CALCUTTA, THE 11TH JULY 1876.
RESOLUTION.
READ
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Letter from the Surgeon-General, Indian Medical Department, No. 259, dated the 22nd
May 1876, submitting his report on the Medical Institutions of Calcutta and its
Suburbs for the year 1875.
Read again
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The report for the year 1874, with the orders of Government passed thereon.
THE report for the past year affords satisfactory evidence of the increas
-ing popularity and usefulness of the medical institutions of Calcutta and
its suburbs. The public health during the year was not affected in any serious
degree by epidemic disease, nor by an unusual amount of sickness ; yet the
number of persons who resorted for medical treatment to the hospitals and
dispensaries increased by nearly 20 per cent., or from 263,027 in 1874 to 313,462
during the past pear. Thus the increase which was noticed in the report for the
previous year has been more than sustained. The following table exhibits the
number of persons who were treated at the different institutions as in-door and
out-door patients during the last three years :—
1875.
1874.
1873.
PERSONS TREATED.
PERSONS TREATED.
PERSONS TREATED.
In-door. Out-door. Total. In-door. Out-door. Total. In-door. Out-door. Total.
1. Medical College Hospital
4,456 45,374 49,830
4, 349
45,199
49,548
4,748 43,691 48, 439
2. General Hospital
3,234
9,544 12,778
2,826
1,107
3,933
2,894
2, 894
3. Mayo Hospital and Dispensary
2,006 191,759 193,765
1, 004 155,611 156,615
1,602 141,352 142,954
4. Campbell Hospital
7,782
7,782
7,558
7,558
5,271
5,271
5. Municipal Police Hospital
2,880
2,880
2,341
2,341
1,985
1,985
6. North Suburban Hospital
625
625
711
711
682
682
7. Sumbhoo Nath Pundit Dispensary
9,907
9 , 9 0 7
9 , 6 0 8
9,608
1 0 6
7,818
7 , 9 2 4
8. Alipore Dispensary
1 1 9
5,968
6,087
130
6,092
6,222
115
7,052 7,167
9. Aratoon A pear Dispensary
9,539
9,539
8, 858
8,858
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9,384 9, 384
10. Howrah General Hospital
2,245 18,024 20,269
2,002 15,631 17,633 1,493 13,364 14,857
Total
2 3 , 3 4 7
290,115 313,462 20,921 242,106 263,027 18,896 222,661 241,557
2. Of the 50,435 patients who received medical and surgical advice and
treatment in excess of the total number of the previous year, 2,426 were
in-door, and 48,009 out-door patients. The increase is chiefly observable in the
number treated in. the General Hospital, the Mayo Hospital, and the Howrah
Hospital. There has been a slight falling off in the numbers attending the
North Suburban Hospital and the Alipore dispensary, while the attendance at
the Medical College Hospital has varied but little during the past three
years. Complete statistics regarding the race, sex, and age of the patients
have not been furnished, as particulars were not recorded as regards 9,544
out-door patients treated at the Presidency General Hospital. But of 303,918
patients, 181,352 were males, 48,111 were females, and 74,455 were children
under ten years of age. The proportion per cent of each race to the total
treated was 49.93 Hindoos, 33.20 Mahomedans, 11.80 Eurasians, and 2.41
Europeans. As compared with the percentages of the previous year, the
increase which is observable in the number of Hindoo patients is almost
exactly equal to the decrease in the number of the remaining classes.
3. The returns of the hospitals and of the municipality alike show that
the last half of the year was much more unhealthy than the first. The