(2 )
The number of in-patients fell from 21,458 in 1880 to 20,764 during the year
under review. The decrease was confined to the Campbell Hospital (807) and
the General Hospital (305). There was an increase of 292 at the Medical
College and an increase of 83 at Howrah, while in the Mayo and Police
Hospitals the numbers were practically unchanged. It is explained that only
a portion of the Campbell Hospital building was available for patients during
several months owing to the extensive repair works that were being carried
out. Part of the increase at the Medical College is attributed to this cause.
Out-door patients are treated only at the Medical College and the Mayo
and Howrah Hospitals. There was an increase in the two former of 1,210
and 3,097 respectively, while at Howrah there was a falling off of 834. The
total increase over the numbers of 1880 was therefore 3,473. The out-door
practice of the Mayo Hospital and its associated dispensaries was as
follows : —
Mayo
Hospital
Chandnee
ditto
Chitpore
Dispensary
Park Street
ditto
Sukea Street ditto
48,059
68,592
19,908
31.282
15,513
The daily average of patients at each of the hospitals was
—
In-door.
Out-door,
Medical College
2 7 6 . 7
385.4
General Hospital
...
Mayo Hospital, &c. ...
136.4
93.3
. . .
1,349.4
Campbell
Hospital
3 7 2 . 3
. . .
Police
ditto
98.7
. . .
Howrah General ditto
63.2
1 1 0 . 4
Out of 275,174 persons treated, 165,945 were adult males, 39,209 adult
females, and 70,560 children. The proportion of male to female adults is
rather more than 4 to 1—much the same as in former years. The number
of in-patients was,—adult males 14,867, adult females 4,183, and children
1,186. It thus appears that the proportion of males to females was less among
the in-patients than among the out-patients.
3. The following table shows the mortality in the Calcutta hospitals
in each year since 1874. Cases treated in the Eye Infirmary have been
excluded :—
YEARS .
ALL DISEASES EXCEPT CASES
TREATED IN EYE INFIRMARY.
CHOLERA.
Death-rate
excluding
cholera,
Number of
deaths re is-
tered by the
municipality,
Rate per
mille of
population .
Treated.
Died.
D ied per per
mille.
Treated.
Died.
Died per
mille.
1874 ... ...
...
19,490
3,037
155
628
311
495
144
11,526
26.8
1875 ...
...
...
22,062
3,641
165
6 2 8
371
509
153
14,036
3 2 . 7
1876 ...
. . . . . .
21,087
3,064
145
695
869
530
132
12,964
30'1
1877 ...
...
...
23,967
3,172
132
545
284
521
123
13,704
31'9
1873 ...
...
...
27,908
4,518
161
569
323
556
153
16,396
38'1
.
1869 ...
...
..,
22,197
3.602
162
634
351
553
150
13,044
30'3
1880 ...
...
,.,
21,032
2,906
138
356
183
514
131
11,681
27'1
1881 ... ... ...
20,156
2,866
142
689
304
516
131
13,030
30.0
The small excess over the previous year is wholly attributable to deaths from
cholera. The mortality among hospital patients was, as a rule, greater among
adults than among children. Thus the death-rates per 1,000 in each of the
Calcutta institutions, exclusive of the Police Hospital, were-
Medical College
General Hospital
Campbell ditto
Mayo
ditto
Howrah ditto
Adults,
131.4
4 , 6 . 4
243. 3
1521
...
194'S
Children.
92.4
69
1021
179
125
Total.
129.8
47.8
237.4
153.8
192
The conditions of the General Hospital are exceptional. In all the others,
except the Mayo, the death-rate is lower for children than for adults; but the
whole number of children treated was comparatively so small that it produced
little effect on the combined death-rate.
The Surgeon-General writes thus with regard to the features of particular
diseases noticed during the past year
: -
Cholera showed considerable increase in the hospitals as it did in the Town.
The proportion of deaths to cases was an ordinary rate. Small-pox showed the same
prevalence and rather less fatality than in the previous year. Of fevers there were
fewer cases, but they were more fatal than before. This greater fatality fell chiefly
on natives of Calcutta, and did not extend to Howrah, where, however, European cases
tr