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REPORT ON THE
3. This greater unhealthiness was not accompanied by any increased
number of patients treated in the hospitals, but with a very considerable
diminution. The following statement shows the numbers treated in the Medical
Institutions :—
STATEMENT No. I.
MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.
1888.
1887.
TOTAL TREATED.
Died per
mille of
treated.
TOTAL TREATED.
Died per
mille of
treated.
In-door.
Out-door.
Total.
In-door.
Out-door.
Total.
Medical College Hospital ...
...
6,194
45,800
51,994
1021*
5,953
48,518
54,471
105.1*
General Hospital
2. 96
. . . .
2,968
37.39
2,966
. . .
2,966
41.1
Mayo Institutions
...
...
2,833
174,769
177,602
97.42
2,736
179,249
181,985
85.5
Campbell Hospital
...
. . . .
6,497
215'94
6,432
......
6,432
210.35
Municipal Police Hospital
...
2,735
......
2,735
10.96
2,738
......
2,738
8.4
Total Calcutta hospitals
...
21,227
220,569
241,796
115.82*
20,825
227,767
248,592
113.39*
Howrah General Hospital
...
1,385
10,525
11,910
247.65
1,502
11,083
12,585
183.7
Grand Total
...
22,612
231,094
253,706
124.05*
22,327
238,850
261,177
118.21*
* Reckoned on cases treated exclusive of cases treated in the ophthalmic ward of the Medical College Hospital.
•
It will be seen that the attendance at the hospitals was less by 7,471 than
in 1887, which affords a confirmation of what was pointed out in the last
annual report, viz., that there is little or no connection between the number of
patients treated in the hospitals and the prevalence of disease in Calcutta, its
suburbs, and Howrah, as indicated by the mortality among the general popula
- t i o n o f t h e s e p l a c e s .
4. Numbers treated in Hospital.— The total number of patients treated in
all the hospitals during the year, exclusive of the voluntary lock-hospitals (which
have now been excluded from the list of medical institutions embraced in
this report), was 253,706 against 261,177 in 1887, the difference being 7,471..
As regards in-door patients, the numbers treated show little variation at all the
institutions when compared with those of the previous year, but there has been
a considerable diminution of out- door patients at the Medical College Hospital
and Mayo Institutions, and more particularly at the latter. There has also been
a decrease at the Howrah Hospital.
5. The fluctuations in the out-door attendance of an hospital are often
very difficult to explain, and occasionally bear no relation to the amount of
attention and skill bestowed by medical officers in charge; but as regards the
cause of the recorded decrease at the Calcutta institutions generally during the
past year, it is impossible to hazard a conjecture because the annual returns of
the Chandney Hospital, where nearly one-third of all the out-patients of
Calcutta are supposed to be treated, have been pronounced to be inaccurate.
The Resident Medical Officer of this institution has recently been changed, and
it is to be hoped that more reliable returns may in future be obtained—a result
which a little closer supervision on the part of the Superintendent cannot fail to
secure.
6, The death-rate among the treated was 124 per mille as compared with
118 .21 in 1887.
STATEMENT No. II.
Race and sex of out-door and in-door patients.
Total for 1887.
Male.
Female.
Children.
Total for 1888.
Europeans
...
...
7,540
5,725
1,808
1,647
9,180
Eurasians
...
...
29,088
8,991
6,779
9,931
25,701
Mahomedans
... ...
91,194
52,701
9,963
25,149
87,813
Hindus
...
...
1,23,805
88,003
15,358
18,645
1,22,006
Other races
... ...
9,550
2,852
2,122
4,032
9,006
Total
...
2,61,177
1,58,272
36,030
59,404
2,53,706