RESOLUTION.
MEDICAL.
Calcutta, the 3rd December 1887.
READ—
The Report on the Calcutta Medical Institutions for the year 1886.
Read also
—
The Report for the year 1885, and the Resolution recorded upon it.
The public health of Calcutta was much better in 1886 than in any one of
the eleven preceding years. There was a remarkable decrease in the number
of deaths from small-pox, and fevers diarrhœa and dysentery proved less fatal.
The general death-rate of the town from all causes was 26.42 per mille, the
lowest on record during the past twelve years, and smaller by nearly three per
mille than last year.
2. The following table shows the extent to which the public resorted to
the hospitals as patients during the past two years :—
1 8 8 6
1885.
MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.
TOTAL TREATED.
Died per
mille
of treated.
TOTAL TREATED.
D i e d p e r m i l l e
of treated.
In-door. Out-door. Total.
Indoor. Out-door. Total.
Medical College Hospital ... ...
5,880
49,985
5 5 , 8 6 5
101.7*
5,897
47,149
53,046
104.41*
General Hospital
. . .
. . .
.
3,696
. . . . . .
3 , 6 9 6
38.69
3.417
. . . . . .
3,417
31.02
Mayo Hospital and dispensaries ...
2,697
177,817
180,514
104.5
2,564
179,208
181,772
110.37
Campbell Hospital ...
. . .
. . .
7,313
.....
7 , 3 1 3
198.68
7,611
......
7,611
212.06
Municipal Police Hospital
...
2,396
. . . . . .
2,396
12.1
2,329
. . . . . .
2,329
12.02
Voluntary Lock Hospitals
484
1,629
2,113
47.52
414
1,889
2,303
43.47
Total Calcutta Hospitals ...
22,466
229,431
251,897
110.65*
22,232
228,246
250,478
120.23*
Howrah General Hospital
...
1,615
10,949
12,561
167.8
1,631
11,518
13,149
199.87
GRAND TOTAL ...
24,081
240,380
264,461
116.49*
23,863
239,764
263,627
125.79*
* Reckoned on cases treated, exclusive of ophthalmic cases.
An increase is shown in the number of in-door patients at all except the
Medical College and Campbell Hospitals. In only one of the three Calcutta
hospitals which receive out-door patients, viz., the Medical College, was
there an increase in attendance. The general death-rate of the Calcutta
hospitals was 110.65 per mille against 120.23 in 1885. If the Howrah figures are
included, the rate was 116.49 against 125.79, a figure lower than any year since
1879. A decrease in the death-rate is shown at all except the General and
the Voluntary Lock Hospitals, where the rate rose from 31.02 and 43.47 to
38.69 and 47.52, respectively. If cholera deaths are excluded, the general
death-rate among all races was 101 per mille against 113 in the previous year.
If moribund and cholera cases are both excluded from the list of deaths among
natives, the true native death-rate was 112.7 against 118.07 in 1885.
3. Of the total number (264,461) of persons treated during the year,
157,851 were adult males, 39,448 were females, and 67,162 were children.
The proportion of male to female adults was therefore about 4 to 1. The
numbers according to race were 10,239 Europeans, 28,427 Eurasians, 93,517
Mahomedans, 122,564 Hindus, and 9,714 of other races. These figures differ
in a very small degree from those recorded in 1885, the number of Hindus,
who visited the hospitals, having slightly decreased, while for all other races,
the number of patients is rather larger than in the previous year.
4. The number of important surgical operations performed during the year
was 1,561 against 1,505 in the previous year. The number of minor
operations undertaken was 19,040 against 18,042 in 1885.