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REPORT ON THE
Out-door patients
(new cases).
highly disturbing influence on the death-rates of both hospitals; and excluding it from the
statistics, the mortality of the Mayo Hospital will fall from 133·41 per mille of total
treated to 103·34; that of the Chandney Hospital from 97·14 to 67·09; and the mortality of
both combined from 127·15 to 97·31.
Fevers, cholera, tetanus, pneumonia, and dysentery, have caused 59·30 per cent. of the
mortality of both hospitals.
7. The following table shows the number of out-door patients (new cases) treated at
the Mayo and Chandney Hospitals and at the associated dispensaries:—
1875.
OUT-DOOR PATIENTS.
Mayo
Hospital.
Chandney
Hospital.
Park Street
Dispensary.
Chitpore.
Dispensary.
Sukea's
Street
Dispensary.
Total.
Europeans
...
Mal es . . . . . .
1 1
2 4 9
3 1 5
2 5
......
6 0 0
Females ... ...
1
7 9
2 3 6
1 0
......
3 2 6
Chi l dren . . . . . .
2
1 0 9
4 6 8
8
......
5 8 7
Eurasians
...
Mal es . . . . . .
7 7
3 , 3 4 7
8 0 1
5 3
1 3
4 , 2 9 1
Females ... ...
5 3
3 , 1 4 0
4 8 6
5 1
1 0
3 , 7 4 0
Chi l dren ... ...
1 2 3
9 , 7 6 0
9 8 3
8 5
1 6
1 0 , 9 6 7
T o t a l . . .
2 6 7
1 6 , 6 8 4
3 , 2 8 9
2 3 2
3 9
2 0 , 5 1 1
M u s s u l m a n s . . .
Mal es . . . . . .
6 , 1 9 0
1 1 , 4 9 0
8 , 8 1 4
4 , 8 7 0
4 , 5 1 2
3 5 , 8 7 6
Females ... ...
4 3 1
2 , 9 3 7
2 , 3 3 2
4 4 6
9 2 4
7 , 0 7 0
Children ... ...
8 4 1
7 , 8 3 4
9 , 1 4 2
1 , 2 1 0
1 , 2 5 4
2 0 , 2 8 1
Hindoos ... ...
Mal es . . . . . .
3 7 , 1 4 8
9 , 1 3 5
3 , 7 2 3
1 1 , 5 5 6
6 , 6 5 4
6 8 , 2 1 6
Females ... ...
6 , 0 5 4
1 , 3 9 2
5 8 6
2 , 1 9 7
1 , 2 4 9
1 1 , 4 7 8
Chi l dren ... ...
6 , 0 2 5
3 , 3 9 5
1 , 9 6 0
3 , 0 2 2
1 , 6 5 8
1 6 , 0 6 0
O t h e r C a s t e s . . .
Mal es . . . . . .
2 4 6
6 8 0
6 1 8
......
2
1 , 5 4 6
Females ... ...
3 1
1 , 1 9 8
5 0 9
5 2
......
1 , 7 9 0
Children ... ...
7 1
1 , 9 0 9
1 , 6 6 4
1 0 4
......
3 , 7 4 8
T o t a l . . .
5 7 , 0 3 7
3 9 , 9 7 0
2 9 , 3 4 8
2 3 , 4 5 7
1 6 , 2 5 3
1 6 6 , 0 6 5
G R A N D T O T A L . . .
5 7 , 3 0 4
5 6 , 6 5 4
3 2 , 6 3 7
2 3 , 6 8 9
1 6 , 2 9 2
1 8 6 , 5 7 6
Analysis of
preceding table.
Operations.
8. As compared with 1875, there has been a decrease in the total number of new out
- d o o r c a s e s t r e a t e d i n t h e s e i n s t i t u t i o n s b y 4 , 2 1 1 . A t t h e M a y o H o s p i t a l t h e r e w e r e 2 , 0 7 9
out-door patients (fresh cases) in excess of those treated in 1875; but the returns of the
Chandney Hospital, and of the Park Street, Chitpore, and Sukea's Street dispensaries, show a
falling off in the number of patients by 277, 1,797, 3,561, and 655 respectively. No explana
-tion has been offered regarding this decrease in the number of out-door patients, which, in the
case of the Park Street and Chitpore dispensaries more particularly, has been very marked
indeed. During 1876 there has been a total of 188,517 in and out-door patients (new cases)
treated in the Mayo Hospital and associated dispensaries, against 192,710 in 1875; and there
was a daily average attendance of 1,486 out-door patients, to whom medical and surgical advice
was afforded. These results, though not quite so good as those shown in last year's report,
are nevertheless very satisfactory, and afford ample evidence (if any was wanting) of the
interest taken in the welfare and working of these popular institutions by the Superintendent
and by his subordinate medical officers.
9. During the past year, too, 135 major operations were performed, and 24 of them,
or at the rate of 17·77 per cent., terminated fatally. Amongst the major operations there
were 8 cases of lithotomy, of which 1 proved fatal, or at the rate of 12·5 per cent. All the
amputations (6) for disease (at the shoulder 1, of the arm 1, fore-arm 1, thigh 2, and leg 1)