CALCUTTA MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.
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seamen's stay in port longer than it otherwise would be it is difficult to deter-
mine." The death-rate among the European in-patients was less as compared
with the figures of 1884, 1882, and 1881, while it was higher than that of
1883.
169. Among natives the death-rate was less than in the previous year,
while it was higher than those of 1881, 1882 and 1883. Of the 300 deaths, 79
occurred in the first 24 hours after admission, and only 99 deaths occurred among
patients who had been in the hospital over ten days. The greater number
of deaths among natives (moribind) was due to bowel-complaints and cholera.
170. About the drainage and conservancy arrangements Dr. Pilcher says:—
"The system adopted is that the hospital servants collect, and the munici-
pal servants remove whatever requires removal, both in regard to the latrines
and the reservoirs of refuse water. The work was fairly well done in
all respects." Water-supply for drinking and cooking purposes is obtained
from Calcutta. For washing and cleaning, water was used from one of the
reserved tanks on the maidan. It was not filtered. Buildings are in a
thorough state of repairs.
CALCUTTA VOLUNTARY LOCK HOSPITALS.
171. Surgeon-Major S. C. Mackenzie, M.D., was in charge of these institu--
tions throughout the year.
172. There were treated 414 in-patients in the hospitals during 1885,
against 333 in 1884, showing an increase of 81. The daily average number of
patients treated was 90. against 61.7 in 1884. This shews that each patient
on the average continued in the hospital 79 days in 1885 and 68 days in 1884.
Of the total number of in-door cases, 48 were Europeans and 366 natives.
Ninety-three patients, viz., 48 Europeans and 45 natives, were treated in the
Sealdah Lock Hospital, against 111, or 38 Europeans and 73 natives, in the
previous year. Three hundred and twenty-one patients (natives) were treated
in the Alipore Lock Hospital, against 222 in 1884. The total number of admis--
sions was 342, of which 100 were received on transfer from the Campbell
Hospital. The corresponding numbers in 1884 were 279 and 75. There
were 18 deaths among the native in-door patients, or a rate of 4.9 per cent.
on total cases treated, against 21 and 6.3 per cent. in the preceding year.
There were treated in the hospitals 1,889 out-door patients (all natives),
against 1,454 (of which four were Europeans) in 1884, the daily average
number being 6.5 and 5.9 respectively. Of the total number of out-door
cases, 39 (natives) were treated in the Sealdah Lock Hospital, against 50, viz.,
4 Europeans and 46 natives, in 1884. One thousand eight hundred and fifty
patients (natives) were treated in the Alipore Lock Hospital, against 1,404 in
the preceding year.
173. There were 301 inter-current affections treated in the hospitals among
in-door patients during 1885, against 180 in 1884. The principal inter-current
diseases were dysentery, malarious fever, rheumatism, diarrhœa, splenitis and
phthisis, all of which, Dr. Mackenzie states, occurred in the persons of those
much debilitated by the effects of venereal disease. No cases of cholera
occurred in the hospitals during the year 1885.
I have the honour to be,
SIR,
Your most obedient servant,
A. J. COWIE,
Inspector- General of Civil Hospitals, Bengal.