extractions of
cataract, with 13 successful. ; 12 amputations of the extremities, with eight
recoveries and four deaths ; one cancer of the tongue successful ; nine operations
for diseased bone with one death. There was a large number of fractures
treated. The minor operations were 3,657.
At the Chandney Hospital there were 23 major operations-viz. 12 cancers
removed, five jaw dislocations reduced, one compound fracture of thumb ampu-
tated, three shoulder, one elbow, and one wrist dislocation reduced. Of minor
operations there were 2,643.
The total number of patients at the Chitpore Dispensary was 24,799, giving
a daily average attendance of 174. The principal diseases from which relief was
sought seem to have been : fevers, 6,245 ; rheumatic affections, 1,599 ; respira-
tory affections, 1,080 ; abscess, boils, &c., 1,431 ; skin diseases,1,860 ; dysentery,
561; diarrhoea, 589 ; injuries, 1,587. Of major operations there were 27 ; of
minor 2,177.
At Park Street Dispensary 33,851 patients were treated, about 1,000 more
than last year. The average daily attendance was 246 . 6. The following seem to
have been the most prevalent diseases from which patients suffered : fevers,
3,068 ; respiratory affections, 2,708 ; dysentery, 1,056 ; diarrhoea, 2,814 ;
worms, 3,054 ; spleen diseases, 1,017; skin diseases, 1,787 ; injuries, 1,163.
There were 11 major and 2,285 minor operations.
The applicants for relief at Sukea Street Dispensary numbered in all 16,309,
about the same as in the previous year. The daily average attendance amounted
to 136 .26. Here the large number of patients appear to have been suffering from
fever, 4,006 ; dysentery, 500 ; diarrhoea, 630 ; spleen diseases, 2,854 ; syphilitic
affections, 515 ; abscess and skin diseases, 1,668 ; injuries, 573. There were
but two major operations and 2,177 minor.
At these dispensaries no in-patients are admitted. The total number of
out-patients at the dispensaries was 189,724, giving a daily average attendance
of 1,494.
R s .
A. P.
There was a balance in hand on 31st December 1876
...
...
3,492 4 4
The receipts for the year have been from Government for medicines
...
6,000 0 0
Government special allowances
...
...
...
...
30,366 6 0
Interest on invested capital
...
.
. . .
...
17,420 9 10
...
Subscriptions from Europeans
...
....
...
2,946 0 0
Ditto
Natives
...
...
...
„.
2,265 0 0
Total
...
62,490 4 2
The expenditure has been-
Rs. A. P.
On establishment
...
...
...
...
... 34,678 2 3
.
„ Bazar
medicines
...
...
...
... .
...
2,525 9 71/2
„ European
„... ...
...
...
6,217 7 41/2
„ Diet...
...
...
...
4,713 3 6
„ Miscellaneous charges ...
...
...
...
6,508 6 5
„ Building and repairs ...
...
...
...
...
7,466 4 6
Total
... 62,109 1 8
Balance in hand on 31st December 1877
...
381 2 6
The cost per patient per annum has been
for—
Rs. A. P.
Establishment
...
...
...
...
...
23 3 0
Bazar
medicines
...
‘,..
...
1 11 0
...
. . .
European
. . .
,,
...
...
...
...
4 2 0
Diet
. . .
...
...
...
48 0 0
Miscellaneous
. . .
...
...
4 6 0
...
. . .
Building and repairs
"'
...
...
5 0 0
"'
The average cost of diet per patient per diem has been two annas three
pies . It would have been less, but that rice and other grains have been much
more expensive this year than last on account of the Madras famine.
Surgical
operations.
Chitpore
Dispensary.
Park Street
Dispensary.
Sukea Street
Dispensary.
Total attendance
in all
dispensaries.
Income and
expenditure.