REPORT
ON THE
CALCUTTA MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS
FOR THE YEAR 1888.
No. 6214.
FROM A. HILSON, ESQ., M.D.,
Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Bengal,
To THE CHIEF SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF BENGAL.
Dated Darjeeling, the 12th July 1889.
S I R ,
IN submitting the annual report of the Medical Institutions of
Calcutta for the past year, it is necessary to state that it has been written under
considerable disadvantages, because having been employed in another part of
India for some months past, I have not had an opportunity of making myself
acquainted, by personal inspection, with many of the occurrences which have
recently taken place in them.
2. The mortality of the town and suburbs of Calcutta, and also of
Howrah, is given in the following table, from which it may be inferred that the
health of the general population has not been so good as in the previous year.
In most of these localities the death-rate has increased, chiefly from the greater
prevalence of cholera and of those diseases classified under the heading of
"other causes," while the number of deaths from fevers, bowel-complaints and
small-pox has varied little from that of the previous year :—
Deaths from the most prevalent diseases in the town of Calcutta, Howrah, and Suburbs
of Calcutta.
CHOLERA.
BOWEL-
COMPLAINTS.
FEVERS.
SMALL-POX. OTHER CAUSES.
TOTAL.
RATIO PER MILLE
OF POPULATION.
YEAR.
T o w n o f C a l c u t t a . T o wn o f Ho wr a h .
S u b u r b s o f C a l c u t t a .
T o w n o f C a l c u t t a . T o wn o f Ho wr a h .
S u b u r b s o f C a l c u t t a . T o w n o f C a l c u t t a .
T o w n o f H o w r a h .
S u b u r b s o f C a l c u t t a .
T o w n o f C a l c u t t a . T o w n o f H o w r a h .
S u b u r b s o f C a l c u t t a .
T o w n o f C a l c u t t a . v
S u b u r b s o f C a l c u t t a .
T o w n o f C a l c u t t a .
T o w n o f H o w r a h .
S u b u r b s o f C a l c u t t a .
T o w n o f C a l c u t t a . T o wn o f Ho wr a h .
S u b u r b s o f C a l c u t t a .
1876 ... 1,851 512 3,119 1,864 638 2,428 4,361 1,440 4,819
71 43 152 4,817 544 3,664 12,964 3,177 14,182 30.1 32.48 54.77
1877 ... 1,418 437 2,018 1,683 634 3,127 5,151 1,341 6,710
67 78 23 5,385 580 4,165 13,704 3,070 16,043 31.9 31.39 62.38
1878 .. 1,338 615 2,364 2,010 698 3,042 6,086 1,695 7,915 1,495 118 585 5,467 378 3,308 16,396 3,504 17,214 38.1
35.83 66.94
1879 ...
1,186 397 1,870 1,516 522 2,404 4,796 1,225 5,999
772 78 791 4,774 263 2,570 13,044 2,485 13,634 30.3
25.41 53.01
1880 ...
805 217
997 1,267 347 2,018 3,797 1,562 5,153
114 82 49 5,698 275 3,236 11,681 2,483 11,453 27.1
25.39 44.53
1881 ... 1,693 489 1,971 1,491 514 1,981 3,765 1,570 5,075
133 33 75 5,948 372 3,119 13,030 2,978 12,221 30.
30.45 47.52
1882 ... 2,240 668 2,470 1,454 527 1,759 3,618 1,068 4,313
17
2 25 5,848 376 2,923 13,177 2,641 11,490 30.4 25.00 45.69
1883 ... 2,037 653 2,177 1,307 425 1,697 3,442
933 4,042
73
6 92 5.466 415 2,824 12,325 2,432 10,832 28.
23.02 43.08
1884 ... 2,272 707 2,421 1,209 379 1,590 3,618
841 3,897
478 25 249 5,679 645 3,232 13,256 2,597 11,389 30.5
28.59 45.29
1885 ...
1,603 372 1,877 1,655 451 2,099 3,831
928 4,109
155 21 69 5,463 665 3,113 12,707 2,437 11,267 29.3
26.83 44.81
1886 ..
1,741 528 1,845 1,258 343 1,682 3,422
674 3,590
15 ...
7 5,011 511 3,063 11,447 2,056 10,187 26.42 22.63 40.51
1887
1,198 295 2,090 1,197 340 1,817 3,253
5 1 5 3,675
2 12
6 5,329 432 3,017 10,979 1,594 10,605 25.34 17.55 42.17
1888 ... 1,734 598 2,583 1,056 402 1,608 3,198
525 3,605
12
4 17 5,685 440 2,873 11,685 1,969 10,686 26.97 21.68 42.49