CALCUTTA MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.23
STATEMENT No. XIV.
Showing the Work and the Cost of Working in the several Medical Institutions.
AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE.
C o s t o f e s t a b l i s h m e n t e x - c l u d i n g c o m m i s s i o n e d o f f i - c e r s .
C o s t o f E n g l i s h a n d b a z a r m e d i c i n e s .
C o s t o f d i e t s , e x t r a s , a n d s t i m u l a n t s .
M i s c e l l a n e o u s c h a r g e s .
T o t a l e x p e n d i t u r e o n t h e s i c k .
E x p e n d e d b y G o v e r n m e n t , i n - c l u s i v e o f b u i l d i n g c h a r g e s .
In-patients.
Out-patients.
All races.
E u r o p e a n s a n d E u r a s i a n s .
Na t i ve s .
T o t a l .
E u r o p e a n s a n d E u r a s i a n s .
Na t i v e s .
T o t a l .
I n - p a t i e n t s .
O u t - p a t i e n t s .
Rs.
Rs.
Rs.
Rs.
Rs.
R s .
Medical College Hospital (including Eye Infirm-ary)
124
164 288
104
334
438 288
438 *47,980
† 1 2 , 8 1 5 29,753
9,915 1,00,463 1,09,829
152
. . . . . . 152
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . . . . 152
. . . . . . 22,714
7,032
2 8 , 4 1 8
6,685
6 4 , 8 4 9 37,183
General Hospital
Campbell ditto
.5
404 404.5
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . . . . 404.5
. . . . . . 23,279
5,584
24,363
6,611
59,837
37,562
Police
ditto
......
107 107
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . . . . 107
. . . . . . 5,215
226
6,615
513
12,569
3,048
Mayo
ditto
. . . . . .
9 5
9 5
. . . . . . 1,418 1.418
95
1,418
27,867
7,910
5 , 8 4 9
7,199
48,825
37,370
Howrah ditto
27
3 7
6 4
1 8
86
104
64
104 10,645
2,453
5,996
7,S40
26,934
8,650
Total
303.5
807 1,110.5 122 1,838 1,960 1,110.5 1,960 1,37,700
36,020 1,00,994
38,763 3,13,477 2,33,642
* Inclusive of Rs. 12,000 debitable to hospital as salaries of two resident medical officers who are in excess of hospital staff of other
institutions.
† Inclusive of Rs. 2,712 paid from Choonee Lall Seal's Dispensary Funds.
MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL.
67. Surgeon-Major J. M. Coates took charge of the hospital from Surgeon-
Major D. B. Smith on 1st April. Surgeon-Major K. McLeod was First Surgeon,
and Surgeon-Major D. Raye was Second Surgeon. Surgeon-Major T. E. Charles,
Obstetric Physician, having left India on leave, Surgeon-Major R. Harvey was
appointed to act in his place from 10th September.
68.
The death-rate in hospital in all races was 128 per 1,000 of total
treated, against 130, 135, 108, 136, and 152 in the five preceding years.
Excluding 146 moribund cases, in which 24 cholera cases are not included,
the rate per 1,000 was 96.8. Including the cholera cases among the moribunds,
the death-rate for 1880 is reduced to 91.4 per 1,000, to compare with 93, 111,
91, 103, and 128 of the five preceding years. Christians died at the rate of
69.6 per 1,000, including the moribunds, against 69.14, 70, 48, 71, and 59 in
the five preceding years. The death-rate among the Natives was 195 per
1,000 of total treated, against 190, 215, 166, 193, and 222 in the five preceding
years. Dr. Coates states that the exceptionally low number of weak pauper
patients transferred to the Sealdah Hospital in 1880, owing to want of accommo-
dation there, has materially augmented the Native death-rate. The number
transferred was 537 in 1880, against 902 and 1,653 in the two preceding
years.
69.
The following table exhibits the death-rates from principal diseases
among Christians and Natives separately for 1880 and two preceding
years:—
DISEASES.
1878.
1879.
1880.
Christians.
Natives.
Christians.
Natives.
Christians.
Natives.
Fevers
35.2
201.9
46.05
121.09
37.7
89.0
Dysentery and diarrhœa
101.9
276.0
128.65
318.9
93.7
210.5
Cholera
450.0
597.9
400.0
566.26
857.14
568.6
Chest affections
123.7
285.7
65.0
314.2
88.4
156.2
70.
There was a considerable decrease in the admissions of European
male adults owing to the reception of nearly all seamen from the port into
the General Hospital. The number admitted in 1880 was 280, against 380 and.
867 in the two previous years. The patients treated in the European wards
were, however, more numerous in 1880 than the previous year, but the absence
of a truly European element, and the substitution of a more weakly class of