CALCUTTA MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.
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The daily number of out-door patients at the Medical College Hospital
in 1881 was 385. The reduction, coupled with similarity of numbers in the
totals of the years, indicates sickness of less severity among out-patients
in 1882, and to that extent corresponds with the evidence of the Howrah
hospital.
STATEMENT No. II.
Race and sex of patients.
Total for1 8 8 1 Males
F e m a l e s .
Children. T o t a l f o r
1 8 8 2
Europeans
9 , 6 9 6
5,729
1 , 6 4 6
1,692
9 , 0 6 7
Eurasians
3 4 , 2 1 3
9,610
6 , 5 8 8
12,050
2 8 , 2 4 8
Mahomedans
9 2 , 0 1 9
48,629
9 , 4 8 2
26,085
8 4 , 1 9 6
Hindus
1 , 2 9 , 1 2 486,680
1 5 , 7 6 6
19,073
1 , 2 1 , 5 1 9
Other races
10,662 2,868
2 , 2 7 7
4,908
1 0 , 0 5 3
Total
2 , 7 5 , 7 1 4
1,53,516
3 5 , 7 5 9
63,808
2 , 5 3 , 0 8 3
7. Comparison of the first and last columns yields the following results:—
European patients were less by 6 per cent than before, Eurasians by 17 per
cent, Mahomedans by 8 per cent, Hindus by 5 per cent, and other races by 5
per cent. These facts correspond with the account which Dr. Coates has
Oven of the apparent reduction at the Medical College. The largest difference
is among Eurasians who mainly frequent the College Hospital.
STATEMENT No. III
Deaths in Calcutta hospitals in 1882, and the seven previous years.
Y E A R S
ALL DISEASES EXCEPT CASES
TREA TED IN EYE INFIRMARY. CHOLERA
Death-rate e x c l u d i n g
c h o l e r a .
Number of
deaths regis-tered by the
municipality.
R a t e p e r
m i l l e o f p o p u l a t i o n s .
Treated.Died.
D i e d p e r
m i l l e .
T r e a t e d .
D i e d .
Died per mille
1 8 7 5
22,0623,641 165
7 2 8
3 7 1
509
1 5 3
14,08632.7
1 8 7 6
21,0873,064 145
6 9 5
3 6 9
530
1 3 2
12,96430.1
1 8 7 7
23,9773,172 132
5 4 5
2 8 4
521
1 2 3
13,70431.9
1 8 7 8 27,9084,518 161
5 7 9
3 2 3
557
1 5 3
16,39638.1
1 8 7 9
. . . 22,1973,602 162
6 3 4
3 5 1
553
1 5 0
13,04430.3
1 8 8 0
21,0322,906 138
3 5 6
1 8 3
514
1 3 1
11,68127.1
1881
20,1562,876 148
5 8 9
3 0 4
516
1 3 1
13,03030.0
1 8 8 2 20,0782,886 143
8 5 9
4 6 8
544
1 2 5
13,17730.4
8. Mortality.—The general death-rate in 1882 was moderate. It was
almost the same as that of 1881, viz., 143 against 142, notwithstanding increase
of cholera. Excluding this disease the death-rate was smaller than in any
year here recorded except 1877.
STATEMENT' No. IV.
Deaths of men, women, and children in 1882.
M E D I C A L I N S T I T U T I O N S .
M E N .
W O M E N .CHILDREN.
T r e a t e d .
D i e d .
T r e a t e d .
Died.
Treated.
D i e d .
Male.Female. Male.
Female.
M e d i c a l C o l l e g e H o s p i t a l 2 , 6 0 0
3 7 0
1 , 7 8 9
209 372 186
2 4
8
G e n e r a l H o s p i t a l
2 , 7 1 7
1 1 9
3 9 1
17
88 99
8 4
M a y o H o s p i t a l
1 , 7 7 8
3 0 5
2 7 4
56
42 31
5 3
C a m p b e l l H o s p i t a l
4 , 1 4 2
9 7 7
1 , 2 8 9
402 154 84
1 6
10
Police Hospital
2 , 4 3 8
3 3
. . . . . .
...... ...... ......
. . . . . .
......
H o w r a h H o s p i t a l
1 , 3 1 1
2 4 2
2 3 0
69
38 25
6 3
9. In the Medical College Hospital the death-rate of mixed adults was
131 per thousand, less by 3 than that of 1881. Of children there died only
57 per thousand against 92 in 1881. At the General Hospital the adult rate
was 43 per thousand, and the rate among children was 64. Here Europeans
only are received, and many cases of minor illness from the shipping, so that
the death-rate cannot be regarded as illustrating hospital practice. In the
Mayo Hospital the adult death-rate was 175.9, and that of children 109.5 per
mille. The corresponding figures in 1881 were 152.7 and 179 respectively.
At the Campbell Hospital the adult death-rate was 253 per thousand against
243 in 1881, and that of children 109. From cholera alone there were 134
deaths in this hospital against 79 in 1881. Last year also the number of
moribund persons admitted was larger than before. In the Police Hospital the
death-rate was, as a hospital rate, nominal. This has been explained before.
At Howrah adults died at the rate of 201 per thousand, and children at the
rate of 142. Here the death-rate is largely determined by numerous admis-
-sions of moribund and hopeless cases.