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REPORT ON THE
confirm these views. The largest hospital mortality from cholera occurred in
the Campbell : the Mayo gives the next largest number of deaths—nearly
all the hospital returns showing an increase from this disease, the total
mortality being 424 in 1886 against 362 in 1885, while the total deaths from
all causes decreased from 2,936 in the year 1885 to 2,756 in that under
report, exclusive of the one death from among the cases in the ophthalmic
ward. The hospital death-rate per mille was 116.49 in 1886 against 125.79
in 1885. The Campbell Hospital furnished the largest mortality from bowel-
c o mp l a i n t s ; b u t h e r e e v e n , a l t h o u g h f a t a l c h o l e r a i n c r e a s e d s l i g h t l y , t h e
figures being 132 in 1885 and 142 in 1886, fatal dysentery and diarrhœa
decreased very remarkably, or from 787 to 483 in the same period. Considering
the constitution of this institution—the Municipal Pauper Hospital, or Calcutta
"Union and Infirmary," Blind Asylum and Hospital for Incurables, all in
one—that it should give a higher death-rate from diseases of the digestive
system than any of our large metropolitan hospitals is, precisely what might
be expected. This pauper institution is undoubtedly a better index of the public
health of the city and its suburbs than all the others put together; and the
reduction in the death-rate recorded in it in 1886, is marked and satisfac-
tory: it is the lowest rate registered in the past 17 years, and can be explained
in no other way than by the greater healthiness of Calcutta during 1886.
STATEMENT No. I.
Showing Numbers treated in the Institutions.
MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.
1886.
1885.
TOTAL TREATED.
TOTAL TREATED.
In-door. Out-door. Total.
D i e d p e r m i l l e o f t r e a t e d .
In-door. Out-door. Tot al .
Died per
mille
of treated.
Medical College Hospital ... ...
5,880
49,985
55,865
101.7*
5,897
47,149
53,046
104.41*
General Hospital
3,60
. . . . . .
3,696
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
. . . . . .
7,313
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
12,564
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.
5. Numbers treated in hospital. —The total number of in-door patients
treated in the institutions during 1886 was 24,081, against 23,863 in 1885, or an
increase of 218 patients. The increase took place in the General Hospital (279),
the Mayo and Chandney Hospitals (133), the Municipal Police Hospital (67), and
the Lock Hospitals (70). The numbers fell in the Medical College, the Campbell
and Howrah Hospitals. Out-door practice was reduced in the Mayo institutions,
the Voluntary Lock and Howrah Hospitals. The Medical College Hospital shows
an accession of no less than 2,836 out-patients treated in the year, the total
figures being 47,149 in 1885 and 49,985 in 1886. There was a considerable
decrease in the out-door attendance at the Lock Hospitals, which amounted to
no less than 260 patients.
6. The following abstract shows the in-door patients treated in the
several institutions under report :—
1886.
1885.
Medical College
...
. . .
...
5,880
5,897
General Hospital
...
. . .
...
3,696
3,417
Mayo and Chandney Hospitals
...
...
2,697
2,564
Campbell Hospital
...
. .
...
7,313
7,611
Police Hospital
...
. . .
...
2,396
2,329
Voluntary Lock Hospital
. . .
...
484
414
Howrah General Hospital
...
...
1,615
1,631
Total
.....
24,081
23,863