CALCUTTA MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.
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25. There were 41 cases of cholera treated in the Presidency
General Hospital in the year, of whom 24 died—figures, though much in excess
of 1885, are very nearly similar to those recorded in 1884. In regard to the
quantity of the disease met with in this hospital, I cannot do better than
quote here what Dr. Birch has to say on the-subject. He writes :—" I am sorry
to say there have been one or two cases of patients who were admitted for
other diseases having been attacked with cholera while in hospital. I cannot
quite give the actual details, for want of records, but one such patient had been
9 days under treatment for pneumonia, when cholera supervened. It will be
recollected that such occurrences were in former years frequent, and that for
three years prior to my departure on furlough there had been a complete
absence of such outbreaks. I attributed this immunity to a pure water-supply,
to pure milk obtained in the compound under supervision, and to the use of
European butter. It is, to say the least of it, remarkable that during the
past year the butter-supply having been again obtained from the bazar, cases
again occur in the wards; nor has the supervision with regard to milk been as
strict as formerly."
26 Whenever cholera is prevalent in an epidemic form in the south
of the town, patients are occasionally attacked with the disease in the wards of
this hospital. This has fairly puzzled each successive Surgeon-Superintendent
for many years past; and if Dr. Birch has now succeeded in solving the riddle,
every credit will be due to him. A much-needed improvement in this institu
- t i o n i s a c o m p l e t e r e n e w a l o f i t s f l o o r i n g t h r o u g h o u t t h e t h r e e b u i l d i n g s .
The whole should be laid with polished marble, as in the Eden Hospital.
Other improvements are also necessary, and will be brought to the notice
of Government when funds are available.
STATEMENT VI.
Campbell
Hospital.
Medical
Col l ege Hospi t al .
Howrah
Hospital.
Mayo
Hospital.
Police
Hospital.
Total.
True native deaths, excluding cholera ...
...
...
1,310
330
199
172
23
2,034
Moribund persons, excluding cholera ...
...
...
...
200
4 6
41
47
1
335
Difference
...
1,110
284
158
125
22
1 , 6 9 9
True death-rate per mille, excluding cholera and mori-
builds.
162.06
105.4
225.07
5 1 . 1
9 . 2
112.7
27.
Moribund persons.— The true death-rate of native patients, excluding
cholera and moribunds, declined in all the institutions, with the exception of
the Medical College Hospital. There were 335 moribunds admitted in 1866
against 456 in 1885. At the Medical College the true death-rate was 105.4
agai ns t 73. 9; at t he Campbel l Hos pi t al 162. 06 agai ns t 169. 4; at t he Howr ah
225.07 against 289.6; at the Mayo 51.1 against 67.2, while at the Police
Hospital the rate was 9.2 against 10.7 in 1885 . The disturbing factors, as I
have shown in previous reports in comparing these death-rates, are the large
number of cases in articulo mortis received into the hospitals.
28. Venereal diseases.— The following statement gives the total number of
cases of all classes of venereal diseases treated, both as in and out-door patients,
in the two Voluntary Lock Hospitals in 1886 :—
REMAINED ON 31ST DECEMBER 1885
ADMITTED DURING 1886.
TOTAL.
In-door.
Out-door.
Total.
In-door. Out-door.
Total.
In-door. Out-door.
Total.
Sealdah Europeans
Natives ...
4
......
4
38
. . . . . .
38
42
......
42
7
. . . . . .
7
40
3 8
78
47
38
85
Total
...
11
. . . . .
11
78
38
116
89
38
127
Alipore Europeans ..
Natives ....
......
....
.....
..........
.....
....
....
.....
105
41
146
290
1,550
1,840
395
1,591
1,986
Total
...
105
4
146
290
1,550
1,840
395
1,591
1, 986
GRAND TOTAL
...
116
41
157
368
1,588
1,956
484
1,629
2,113