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REPORT ON THE
probably fever in some form abounded as usual, fatal consequences were less
frequent. There was a considerable increase in the number of cases admitted
to hospital. with a death-rate reduced from 90.7 in 1882 to 77.8.
STATEMENT No. I.
Showing numbers treated in the institutions.
MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.
1883.
1882.
TOTAL TREATED.
Died
per mille
of treated.
TOTAL TREATED.
Died
per mille
of treated.
In-door. Out-door.
Total.
In-door. Out-door. Total.
Medical college hospital
... ...
5,541
51,022
56,563
1 1 2 . 0 8 *
5,448
39,329
44,777
123. 5
...
General hospital...
3 , 1 2 1
. . . . . .
3,121
47.7
3,295
. . . . . . . .
3,295
44.91
Mayo hospital and dispensaries ...
2,212
176,619
178,831
164.5
2,125
182,163
184,288
173.64
Campbell hospital
... ...
5,499
......
5,499
234.04
5 , 6 6 9 ......
5,669
247.83
Municipal police hospital ... ...
2,377
......
2,377
1 1 . 7
2,438
......
2,438
13.53
Total Calcutta hospitals ...
18,750
-
227,641
246,391
131.13
18,975
-
221,492
240,467
1 3 8 . 8 9 *
Howrah general hospital ... ...
1,631
11,696
13,327
200.4
1,604
11,012
12,616
1 9 9 . 5
GRAND TOTAL ...
20,381
239,337
259,718
136.83 -20,579
232,504
253,083
143.73
* Reckoned on the cases treated exclusive of ophthalmic cases.
3. Numbers treated in hospital. ― The total number of persons treated in
1883 was nearly the same as that of 1882. The differences in the several hos-
pitals were too small to require remark, whether they be considered in this
summary method or distributed over the several diseases to which the figures
relate. Nor has the addition of about 7,000 out-patients in 1883 to the figures
of the previous year any more particular meaning. It merely adds to the pro-
bability presented generally by the records of town and hospitals that lighter
illnesses were as common as usual in the year under review, and fatality alone
diminished. Out-door practice was reduced at the Mayo hospital and the
Chandni dispensary ; at the latter most largely. Reduction at the Mayo hos-
pital is ascribed to the working of the Marwaree dispensary in burra bazar.
No explanation is suggested of that at the Chandni dispensary, though there
was a difference of 5,266 patients. I would invite attention to the remarks
made in paragraph 95 of the last report regarding the figures returned from this
dispensary in 1882. Comparison of records for the last five years shows that
out-patients were returned in steadily growing numbers at the Chandni dis-
pensary from 1879 to 1882. The growth was suddenly checked, and a great
fall took place in 1883 ; nothing resembling this occurred at either of the other
dispensaries or at the medical college.
4. Of the 51,022 out-patients treated at the medical college hospital,
17,233 were treated in the medical dispensary, 11,319 in the surgical,
6,910 in the ophthalmic, and 1,776 in the dental department. There
were 13,784 persons treated as out-patients in the duty-room, who arrived
after dispensary hours. Some reduction of minor surgical practice is ascribed
by the Principal to frequent but unavoidable changes in the staff.
5. The daily average numbers of patients under treatment in 1883 were as
follows :—
In-door.
Out-door.
Medical college
...
. . .
. . .
289.35
2 9 2 . 5 5
General hospital
...
. . .
...
148.6
......
Mayo hospital
...
. . .
...
92
1,222.39
Campbell hospital
...
. . .
...
339.1
......
Police hospital
...
. . .
. . . 87.02
. . . . . .
Howrah general hospital
. . .
. . .
60.14
1 0 2 . 8
There is nothing here which calls for remark.