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CALCUTTA MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.
Hospitals the falling off is due to fewer ships having visited the port, from the
crews of which many of the in-door patients are derived.
6. The general death-rate among all the patients treated in the hospitals
of Calcutta was 124.15 per mille, against 126.13 in the previous year.
STATEMENT NO. II.
Race and sex of out-door and in-door patients.
Total for
1889.
Male.
Female.
Children.
Total for
1890.
Europeans
...
9,424
5,463
1,670
1,597
8,730
Eurasians
...
23,491
9,612
6,425
9,720
25 757
Mahomedans ...
75,147
43,672
7,811
23,128
74,611
Hindus
...
1 1 6 , 9 7 2
82,362
15,495
17,778
115,635
Other races ...
7,133
2,613
1,616
3,473
7,702
Total
...
232,167
143,722
33,017
55,696
232,435
7. The total figures in this table show little divergence from those of
the previous year, but as regards certain classes it may be noted that a greater
number of Eurasian men, women, and children sought relief at the hospitals
than previously—a circumstance which may probably be accounted for by the
increasing numbers and poverty of this class of the community. The diminution
in the number of European patients may be attributed in some measure to
fewer seamen having visited the port. The falling off in the attendance of both
Hindu and Mahomedan patients is difficult to explain. The increasing
attendance of these two classes at the Dufferin Hospital cannot be the sole
cause of the diminution at the Calcutta institutions, because it is more percep-
tible among the male patients than among the women and children. It is not
improbable that the solution may be found in the large amount of gratuitous
medical relief which is obtainable at the numerous druggists' shops and private
dispensaries throughout the town.
STATEMENT NO. III.
Deaths in Calcutta Hospitals in 1890 and ten previous years .
ALL DISEASES EXCEPT
CASES TREATED IN
THE EYE INFIRMARY.
CHOLERA.
Death-rate
per mille,
excluding
cholera.
Number of
deaths
registered
by the
municipal-
ity.
Rate per
mille of
population.
Treated. Died.
Died
per
mille.
Treated. Died.
Died
per
mille.
1880 ...
... 21,032 2,906
138
356
183
514
131
11,681
27.1
1881 ...
... 20,156 2,876
142
589
304
516
131
13,030
30.
1882 ...
... 20,078
2,886
143
859
468
544
125
13,177
30.4
1883 ...
... 19,872 2,719
136
932
510
547
116
12,325
28.4
1884 ...
... 20,833
3,058
146 1,023
536
523
127
1.3,256
30.5
1885 ...
... 22,925
2,918
127
627
362
577
114
12,707
29.3
1886 ...
... 23,174 2,733
117
781
424
542
103
11,447
26.4
1887
. . . ... 21,918 2,591 118 612 341 557
105
10,979
25.3
1888 ...
... 22,167 2,750
124
905
521
575
104
11,685
26.97
1889 ...
... 23,721
2,992
126
795
419
527
112
11,682
26.9
1890 ...
... 23,760
2,950
124
528
291
551
114
12,382
28.5
8. The death-rate among all the patients treated at the hospitals has
already been shown to be 124 per mille, but if deaths from cholera be omitted, the
rate falls to 114 per mille. In short, although cholera was less prevalent in 1890,
the rate of mortality from the disease in no way diminished, but rather increased.
Of 528 cases of cholera treated at all the hospitals, 291 died, or at the rate of
551 per mille, compared with 527 in 1889. The smaller number of cholera
cases treated in the hospitals accords with the diminished prevalence of the
disease among the general population.