Part III. ] HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES IN THE BENGAL PRESIDENCY.
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STATEMENT No. IV.
PROVINCE.
Bengal
Percentages
N.-W. Provinces
Percentages
Punjab
Percentages
Central Provinces
Percentages
Oudh
Percentages
Rajputana ...
Percentages
British Burmah
Percentages
Hyderabad ...
Percentages
NUMBER OP INSTITUTIONS IN WHICH WERE TREATED.
IN-DOOR.
0—25.
25
18.4
10
9.62
7
7
5
10.63
2
6.90
6
18.76
1
6.66
25—50.
12
8.8
10
9.62
10
10
5
10.63
...
...
3
9.38
...
...
50—75.
17
12.5
6
5.72
5
6
6
12.78
1
3.45
1
3.12
1
6.66
75—100.
13
9.6
11
10.47
3
3
3
6.39
1
3.45
2
6.25
...
...
100—250.
43
31.6
36
34.30
33
33
14
29.79
7
24.13
9
28.12
10
66.66
250—500.
23
16.9
22
20.95
30
30
11
23.40
15
51.72
8
25
1
6.66
500—750.
1
.7
7
6.66
7
7
2
4.25
2
6.90
1
3.12
1
6.66
750—1,000.
1
.7
1
.95
2
2
...
...
1
3.45
1
3.12
...
...
Upwards of
1,000.
la
.7
2b
1.90
3c
3
1d
2.13
...
...
1e
3.12
1f
6.66
TOTAL.
136
—
105
—
100
—
47
—
29
—
32
—
15
—
OUT-DOOR
0—250.
1
.5
1
.68
...
...
...
...
...
...
3
6.52
1
6.66
250—500.
11
6.9
2
1.37
...
...
2
2.53
1
2.56
1
2.17
1
6.66
500—750.
6
3.2
6
4.11
2
1.67
1
1.26
2
5.13
1
2.17
2
13.33
750-1,000.
12
6.4
5
3.42
2
1.67
1
1.26
3
7.69
2
4.35
...
...
1,000—2,500.
79
42.
26
17.81
.8
6.67
33
41.77
6
15.39
14
30.43
5
33.33
2,500—5,000.
48
25.5
49
33.56
41
34.16
23
29.11
11
28.20
15
32.61
3
20.
5,000-7,500.
18
9.6
28
19.18
36
30
8
10.13
10
25.64
3
6.52
2
13.33
7,500—10,000.
8
4.2
15
10.27
13
10.83
5
6.33
6
15.39
3
6.52
1
6.66
Upwards of
10,000.
5*
2.7
14†
9.59
18‡
15.
6§
7.60
—
...
4||
8.69
...
...
TOTAL.
188
—
146
—
120
—
79
—
39
—
46
—
15
—
Information not available.
a.—
b.—
c.—
d.—
e.—
f.—
Dacca.
Agra and Benares.
Amritsur, Lahore Mayo Hospital, and Peshawur.
Hoshungabad.
.Jeypoor Jail Hospital.
Rangoon.
*
†
‡
§
||
Chuckdigee, Jehanabad, Dacca, Patna and Mozufferpore
Agra, Allahabad Colvin Dispensary, Bareilly, Benares, Bheeloo-
pore Chowk, Budaon, Dehra Dhoon, Goruckpore, Kussia,
Jounpore, Narghat, Moradabad, and Chundowaee.
Delhi, Amballa, Ludhiana, Jullundur, Amritsur, Amritsur City,
Gurdaspore, Sialkote, Lahore Mayo Hospital, Kasur, Feroze¬
pore, Rawulpindee, Gujrat, Dera Ismail Khan, Leiah, Dera
Gazi Khan, Bannu, and Peshawur.
Chanda, Rai Bahadur, Jabalpore City, Raipur, Burhampore,
Raipur Sadur Branch.
Roopbas, Kama, Weir, and Ajmere.
From this it will be seen that in Bengal 72.34 per cent. of the dispensaries
treated in-door patients. In the North-Western Provinces 71.91 per cent.;
in the Punjab 83.33 per cent.; in the Central Provinces 59.49; in Oudh
74.36; in Rajputana 69.56; and in British Burma 100 per cent.
Surgical operations.
Surgical operations.—The number of surgical operations, major and minor,
is shown in Table No. I. Further details will be found noted in the summaries
of the working of the dispensaries in each separate province; and a list of the
important operations performed in the larger medical institutions is appended.
Eye operations.
Operations for the restoration of sight show a desirable increase in number.
It is insisted that no class of operation is so much calculated to impress the
native mind with the evident superiority of English surgery as operations for
cataract, but this is questioned by the civil surgeon of Agra, and with some rea-
son. The native regards operations upon the eye as minor surgery ;he hears of our
cutting operation, and he has perhaps seen one case of failure with its shrunken
eye-ball and closed lids. This he contrasts with the ancient depression
operation, no visible wound, no pain during performance, and the certainty of
the restoration of some amount of vision, even if only temporarily. He does not,
nor can he, be expected to inquire into ultimate results. In the Calcutta Eye
Hospital, in the year 1874, there were only 144 operations for hard or mixed
cataract. This is the result of a whole year's work in an enormous city, in an
institution which has attained a reputation, and to which a specialist, so to
speak, is attached. When these facts are considered, it at once becomes intelli-
gible how it is that eye surgery has as yet made so little progress in the country.
Want of uniformity
in the classification
of operations.
Even still there is an unhappy want of uniformity in the classification of
operations in the North-Western Provinces, Rajputana, and the Central Pro-
vinces. Error has, however, been eliminated as far as possible, as will be seen
in the sequel. Instructions have been repeatedly issued on the subject by the
Medical Department, and it is hoped that, with care and attention, the returns
will in future represent absolutely uniform and correct results for all the
provinces alike.
Age, sex, and caste of
patients.
Statement No. V contains all the information which is available for
systematic tabulation regarding the proportions of the sexes and of children
attending as in-door and out-door patients in each province. In the province
of Bengal, the proportion of females and children was larger than in the
previous year, and the increase in the number of children has been steadily
maintained for three years in succession. The attendance of female patients
increased by 1.45 per cent. in the Central Provinces in 1873. The increase in
Hyderabad was also very satisfactory, so far as female attendance was concerned.
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