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CALCUTTA MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.
others, it demands the most anxious attention and concern of the medical officers
of the institution, both in regard to the sufferers themselves and in the sanitary
surroundings of all patients in the maternity and other departments. His
Honour the Lieutenant-Governor at a recent visit suggested the best means of
treating cases of septicæmia in isolating them in a separate ward on admission,
and this suggestion has taken practical shape in the selection of a site and the
preparation of plan for a suitable building near the Eden Hospital.
42. The major operations performed at the Eden Hospital were 365, or 129
more than in 1891. Here, again, the increase of the past year was in some
measure due to the alterations in the classification of operations, though a larger
number of operations were performed. The more important were—
Ovariotomy
. . .
. . .
... in 8 cases.
Abdominal sections
...
...
... „ 14 „
Cæsarian section
...
. . .
...
„ 1 case.
Delivery after turning
... ...
... „ 23 cases.
Do. by forceps
. . .
...
... „ 67 „
Removal of placenta
... ... ...
„
1 6
„
Craniotomy
... ...
...
„
1 case.
Recto-vaginal fistula
... ...
... „ 13 cases.
Vesico-vaginal do.
...
... ...
,,
9 ,,
The results of operative work are not quite so successful as in 1891, but the
foregoing list shows the excellent work which is being done in this hospital.
43. Dr. Joubert alludes again to some defects in the mode of distributing
the diets, and also in the means of procuring hot water at all hours of the day
and night, and these will form the subject of further reference to the Principal
of the Medical College.
44. The out-patients' department of the Eden Hospital has more than
exceeded expectation. No fewer than 3,917 women and children were treated
during 1892.
45. Ophthalmic practice was conducted in the new Shama Churn Law Eye
Hospital. There were in all 12,381 out-patients, as compared with 11,389 in
1891, showing that the hospital more than maintains its popularity. The
in-patients admitted were 501, or nearly the same as in 1891.
The principal operations performed were—
Extraction of lens
...
...
...
... 298
Iridectomy
...
. . .
... ...
34
Excision of eye-ball ...
. . .
. . .
...
7
and the success attending the operation for cataract is reported to have been
61 per cent. of those operated upon.
46. In the case of this hospital, also, much good work has been done and
specially acceptable relief afforded.
47. Ezra Hospital was opened on the 12th March 1888, and, as a rule, no
persons are admitted to it except Jews, but in the out-patients' department
a few persons of other classes were relieved in 1892.
48. Of out-door patients there were 1,555 in comparison with 2,279 in 1891.
There is no special cause assigned for this diminution, and it was most likely the
result of a more healthy year. The daily average attendance was 10.6, against
12.63 in 1891. The in-patients were 350, and in 1891 342. The daily average
number of beds-occupied was 16.91, and there were only 5 deaths in the year.
Thirty-two major and 83 minor operations were performed, and, generally
speaking, the institution appears to have fulfilled the object of its founders.
49. Nursing.—This must always be an essential department of all hospitals,
but in India the success of treatment mainly depends on the intelligence and
watchfulness of the nurse responsible for the carrying out of the various details of
treatment in the matter of food, medicine, and personal comfort of the sick.
The individual reports of all the hospitals, at which nurses connected with the
Calcutta Hospital Nurses Institution are employed, go to show the competence
of the nurses and the thorough oversight which they receive from the Clewer
Sisters.
50. At the Howrah General Hospital there are now two trained European
nurses, but unconnected with the Nursing Institution. Here also the nursing is
reported to have been efficiently done.
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