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attacked with cholera had died in 1877 and 1878 at rates of 80.6 and 74.9
per cent. The death-rate in the Campbell Hospital in 1879 was 64.7 per
cent. The death-rate from all disease was 260 per 1,000, against 253 in
1878. The difference between these two years is made up by the cholera
mortality. If cases received from the depôt be excluded, the rate falls to 252
per 1,000. The difference on the former years is due to the additional
prevalence of small-pox in 1879. Excluding cholera, small-pox, and moribund
persons, the general death-rate in 1879 was 199 per 1,000.
86. Improvements.—A new tiled shed was erected during the year for
the servants of the hospital. The hospital building and the Deputy Superin
- t e n d e n t ' s q u a r t e r s w e r e r e p a i r e d . T h e l e v e l l i n g o f t h e c o m p o u n d m a d e p r o g r e s s ,
and a dirty tank was filled up. Lighting of the wards was apparently improved
and expenditure thereon reduced. This is subject to further report. A scheme
was taken in hand for converting into a medicine store and dispensary the
building received by the Committee of the proposed asylum for blind and
incurable persons. Government sanction was accorded to this very necessary
provision, which will probably be soon carried out, and may, I hope, render it
possible to undertake the training of compounders for the public service,—a class
much needed throughout the province.
POLICE HOSPITAL.
87. Dr. S. C. Mackenzie was in charge of this hospital during nine
months. Dr. Nicholson officiated during the other three.
88. There were fewer admissions than in 1878 or 1877 by 622 and
148 respectively. The state of public health in the two last years had its
effect. The strength of the force also underwent reduction. Ague and its
consequences and dysentery were the prevailing diseases. A considerable
number of constables were under treatment for debility, which the Police
Surgeon ascribes to parsimony in diet at their homes. There was also a
good deal of venereal disease in the force.
89. The deaths were 36 in number, against 31 in 1878 and 63 in 1877.
The general death-rates of this hospital are of little statistical value, as it is
supposed to receive all policemen who are too unwell to work, or think
they are so, and many therefore who would not be received into a general
hospital.
90. Improvements.—The hospital buildings were repaired, and the
drainage of the compound effected in 1879.
MAYO HOSPITAL.
91. Surgeon-Major Cayley was in charge of the Mayo Hospital through--
out the year.
92. In-patients were treated to the number of 1,763 with a daily
average of 85. These numbers are slightly below those of 1878, when the
hospital was often overcrowded. The deaths were 260 in number, or 14 per
cent. of the total treated. From cholera there were 78 deaths in 167 cases;
from fevers 17 deaths; from bowel diseases 24; from tetanus 23; from
injuries 32, and 36 cases were moribund on admission. Fevers were less
prevalent and less severe than in the preceding years.
93. The total number of out-patients treated was 48,271 with a daily
average of 370, against 52,571 and 416 respectively in 1878. The improved
public health of the year would explain this. Possibly the absence of
Dr. Cayley's well-known and popular assistant, Mr. Hinder, for five consecutive
months had also its effect on numbers.
94. At the Chandney Hospital 282 in-door patients were treated with a
daily average of 8.3 and a total death-rate of 88 per 1,000. There were
57,863 out-patients with a daily average of 524. This was less in total by
nearly 4,000 than the number of 1878.
95. At the Chitpore Dispensary the total number was 22,718 and the
daily attendance 175, against 26,073 and 193 respectively in 1878, all out
- p a t i e n t s .