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REPORT ON THE CALCUTTA MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.
96. The sickness and mortality in the year under report, and in three
preceding years are exhibited in the following table :—
YEARS.
EUROPEANS AND EAST INDIANS.
NATIVES.
TREATED .
Died
(in-door).
Ratio per
1,000 of deaths
to treated.
TREATED.
Died
(in do
or).
Ratio per
1,000 o
f d e a t h
t o t r e a t e d .
In
Out
In
Out
1883
...
...
696
4,371
16
22.99
935
7,325
311
332.62
1884
694
3,161
28
40.34
874
6,688
321
367.27
1885
761
4,130
26
34.16
870
7,388
300
344.82
1 8 8 6
. . .
. . .
804
3,541
31
38.55
811
7,408
240
295.93
The increase in the number of European in patients during the year
is said to have been due to the larger number of seamen living in Howrah
; s e v e r a l o f t h e C a l c u t t a b o a r d i n g h o u s e s f o r s e a m e n h a v i n g o p e n e d b r a n c h e s i n
Howrah. The death-rate among European in-patients was greater as com-
pared with that of 1883 and 1885, but it was less than that of 1884.
Among the natives the death-rate was less than in either of the three
preceding years. Of the 240 deaths, 59 occurred within 24 hours after admis-
sion, and 81 deaths occurred among patients who had been in the hospital
over ten days.
97. Conservancy arrangements of the hospital are said to be satisfactory.
Water for drinking purpose is obtained in the same way as described in the
previous year. The Superintendent says the whole of the buildings connected
with the hospital were thoroughly repaired during 1886. The flooring of the
main ward was dismantled and iron girders were substituted. A cow-shed was
put up for the accommodation of the cows
required to supply the hospital with
milk—an arrangement, says Dr. Pilcher, which promises better results than
buying milk from a contractor, who gathered it from many sources of the town.
CALCUTTA. VOLUNTARY LOCK HOSPITALS.
98. Surgeon-Major S. C. Mackenzie, M.D., was in charge of these institu-
tions throughout the year.
99. There were treated 484 in-patients in the hospitals during 1886
against 414 in 1885, showing an increase of 70. The daily average number
of patients treated was 103.4 against 90. in 1885. This shows that each
patient on the average continued in the hospital 77 days in 1886 and 79 days in
1885. Of the total number of in-door cases 42 were Europeans and 442
natives. Eighty-nine patients, viz., Europeans 42 and natives 47, were treated
in the Sealdah Lock-hospital, against 93, or 48 Europeans and 45 natives in
1885: Three hundred and ninety-five (natives) patients were treated in the
Alipore, Lock hospital against 321 in the previous year. The total number
of admissions was 368 of which 74 were received on transfer, viz., 73 from
Campbell hospital and one from Choonee L all Seal's dispensary. The
corresponding numbers in 1885, were 342 and 100. There were 23 deaths
among the in-door patients, or a rate of 4.7 per cent. on total cases treated, against
18 and 4.9 per cent. respectively in the preceding year. There were treated in
the hospitals 1,629 out-patients (all natives, against 1,889 in 1885, showing a
decrease of 260 patients. The daily average number was 6.2 against 6.5 in the
previous year. Of the total number of out-door cases, 38 (natives) were treated
in the Sealdah Lock Hospital against 39 in 1885. One thousand five hundred
and ninety one patients (natives) were treated in the Alipore Lock Hospital
against 1,850 in the preceding year. There were 337 inter-current affections
treated in the hospital among in-door patients during 1886 against 301 in 1885.
The principal inter-current affections were ague, rheumatism, dysentery, and
splenitis. No cases of cholera or small-pox occurred in the hospitals during
the year 1886.
I have the honour to be,
SIR,
Your most obedient servant,
A. J. COWIE,
Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Bengal.