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CALCUTTA MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.
STATEMENT IV.
Deaths of men, women, and children in 1884.
MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.
MEN.
WOMEN.
CHILDREN.
Treated.
Died.
Treated.
Died.
Treated.
Died.
Male. Female Male. Female.
Medical College hospital*
...
...
...
...
2,902
422
1,838
142
348
434
9
7
General hospital ...
...
...
...
...
...
2,550
86
371
21
64
88
7
10
Mayo hospital
...
...
...
...
...
...
2,040
325
296
55
71
44
5
Campbell hospital ...
4,673
1,071
1,521
431
06
125
13
25
Police hospital...
... ... ... ...
.
...
2,221
24
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
Howrah General hospital
...
...
1,304
277
198
59
36
30
7
6
* Inclusive of cases treated in the Opthalmic ward.
17. In the Medical College the death-rate of mixed adults was 119
per thousand, or greater by 11 than that of 1883. At the General Hospital the
adult rate was 36.6 per thousand, and among children 111.84. In the Mayo
the adult rate was 162.67 per thousand, and that of children 95.65. At the
Campbell Hospital the adult rate was 242.49, and that of children 114.8 per
thousand. At the Howrah Hospital the adult rate was 223.7 per thousand,
and that of children 196.96. The total number of children treated in all the
institutions during 1884 exceeded that registered in 1883 by 370, or at the rate
of 67.7 per thousand against 52.79 in 1883.
18. The Police Hospital is a special hospital, and partakes more of the
character of a native regimental one than a charitable institution. Its
statistics, therefore, admit of no useful comparison with those of other hospitals.
Here, however, it is worthy of note that the total sick of the force treated
declined from 2,377 in 1883 to 2,221 in 1884, the deaths receding from 28 to
24 in the same period. The corresponding figures for the year 1882 were 2,438
and 33.
19. Particular Diseases.—I have already stated that, in the year under
report, the quantity of fever and its sequelæ, varied but little from that of
1883, but was quite as fatal, and that while the deaths from diarrhœa
increased in the Campbell Hospital they fell elsewhere. Dysentery increased
in quantity but decreased in severity. Cholera and small-pox furnished a large
mortality, although the percentage of deaths to total treated of both diseases
s h e w e d t h a t t h e y w e r e o f a l e s s f a t a l t y p e t h a n i n 1 8 8 3 . I n t h e S m a l l - p o x
Hospital at Sealdah 251 persons were treated in 1884. It is recorded
that of this number 85 had been vaccinated, of whom 16 died; 5 had
suffered from a previous attack of the disease, of whom none died; that 28
had been inoculated, of whom 12 died; and that 133 were unprotected
altogether, of whom 57 died. Extensive additions and alterations were
sanctioned and completed in the European and Native small-pox wards
at Sealdah during the year. The furnishing will be completed as required. In
like manner in the autumn, at the General Hospital, the Sumbhu Nath Pundit
building, which in recent years has been unused, was converted into a small
- p o x h o s p i t a l . I t i s i n t e n d e d f o r p a y i n g p a t i e n t s o n l y , a n d i s n o w a d m i r a b l y
adapted for its purpose. The proximity of the structure to the eastern block
of the General Hospital need occasion no anxiety. No harm will result if the
rules are observed in their integrity, and perfect sanitation and complete isola-
tion are insisted upon. If there is danger at any time of small-pox spreading
to the patients in the General Hospital, or to others, it will not arise from the
nearness of the Sumbhu Nath building to that institution, but from the in-
fringement of the rules, which strictly prohibit all manner of intercourse
between patients or attendants, &c., in the two enclosures. In this hospital
eight cases of small-pox were treated in the year 1884, with one death.