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REPORT ON THE
causes the town mortality almost reached the exceptional figures of the pre-
ceding year.
STATEMENT No. I.
Showing numbers treated in the institutions.
MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.
1882.
1881.
TOTAL TREATED.
Died
per
m i l l e
of
treated.
TOTAL TREATED.
Died
per mille
of
treated.
In-door.
Out-door.
Total.
In-door.
O u t - d o o r
Total.
Medical College Hospital
5,448
39,329
44,777
123.5
5,381
59,085
64,466
129.89
General Hospital
3,295
. . . . . .
3,295
44.91
2,863
. . . . . .
2,863
47.85
Mayo Hospital and Dispensaries
2,125
1,82,163
1,84,288
173.64
2,125
1,83,354
1,85,479
153.87
Campbell Hospital
5,669
. . . . . .
5,669
247.83
6,074
. . . . . .
6,074
237.4
Municipal Police Hospital
2,438
......
2,438
13.53
2,681
. . . . . .
2,681
13.05
Total Calcutta Hospitals
18,975
2,21,492
2,40,467
138.89*
19,124
2,42,439
2,61,563
138.31
Howrah General Hospital
1,604
11,012
12,616
199.5
1,640
12,511
14,151
192.07
GRAND TOTAL
20,579
2,32,504
2,53,083
143.73
20,764
2,54,950
2,75,714
142.68
* Reckoned on the cases treated, exclusive of those of the Eye Infirmary.
3. Numbers treated in hospital .—The total number of house-patients was
nearly the same in the two years, viz., 20,764 in 1881 and 20,579 in 1882.
At the Medical College and General Hospitals numbers rose. At the Campbell,
Howrah, and Police Hospitals they fell. The fall at the Campbell Hospital,
though not large, is remarkable, as during part of the previous year repair of
the building had narrowed the accommodation and reduced admissions. Dr.
Nicholson ascribes the fall to decreased prevalence of fever and dysentery.
There was some reduction of admission from fever, but very little difference
in the aggregate numbers of dysentery and diarrhœa, while the fatality of
the first and last of the three disorders was greater in 1882, pointing to more
severe illness and longer detention in hospital than before, as contributing to
lessened admissions. It is worthy of note also, with regard to the Campbell
Hospital, that of late years mean daily numbers have borne a larger propor-
tion than they formerly bore to numbers admitted, which points in the same
direction. The number of house-patients treated at the Mayo Hospital during
the year was the same as in the previous year.
4. There was a large fall in the recorded numbers of out-door patients
treated in 1882. This was especially marked at the Medical College, though
the reduction was considerable at Howrah. The Principal of the college shows
that reduction there was only apparent. An erroneous method of entering
cases as new which were not new was corrected in 1881. The correction
reduced the figure of 1882 by upwards of 15,000. Further, up to September
1881, there had been an objectionable practice of treating in private rooms as
out-patients persons who had no right to hospital treatment. This was stopped
but not until it had added 4,198 cases to the records of 1881. The entire
reduction in the returns therefore shows no diminution in the out-patient
practice of the hospital in 1882, although, for the greater comfort of female
patients, the week was divided into days of exclusive attendance for each sex,
and one private room only was kept open for persons who wanted out-door
treatment on Sundays. The total number of new cases properly so considered
among the out-patients of 1882 was 31,537.
In the surgical dispensary 13,865 cases were treated in 1882. The
number in 1881 was 11,144. In the medical dispensary 15,854 were treated
against 15,219 in 1881. Of dental cases 1,818 were treated against 1,666.
5. The fall in attendance at the Howrah Hospital is ascribed to greater
healthiness of season. The attendance of out-patients in the Mayo Hospital
and its dependencies showed a decrease of 1,191 on that of 1881.
6. The daily average numbers of patients under treatment in 1882 were
as follows:—
In-door.
Out-door.
Medical College
282.3
295.4
General Hospital
151.0
......
Mayo Hospital
82.7
1214.7
Campbell Hospital
350.6
......
Police Hospital
83.3
......
Howrah General Hospital
65.7
96.2