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something different from that which produces typhoid (enteric) typhus,
Relapsing and Remittent fevers, though equally pythogenic in its nature and
source, the question to be solved is what is the pythogenous agent?
74. If we accept the view that cerebro-spinal fever is a specific febrile
disease, is it an ally of the fevers I have just named? Is there a specific
contagion present which only assumes an epidemic form when the poor crowd
together—living under the worst possible insanitary conditions—and bred of
foul air and defective diet? It has been asserted that this cannot be so, because
the robust, and, to all appearance, healthy are attacked by the disease with the
impoverished. What sort of argument is this? Do the robust never die?
Once start any one of the fevers I have mentioned, and I could readily add
to their number, under a favourable concatination of circumstances, and
down will go the robust with the weakly when forced to live together.
75. Should the results of our investigations prove so much, then cerebro-
spinal fever is a preventable disease, and as such would become of serious con-
cern to the public, and of vast importance and significance to the Government.
76.
Nursing. —I have nothing but good to record of this department. I
can fully endorse the high testimony borne to the admirable services rendered
by the Ladies of the Clewer Sisterhood.
77. Mrs. Horace Cockerell, the Honorary Secretary to the Calcutta
Hospital Nurses' Institution and the Lady Canning Home, has continued by her
advice and business tact to aid me in many ways, and to her I would tender
my sincere thanks.
78. Dr. Coates, Principal of the Medical College Hospital, writes: "The
nursing in both hospitals (Medical and Eden) has been very good, The
sisters and the matrons have done their work admirably."
79. Dr. Harvey, in medical charge of the Eden Hospital, says: "I have
to continue to speak in the highest terms of the excellent services rendered by
the sisters and the Canning nurses. The pupil-nurses also were better than
ever before, and the discipline has improved."
80. Dr. Cleghorn, the Officiating Surgeon-Superintendent of the Presi-
dency General Hospital, reports: "The nursing has, on the whole, been very
satisfactory and the thanks of Government are, I think, due to the sisters for
their supervision of the nurses and their careful attention to the wants of the
sick."
81. I may justly add the whole medical staff at the Medical College and
Presidency General Hospitals, one and all, and deservedly so, speak in the
highest terms of the present system of nursing and its efficiency, under the
superintendence of the Ladies of the Clewer Sisterhood.
STATEMENT No. IX.
Account of Invested Capital for the year 1885.
Balance
on 1st
January.
Invested
during the
year.
Total. Securities
sold.
Deposits
withdrawn.
Balance
on 31st
December.
Rs.
Rs.
Rs.
Rs.
Rs.
Rs.
Medical College Hospital
1,13,900
1,13.900
1,13,900
Choonee Lall Seal's Dispensary
50,000
50,000
50,000
Presidency General Hospital
Mayo Hospital
3,47,400
3,47,400
3,47,400
Campbell Hospital
Police Hospital
..
Howrah General Hospital
42,000
1,000
43,000
4 3 , 0 0 0
Voluntary Lock-Hospitals
Total
5,53,300
1,000
5,54,300
5,54,300
82. Finance .—The invested capital exists in the fund held by the Medical
College, Mayo and Howrah Hospitals. Rupees 1,000 were invested on behalf of
the Howrah Hospital during the year under report. There remained at the end
of the year a total invested capital of Rs. 5,54,300.