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REPORT ON THE
"The orders of the Government of Bengal were distinct that the number
of pupils was to be limited only by the amount of accommodation available,
and that as soon as suitable lodging could be found at the General Hospital,
pupils should also be received there for general training in sick nursing, prior to
their course at the Eden Hospital as midwives. * * * * The Committee
beg me to state that they are prevented from any further increase in
their nursing staff, owing to want of accommodation for more nurses. The
quarters were built at the General Hospital for 24 nurses, and the build-
ing is quite full. Two years ago the Government of Bengal sanctioned
a plan and an estimate for joining the nurses' quarters to the Canning Home,
thereby providing for six additional nurses, and also securing a covered way
for the sisters from the Canning Home to the hospital through the nurses'
quarters. As it is they are unprotected both from rain and sun. Apparently,
though sanctioned, this scheme has been abandoned, and the Committee are
anxious to represent that it is owing alone to want of more accommodation
that further improvement in the Hospital Nurses’ Institution is impossible.
The Committee are quite ready to increase the number as soon as accommoda-
tion can be provided.”
41. Ophthalmic practice.—In the ophthalmic wards of the Medical College
Hospital 527 in-patients were treated as compared with 509, 501, 608, 516
and 523 in the five preceding years. Of this number 300 were cured
and 105 were relieved, making a total of 405 as contrasted with 385 in
1883. In the out-patients department there were treated during the same
period 6,274 cases. The number in 1883 was 6,910.
42. The total operations for cataract amounted to 315; of these 236
were cured, 25 relieved, 32 were discharged ‘‘ otherwise,” 20 remained in
hospital at the end of the year, and the result of 2 were not known. The
corresponding figures for 1883 were 270, 161, 41, 44 and 24. The results
obtained in 1884 contrasts most favourably with those recorded in 1883.
Of the 315 patients operated upon in 1884, no less than 236 recovered, or at
the rate of 74 . 9 per cent. of total treated as against 270 with only 161 cures
or 59 . 63 per cent. in 1883.
STATEMENT No. VIII.
Account of invested capital for the year 1884.
Balance on
1st January.
Invested
during . the
year
Total.
Securities
sold.
Deposits
withdrawn.
Balance on
31st
December.
Rs.
Rs.
Rs.
Rs.
Its.
Rs.
Medical College Hospital ... ... ... ...
1,13,300
600
1,13,900
1,13,900
Choonee Lall Seal's Dispensary ... ... ...
50,000
......
50,000
50,000
Presidency General Hospital ... ... ... ...
.....
m ayo Hospital
3,42,400
5,000
3,47,400
......
3,47,400
Campbell Hospital ... ... ... ... ... ...
Police Hospital ... ... ... ... ... ...
Howrah General Hospital ... ... .... ... ...
42,000
......
42,000
42,000
Total ...
5,47,700
5,600
5,53,300
5,53,300
43. Finance.—The invested capital exists in the funds held by the
Medical College, Howrah and the Mayo Hospitals. During the year under
report Medical College and Mayo Hospitals invested Rs. 600 and Rs. 5,000
respectively. The total invested capital at the end of the year was
Rs. 5,33,300.