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REPORT ON THE
Some statistics of
sickness and
mortality of
European and
Native patients. 19. The following table, which has been compiled from Statement No. VI, shows
clearly the number of Christian and Native patients who were treated for some of the more
important diseases, as well as the rate of mortality of the two races from them. These
statistics are interesting, as exhibiting how much more fatal these diseases (tetanus excepted)
have been amongst the native patients, a result most probably due to the smaller resistance
that this class of patients is able to make against attacks of sickness, in consequence of ,their
inferior physique.
DISEASES.
Christians treated. Natives
treated. Total.
DIED.
Died per cent. of treated.
Christians. Natives. Christians. Natives.
Fevers
1, 062
3, 668
4, 730
32
319
3.01
8 . 6 9
Anæmia, spleen, dropsy,
and debility
180
1, 856
2, 036
18
543
10
2 9 . 2 5
Injuries
384
1, 189
1, 573
6
104
1. 56
8 . 7 4
Dysentery
327
1, 161
1, 488
18
418
5.5
36
Diarrhœa
359
992
1, 351
14
303
3.89
3 0 . 5 4
Cholera
154
586
740
76
323
49.35 5 5 . 1 1
Bronchitis
221
253
474
6
41
2.71
1 6 . 2 0
Phthisis
167
272
439
31
130
18.56 4 7 . 7 8
Liver diseases
137
118
255
10
20
7.29 1 6 . 9 4
Pneumonia
34
187
221
4
49
11.76 2 6 . 2 0
Tetanus
15
89
104
11
53
73.33 5 9 . 5 5
Proportion of
Christian and native in-door patients, withthe death-rate of each.
20. Of the 21,832 in-door patients (exclusive of those in the Eye Infirmary), it appears
that 6,436 were Christians and 15,396 were natives. Of this number (Christians 345, natives
. 2, 881) 3, 226 di ed, or at t he r at e of ( Chr i st i ans 53. 60, nat i ves 187 .1
2 ) 1 4 7
.7
6 p e r m i l l e o f t o t a l
treated.
Fevers, anæmia, &c., and bowel-complaints were accountable for 54 per cent. of the total .
number treated, and for 67 per cent. of the total mortality of the native patients; and such
results, considering the general condition of this class on admission into hospital, are not
surprising. From the figures given in the table immediately preceding, a number of other
interesting statistical results of sickness and mortality might be calculated, but to do so would,
I fear, extend this report beyond its proper dimensions.
M o r i b u n d c a s e s . 2 1 . I n t h e f o l l o w i n g t a b l e i s s h o w n t h e n u m b e r o f " m o r i b u n d " p a t i e n t s r e c e i v e d i n t o
the Calcutta medical institutions during 1876. The influence exerted by these moribund cases
on the death-rates of the several hospitals is also calculated, and will be found well marked.
Ca mpbe l l Hos pi t a l . M e d i c a l C o l l e g e
Hospital.
H o w r a h
Hospital. General
Hospital.
North S u b u r b a n
Hospital.
Mayo H o s p i t a l . Alipore
Dispensary TOTAL.
Moribund cases
225
139
68
35
32
31
9
539
Death-rate per mille o f
t o t a l
treated
Death-rate after deducling the
moribund cases
250.45
224.16
136. 19
103. 56
150.0
124.55
55. 01
46. 67
231. 49
190. 91
127. 15
113. 61
136. 36
59. 40
147. 76
126. 19
Influence which
the moribund cases exerted on the death-rate.
22. Excluding the Campbell Hospital, which is the institution recognized for the recep-
tion of moribunds, it will be gathered from the foregoing table to -what extent the death-rates
of the Alipore Dispensary and of the Medical College, North Suburban, Mayo, Howrah, and
General Hospitals were influenced by the admission of these cases, viz. from 8 .34 per mille in
the General Hospital to 76.96 per mille in the Alipore Dispensary. Had the moribund
cases been excluded altogether from the Calcutta medical institutions, the death-rate of the
total number of in-door patients treated would have been reduced from 147.76 to 126.19
per mille.
Omission of certain
tables which are
now supplied in
the report of the
Health Officer.
23. As the Health Officer to the Municipality has published a very full report of the
sickness and mortality registered throughout the city and suburbs of Calcutta during the
past year, and of other points of interest in connection with the public health, I have omitted
from this report certain tables, which (compiled in the Municipal office) used to be embodied
in it. Dr. Payne's report is in a very convenient form, and affords full information regard-
ing the health of the Calcutta population, as also of the causes of sickness, and of those
seasons in which the greatest amount of sickness and the highest mortality prevailed. For
this reason I shall abstain from making any useless repetition, and for further informatio
n regarding the headings just mentioned would refer to Dr. Payne's report.
Localities from
whence cholera
eases Wer0
admitted.
24. The localities from whence cholera cases were admitted are shown in statement
No. VII, but in it the residences of 89 out of the 734 patients have not been specified.
This statement calls for little remark, beyond that certain localities which in former years