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REPORT ON THE
Cholera was more fatal in Calcutta during 1896 than in the previous year,
having caused 3,449 deaths, as against 2,099. Howrah, on the other hand,
suffered less, as a result, the Civil Surgeon states, of the introduction of a filtered
water-supply in the month of February.
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N u m b e r s t r e a t e d . - O u t d o o r p a t i e n t s . -T
h e
t o t a l n u m b e r o f o u t - p a t i e n t s
treated at all the institutions was 258,794, as against 266,672 in 1895—a
decrease of 7,878. There was a reduction in their numbers of 163 at the
Presidency General Hospital, of 4,537 at the Campbell Hospital, of 892 at the
Park Street Dispensary, and of 768 at the Howrah General Hospital, generally
due to the comparative healthiness of the year. The numbers at the Chitpur
and Sukea's Street Dispensaries also fell off, but no cause is assigned. The
Bhawanipur Dispensary was closed during the year, and the out-patient attend-
ance was consequently less by 5,745, but it was replaced by the new South
Suburban Hospital, opened in August, where the deficiency was more than
covered, as in it, 7,332 out-patients were treated up to the 31st of December.
The Dufferin Victoria Hospital shows a falling off of 941 patients, explained as
due to its removal to another locality and to changes in the hospital staff.
The attendance of out-patients at the Medical College, Eden, Ezra and Eye
Hospitals was larger by 265, at the Mayo Hospital by 1,029 and at the
Chandney Hospital by 48.
4. In-door vatzents.-The total number of these tell oft, as inaicateci in
detail on the margin, by 1,232, the
figures showing 25,647 for 1896, as
against 26,879 in 1895, or a daily
average of 1,238.51, as compared with
1,303 .63. The comparative healthi-
ness of the year is the explanation
given of the decline at the Presidency
General, Medical College and Police
Hospitals ; at the Mayo Hospital
periodical fluctuation in attendance
is ascribed as the cause of the falling off, and at the Dufferin Victoria in-
patients were fewer for the same reasons as those given in the case of the
out-patients in the previous paragraph. In the new South Suburban Hospital at
Bhawanipur, 219 in-patients were treated with a daily average of 22.32—a
proof that the institution is meeting a public want, and that it is already
popular.
It was noticed in last year's report that cases under the head of "no
appreciable disease " in the returns from the Presidency General Hospital
appeared to be excessive. Their numbers have since been reduced from 233
to 29, by the exercise of more care in diagnosis.
5. The following table shows the numbers of men, women and children
treated as " out" and "in " patients at each institution, classifies them according
to race, nationality or religion, and gives the daily averages and ratios per
cent. for the three classes :-
NAMES OF THE
INSTITUTIONS.
TOTAL TREATED DURING THE
YEAR.
CLASS
DAILY ATTENDANCE.
A, B. C. D. \ E.
Aver age number r
Rat i o per cent , of-
M e n
W o m e n C h i l d r e n T o t a l
E u r o p e a n s
E u r a s i a n s M u h a m - m u d a n s
H i n d u s O t h e r c l a s e s
M e n
W o m e n
C h i l d r e n
T o t a l
M e n
W o m e n
C h i l d r e n T o t a l
1
1
2
3
2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 I16 17 18
Medical College In-door 3, 43
. 865 186 4, 485 387 1, 113 693 2, 069 223 188. 97 54. 39 4.93 248. 29 76. 11 21. 91 1 . 9 3
Hospital Proper Out-door 26, 984 5 . 0 7 8 3, 395 35, 457 2, 116 4, 359 10, 154 17, 843 985 189. 16 36. 95 17. 13 243.4 77. 77 15. 19
Total 30, 418 5, 943 3, 581 39, 942 2, 503 5, 472 10, 847 19, 912 1, 208 378. 13 91.34 22. 06 491. 53 76. 93 18. 58
Eden Hos- In-door
1, 298 347 1, 645 281 460 113 612 179
45. 17 16. 12 61. 29
7 3 . 7 0 7
7 2 6 . 5 9
Pa Pital O u t - d o o r
2, 510
5 , 9 2 2 8, 432 535 2, 372 2, 753 2, 297 475
7.71 19.01 26. 72
Total
3, 808 6, 269 10, 077 816 2, 832 2, 866 2, 909 654
52. 88 35. 13 88. 01
60. 09 6 9 .
Ezra Hos- In-door 89 78 38 205
205 7. 02 5.33 1.57 13. 92 50. 43 38. 29 '
P i t a l .
O u t - d o o r 528 412 671 1, 611
1, 611 3 .
3.1 4. 10.1 29. 70 30. 69 3 9 . 6 1
Total
617 490 709 1, 816
1, 816 10. 02 8.43 5.7 24. 02 41. 71 35. 10 2 3 . 7 2
Medical College Hospital
Presidency General Hospital
Campbell Hospital
Police
...
99
288
+22 780
Mayo
135
Chandney „
+22
Dufferin Victoria Hospital
-224
South Suburban „
+219
Howrah General ,,
+ 3 1
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