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REPORT ON THE
10. Particular diseases among in-door patients—Small-pox —Calcutta continues
to be practically free from this disease, there having been 11 cases in 1886, 18
in 1887, and 23 in 1888. All patients suffering from this disease are now only
admitted into the Campbell Hospital, where special wards have been construct
- e d f o r t h e m .
Cholera —Increased during the year, 905 cases having been under treat-
ment in all the hospitals, and of these 521, or about 575 per mille, proved fatal.
The disease is not reported to have broken out among the patients under
treatment in any of the hospitals.
Dysentery decreased somewhat both in its prevalence and in the morta-
lity it occasioned.
Malarial Fevers.—The figures under this head show decrease.
Venereal diseases. —The return shows a large diminution of these affections
owing partly to the exclusion from it of the cases treated in the voluntary lock-
hospitals. The figures, however, refer only to in-door cases treated in the
hospitals ; but if out-door patients are taken into account, as well as all those
treated in the voluntary lock-hospitals, it will be found that there has been a
general diminution of venereal affections in 1888 as compared with 1887, the
total figures for the two years being 13,038 and 14,618 respectively.
Rheumatic and tubercular affections have been somewhat more prevalent
during the past year judging from the increased number under treatment.
The figures which appear under many of the other headings of this return
do not call for any special remark, and merely indicate the ordinary fluctuations
which occur from year to year in the prevalence of the different diseases.
STATEMENT No. VI.
ENTERIC FEVER.
R E M I T T E N T F E V E R .
1 8 7 1 . 1 8 7 2 . 1 8 7 3 . 1 8 7 4 . 1 8 7 5 . 1 8 7 6 . 1 8 7 7 . 1 8 7 8 .
1 8 7 9 . 1 8 8 0 . 1 8 8 1 . 1 8 8 2 . 1 8 8 3 . 1 8 8 4 . 1 8 8 5 . 1 8 8 6 . 1 8 8 7 . 1 8 8 8 . 1 8 7 1 . 1 8 7 2 . 1 8 7 3 . 1 8 7 4 . 1 8 7 5 . 1 8 7 6 .
1 8 7 7 .
1 8 7 8 .
1 8 7 9 . 1 8 8 0 . 1 8 8 1 . 1 8 8 2 .
1 8 8 3 . 1 8 8 4 . 1 8 8 5 . 1 8 8 6 . 1 8 8 7 . 1 8 8 8 .
Medical College Hos-
pital.
3 5 9 5 6 6 1 ... 2 ... ... ... ... 1 1 1 ...... . . . 42 80 86 58 125 95 124 152 1641 180 196 150 119 106 92 73 94 90
Presidency General
Hospital.
15 17 6 11 12 17 18 9 11 6 11 12 1 10 17 17 11 9 45 19 22 10 48 27 39 38 34 49 32 40 45 26 53 75 26 35
Howrah Hospital ... ... ... .
. . . . ..
4 2 4 2 3 3 ... ... ... ... 2 1 16 28 88 146 172 210 359 393 228 1071 77 73 30 82 86 55 33 44
Mayo Institutions ... . . 6 2 1 5 6 ... ... ... ... 1 ... ... ... ... ... ... .... 6 15 13 22 35 36 174 224 130 208 221 143 212 210 197 123 92 61
Campbell Hospital
. . 94 86 28 2 .... . . . . . . . . . ...... ... ... ... ... .. .
... ... 181 239 212 495 466 438 432 466 333 354 309 301 322 462 314 316 220 250
Police Hospital
. . 4 12 8 11 . . . 14 11 2 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . 1
. . .
. . . 11 29 28 58 41 52 44 61 64 75 77
Total ... 116 126 5 3 30 23 43 34 13 18 8 15 15 1 11 20 18 13 10 290 381 421 731 847 806 1,128 1,284 918 926 893 748 730 930 803 706 540 557
1 1 .
E n t e r i c F e v e r .
— F r o m
t h e a b o v e r e t u r n i t w i l l b e s e e n t h a t t h e n u m b e r
of cases of enteric fever which comes under treatment in the hospitals of Cal-
cutta continues to be very small, forming a great contrast with its prevalence at
up-country stations. Only the Presidency General and Howrah Hospitals show
any admissions for this disease.
12. Cerebro-spinal Fever.—Three cases with two deaths came under treat
-ment at the Mayo Institutions, but none at any of the other hospitals.