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REPORT ON THE CALCUTTA MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.
STATEMENT NO. IV.
Deaths of men, women, and children in 1888, 1889 and 1890.
1888.
1889.
MEN.
WOMEN.
CHILDREN.
MEN.
WOMEN.
T r e a t e d .
D i e d .
D e a t h - r a t e p e r
m i l l e .
T r e a t e d .
D i e d .
D e a t h - r a t e p e r
m i l l e .
Male.
Female.
T r e a t e d .
D i e d .
D e a t h - r a t e p e r
mi l l e .
T r e a t e d .
D i e d .
D e a t h - r a t e p e r
m i l l e .
Tr eat ed.
Di ed.
Deat h- r at e
per mi l l e.
Treat ed.
D i e d .
D e a t h - r a t e
p e r m i l l e .
Medical College
Hospital ... 3,430*384 114.86 2,120* 134 63.20 298* 29 97.31 346* 40 115.6
3,745* 341 91.05
2,318* 137 59.10
General Hospital 2,279 87
38.17
399 14
35.08 129 4 31. 161 6 37.26 2,498
84 33.62
373 23 61.66
Mayo Institu-
tions ... ... 2,475 230 92.92 252 30 119.04 81 11 135.80 25 5 200.
1,931 243 125.84
217 31 142.85
Campbell Hospi-
tal ... ... 4,911 994 282.40 1,358 374 275.40 127 18 141.73 101 17 168.31
6,122 1,174 191.76
1,657 447 269.76
Police Hospital ... 2,735 30
10.96 ...
. . . ...... ...
. . . ...... ...
. . . ......
2,432
20 8.22
. . . . . .
. . . ......
Howrah General
Hospital ... 1,159 260 224.33 185 66 356.75 27 12 44.44 14 5 357.14 1,281 260 202.96
183 56 306.01
Bhowanipore Dis-
pensary ...
...
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......
. . .
... ......
... ... ......
. . . ... ......
......
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... ......
1889—continued.
1890.
CHILDREN.
MEN.
WOMEN.
CHILDREN.
Male.
Female.
T r e a t e d .
D i e d .
De a t h - r a t e p e r
mille.
T r e a t e d .
D i e d .
D e a t h - r a t e p e r
m i l l e .
Male.
Female.
T r e a t e d .
D i e d .
Death-rate
per mille.
T r e a t e d .
Di ed.
Deat h-rat e
per mi l l e.
Tr eat ed.
Died.
Deat h- r at e
per mi l l e.
Tr eat ed. D i e d .
Death-rate
per mille.
Medical College
Hospital ... 294* 27 91.83 308* 39 126.62 3,574* 369 103.24 2,535* 129 50.88 371* 28 75.47 261* 43 164.75
General Hospital 143
11 76.92 176
9 51.13 2,205
78 35.37
520 19 36.53 193 7 36.26 187 8 42.78
Mayo Institu-
tions ... ... 91
5 54.94
39
10 256.41 1,823 196 107.51
198 26 131.31 84 7 83.33 35 10 285.71
Campbell Hospi-
tal ... ... 239
27 112.97 234
35 149.57 6,085 1,150 188.08 1,858 498 268.03 273 29 106.22 199 31 155.77
Police Hospital ... ...
...
......
...
...
...... 2,593
21
8.09 ...
. . .
. . . . . .
... ... ......
...
. . . ......
Howrah General
Hospital ...
30
7 233.33
19
6 315.79 1,152 236 204.86 168 51 303.57 29 7 241.37 19 7 368.42
Bhewanipore Dis-
pensary ... ...
...
......
...
...
......
...
. . .
......
... ...
. . . . . .
... ... ......
...
. . .
......
* Inclusive of cases treated in the ophthalmic ward of the Medical College Hospital.
9.
As usual, the Campbell and Howrah Hospitals show a very high death-
rate, as they are the institutions which receive the largest number of moribund
patients afflicted with cholera, dysentery and diarrhœa and other fatal diseases
from all parts of Calcutta and Howrah. The death-rate at the former among
all classes was 202.97 per mille, against 203.95 in 1889, and at the latter 220.02
per mille, against 217.44 in 1889, figures which indicate a lamentable mortality,
but differ little from those of previous years, and it is to be feared that no
amelioration can be hoped for until improved sanitary measures are more
generally adopted in the localities from which the patients come.
10.
As regards the death-rate among the different classes of patients, there
is little difference to record at any of the hospitals, except in the Presidency General
Hospital, where the death-rate among the children was much less than in the
previous year, owing to the circumstance that there were fewer cases of diph-
theria under treatment. A noticeable feature of this return is the very high
death-rate among female children, and this may be attributed partly to the
fact that fewer girls as compared with boys are taken to the hospital for treat-
ment but I doubt if this accounts completely for the great difference there is
in the death-rate of the two classes.
11.
The following statement shows the diseases treated at the different
hospitals.