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MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL.
[Part III.
on the register, and the consequently increased proportion of those unrecognized; but the
returns of the several institutions afford, in part at least, a more satisfactory interpretation of
the fact, and leave no doubt that it is mainly imported disease that has increased. Indeed, the
Chandney Hospital returns an increase of imported primary syphilis which alone goes far
towards explaining the total rise. In 1872 that hospital returned only 207 imported cases of
primary syphilis and 200 indigenous; in 1873 there were 86 indigenous cases and 524
contracted out of the limits of the Act. Taking, for the sake of just comparison, only those
institutions in which the locality of infection has been recorded, we arrive at the following
statement:—
Table VII.
Medical College ...
Sukea's Street ...
Alipore ...
General Hospital ...
Pauper Hospital ...
Chitpore ...
Chandney
...
Park Street
...
Total
...
Calcutta and Suburbs ...
Elsewhere ...
Calcutta and Suburbs ...
Elsewhere ...
Calcutta and Suburbs ...
Elsewhere ...
Calcutta and Suburbs ...
Elsewhere ...
Calcutta and Suburbs ...
Elsewhere ...
Calcutta and Suburbs ...
.
Elsewhere ...
Calcutta and Suburbs ...
Elsewhere ...
Calcutta and Suburbs ...
Elsewhere ...
Calcutta and Suburbs ...
.
Elsewhere ...
1871.
1,270
764
360
107
16
1
90
41
93
78
280
334
...
...
...
...
2,109
1,325
1872.
1,060
699
405
94
18
...
120
20
90
130
267
227
560*
998
398*
...
1,960
1,170
1873.
966
984
437
65
6
45
103
52
180
103
212
242
281*
1,244
304*
37
1,904
1,491*
* Excluded from total.
Finances.
The expenditure incurred on account of the Calcutta medical institutions,
and the share which Government contributed to their support, is shown in the
following statement:—
STATEMENT No. XIV.
Native Hospital and Dispensaries ... ...
Medical College Hospital ... ... ...
General Hospital... ... ... ...
Municipal Pauper Hospital
...
...
...
Police Chowkeedar „ ... ... ...
Sukea's Street Dispensary ... ... ...
North Suburban Hospital ... ... ...
Bhowanipore Dispensary
...
...
...
Aliporé ... ... ... ...
Garden Reach ...
...
...
...
Howrah Hospital... ... ... ...
Paid by Government.
Rs.
26,102
1,12,592
1,10,021
A.
3
3
0
P.
0
10
0
......
......
5,492
1,812
2,619
2,955
2
6
5
3
2
9
6
3
......
6,186 9 9
Other sources.
Rs.
18,721
7,184
11,398
47,687
20,854
A.
2
8
0
6
3
P.
4( 1 )
8( 2 )
2
11( 3 )
10 ( 3 )
......
6,343
1,615
394
1,100
31,033
0
9
8
0
4
0( 4 )
6( 4 )
0( 5 )
0( 5 )
2
TOTAL.
Rs.
44,823
1,19,776
1,21,419
47,687
20,854
5,492
8,155
4,234
3,349
1,100
37,219
A.
5
12
0
6
3
2
6
15
11
0
13
P.
4
6
2
11
10
2
9
0
3
0
11
(1) Subscriptions, donations, interest on invested fund, and municipal fund, &c.
(2) Subscriptions, donations, interest and paying-patients, &c.
(3) Municipal fund.
(4) Local and municipal funds, subscriptions, donations and interest of invested fund.
(5) Subscription and donation.
Public health of
Calcutta and
Suburbs.
According to the hospital statistics, it would seem that the last half of the
past year was the sickliest, but that the cold weather months had the greatest
number of deaths; and, speaking generally, the municipal register bears out
these results. February, March and April were the most fatal months as regards
cholera. Taking the whole population into account, the municipal returns
show a death-rate of 23.4 per thousand, compared with 26.4 in the previous
year.
MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL.
Hospital Staff.
The Principal of the College, Surgeon-Major N. Chevers, M. D., furnished
the report. Dr. Chevers returned from leave to Europe, and resumed charge
on December 2nd from Dr. D. B. Smith who officiated for him. The institu-
tion was deprived of two members of its staff during the year Surgeon-Major
J. Purefoy Colles, M. D., and Surgeon-Major H. C. Cutcliffe, F. R. C. S., who
died, the former in February and the latter in October. The Surgeon-General
and Lieutenant-Governor record their sense of the loss which the hospital and
the public has sustained by the deaths of these two devoted and excellent
surgeons.