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REPORT ON THE
36. In the front of the return it will be observed that 48 Europeans are set
down as having been admitted under treatment. On requesting to be furnished
with the particulars of these cases, Dr. Mackenzie supplied the following
information:—
Pure Europeans admitted ...
...
... ... None.
Undoubted Eurasians
...
...
... ...
43
Doubtful cases...
. . .
. . .
5
Total
...
48
" What's in a name?" Well, in my opinion, a very great deal sometimes
when the name is used correctly; but real mischievous when employed as
here, where the term "European" covers a multitude of the sins of others,
and might, if passed unquestioned, lead to false inferences.
37. The diseases noted below are non-contagious, and should not have
been admitted into the lock-hospitals, viz :
—
Indurated bubo.
Syphilitic sore (not specified and therefore not understood).
Syphilitic keratitis.
Syphilitic necrosis.
Labial ulcer (character not specified).
Syphilitic pereostitis.
Simple ulcer.
Syphilitic onychia.
Hereditary syphilis.
38. As regards those venereal diseases admissible into a lock-hospital, I
think the following allowable:—
Hard and soft chancre.
Phagedenic and sloughing syphilitic sores.
Gonorrhœa.
Condylomata, and the severer forms of syphilitic skin diseases.
Sub-acute and chronic forms of the latter, with syphilitic lesions of the
bones, joints, nervous system, abdominal viscera, &c., are all much more
suitably, and I should say efficiently, treated in General Hospitals.
STATEMENT No. VII.
Campbell
Hospital.
Medica
l Colleg
e H o s p i t a l .
Howrah
General
Hospital.
Mayo
Hospital.
Police
Hospital.
Total.
True native deaths, excluding cholera ...
...
...
...
1,479
317
254
206
27
2,283
Moribund persons, excluding cholera ...
...
...
...
271
103
33
47
2
456
Difference
...
1,208
214
221
159
25
1,827
True death-rate per mille, excluding cholera and moribunds
169.4
73.9
289.6
67.2
101
118.07
39. The figures in this table show the true death-rate among native patients
in the several institutions. Excluding cholera and moribunds, the true death-rate
has been reduced everywhere, except at the Howrah and Police Hospitals.
There were 456 moribunds admitted in 1885 against 497 in 1884. At the
Campbell Hospital the true death-rate was 169.4 against 189.9; at the Medical
College 73.9 against 96.06; at Howrah 289.6 against 281.1; at the Mayo 67.2
against 88.24; at the Police Hospital the rate was 10.7 against 8.1 in 1884.
40. The disturbing factors in comparing these death-rates are that, in the
Campbell and Howrah Hospitals many helpless cases are admitted which, on
terminating fatally, raise the death-rate inordinately. In the case of moribunds
the diseases which led to the mortality are not always particularized.
41. Operative Surgery .—The results of the operations performed during the
year are detailed in figures in a table given in the Appendix.
Three hundred and ninety-four cases of major operations were treated in
the Medical College Hospital in 1885. Of this number, 30 died. In 1884 the
figures stood 416 and 52 respectively. Ophthalmic operations are not included in
these figures. Diphtheria is absent from the records this year. Four thousand
and fifty minor operations were performed during 1885 against 4,505 in 1884.