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REPORT ON THE
Principal statistic:
of the year.
MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL.
THE following is a summary of the very comprehensive and interesting annual report
submitted by Dr. Chevers on the working of the Medical College Hospital during the year
1875.
1. The accompanying table exhibits in a very simple form most of the principal statis-
tical events of the hospital during the past year, and it will assist in illustrating various
portions of the report, which, in the absence of other and more elaborate figured statements,
would be rather confusing :—
Total treated.
Total deaths.
EXCLUSIVE OF PATIENTS IN EYE INFIRMARY.
DISCHARGED.
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Men
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46
536
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433
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36
29
(-Europeans ... Women
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4
141
145
111
15
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9
Children ...
3
38
41
33
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CHRISTIANS . . . 1
Men
20
310
330
232
49
7
17
25
(Eurasians
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28
410
438
332
48
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22
26
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132
137
101
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Total of Christian Patients ... 106 1,567 1,673 1,245
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Men
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26
311
340
231
23
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61
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4
74
78
48
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19
1
Children ...
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26
27
19
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3
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Men
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78
855
933
480
96
25
255
77
NATIVES ...• HilldOOS .., Women
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26
417
473
295
31
13
103
31
Children ...
7
100
107
63
12
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23
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98
101
58
10
2
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20
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1
139
140
113
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11
3
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Total of Natives ... 155 2,087 2,242 1,337
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499
149
Grand Total ... 261 • 3,651 3,915 2,582
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102
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EYE INFIRMARY
INPATIENTS.
Remained. Admitted.
Total.
DISCHARGED.
Died. Remaining.
Cured. i Relieved. Otherwise.
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2_ The total number of in-door patients treated, exclusive of the inmates of the Eye
Infirmary, was 3,915, and this number is in excess of the
total treated in 1874 by 156.
3. There were 598 deaths, or at the rate of 152.74
per mile of total treated, and this mortality was higher than
Total indoor sick ... ... 4,456
„ out-door „ ... ... 45,371
Daily average sick in-door ... 309'02
1,
32 out-door ... 415'61
Moribund cases
influenced the
death rate.
that of any of the five preceding years. An explanation for tins increased mortality is otterea
in paragraph 6.
4. Of the 598 deaths, 109 took place within 24 hours after admission. Excluding
these moribund cases, the mortality was at the rate of 128 .48 per mine of total treated, and
this is higher than the rate of the two preceding years, in which also the moribund cases
were deducted.