MUNICIPAL DEPARTMENT.
MEDICAL—No. 105T—M.
DARJEELING, THE 6TH JUNE 1891.
RESOLUTION.
R E A D —
The Report on the Calcutta Medical Institutions for 1890.
The year 1890 appears to have been an unhealthy one for the town of
Calcutta, the death-rate having risen from 26.9 per mille of the population in
1889 to 28.5. The mortality from fever was above the average, and the
outbreak of small-pox noticed last year continued with increased severity
into the beginning of the year under review. The mortality from cholera,
on the other hand, in Calcutta and Howrah was the lowest known during the
last ten years, being 1,327 in the combined area (excluding the recently
amalgamated Suburbs), against 1,567 in 1889. In Howrah the death-rate, fell
from 22.71 in 1889 to 20.62, whereas in the Suburbs it rose from 46.9 to 47.5.
2. The following statement shows the number of in-door and out-door
patients treated in the several hospitals, including the Bhowanipore Dispensary,
the statistics of which are for the first time shown in the report, the
institution having been included within the limits of the Calcutta Municipality
only during the last two years:—
Name of Institution.
1890.
1889.
TOTAL TREATED.
Died per
cent. of
d a i l y a v e r -
age of in-
door pati-
ents.
TOTAL TREATED.
Died per
cent. of
daily aver-
age of in-
door pati-
ents.
In-door.
Daily
average
in-door,
Out-
door. Total.
In-door.
Daily
average
in-door.
Out-
door. Total.
Medical College Hospital . . .
...
6,741
354.16
52,108 58,849
160.6*
6,665
342.82
50,182 56,847
158.7*
Presidency General Hospital
...
3,105
151.23
.....
3,105
74.
3,190
168.80
......
3,190
75.2
Mayo Institutions
...
...
...
2,140
94.8
134,849 136,989
252.1
2,278
99.35
137,419 139,697
290 9
Campbell Hospital ...
...
...
8,415
451.64
......
8,415
378.2
8,252
445.30
......
8,252
377.9
Police Hospital
. . . . . . . . . 2,593
95.48
. . . . . .
2,593
22.
2,432
101.91
......
2,432
19.6
Bhowanipore Dispensary ...
...
......
......
10,694 10,694
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . . . . 10.627 10,627 ......
Total Calcutta Hospitals
... 22,994
1147.31 197,651 220,645
230.9* 22,817
1158.18
198,228 221,045
229.9*
Howrah General Hospital ...
...
1,368 not stated 10,422 11,790 not stated.
1,513 not stated
9,609 11,122 not stated.
GRAND TOTAL
... 24,362
......
208,073 232,435
......
24,330
. . . . . . 207,837 232,167 . . . . . .
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* Reckoned on cases treated, exclusive of cases treated in the Ophthalmic Ward of the Medical College Hospital.
The statistical information furnished in this table, which has been ampli-
fied by adding particulars taken from the body of the report and by exhibiting
the death-rate in the form of a percentage on the daily average number of
in-door patients is not so full as might be desired. In order to show how far
the hospitals fulfil the purposes for which they are maintained, figures should
be given in future years, stating the daily average number of in-door and
out-door patients, and the number of beds available for the accommodation
of the former class. It is further not clear why no separate statistics are
given for the Calcutta dispensaries included under the head of Mayo Insti-
tutions. Three of these—the Chitpore, Park Street, and Sukea's Street
dispensaries—receive only out-door patients, and their statistics are apparently
included in the total of 134,849 entered in the statement above. But in
paragraphs 70 to 74 of the report, which purport to give the detailed statistics
for these dispensaries, the number of out-door patients attending the Chitpore
dispensary is not shown, though it is said to have been less by 740 than
in 1889.
There was an increase in both classes of patients in all the hospitals with
the exception of the Mayo Institutions and the Presidency General Hospital.
The differences are not sufficient to require any explanations.
3. The death-rate among all the patients treated at the hospitals, excluding
cholera patients, was 114 per mille against 112 in 1889, or if deaths from