MUNICIPAL DEPARTMENT.
MEDICAL.
DARJEELING, THE 14TH JUNE 1895.
RESOLUTION—No. 167T.—M.
READ—
The Report on the Calcutta Medical Institutions for the year 1894.
Read als
o—
The Report for the year 1893, and the Resolution recorded upon it.
According to the statistics of mortality during 1894, given in the report,
the Calcutta death-rate of 30 per thousand was the highest recorded during the
last ten years, and that of Howrah, 25·95, the highest for the last nine years,
while in the Suburban area, which was amalgamated with Calcutta in 1888,
the death-rate rose to 39, or 1·9 higher than in 1893. In all three areas the
mortality from the chief diseases shows an increase. The deaths from cholera
were nearly doubled; the mortality from bowel-complaints increased 11·83
per cent., deaths from fever 11·53 per cent., and from small-pox 966·66 per cent.
The increase in the number of deaths from small-pox was very marked, being
416, against 39 in 1893. The disease spread rapidly since the close of the year
under review, and it is doubtful whether it can as yet be said to show signs
of abating. Putting aside small-pox, the initial causation of which is obscure,
and cholera, which is usually more prevalent in dry years, it seems at first
sight surprising that fevers and bowel-complaints, the characteristic diseases
of a damp season, should show so marked an increase in a year of deficient
rainfall. This can hardly be due to greater accuracy in registration, for there
is no reason to suppose that the record of deaths in the metropolitan area is
defective to anything like the extent of the increased mortality reported as
due to these two causes. The reason doubtless is, as is explained at greater
length below, that diseases do not come in and go out with the year, and that a
large proportion of the deaths registered in the early part of 1894 were due to
causes which began to operate in 1893.
2. The following table gives the number of indoor and outdoor patients
treated in the several hospitals of Calcutta and Howrah during the past two
years:—
O F N S T I T U T I O N .
1 8 9 3 .
1 8 9 4 .
I N D O O R .
OUTDOOR.
T o t a l n u m b e r o f p a t i e n t s , b o t h i n d o o r a n d o u t - d o o r .
T o t a l n u m b e r o f d e a t h s a m o n g i n d o o r p a t i e n t s .
P e r c e n t a g e o f d e a t h s o n t o t a l n u m b e r o f i n d o o r p a t i e n t s t r e a t e d .
I N D O O R .
O U T D O O R .
T o t a l n u m b e r o f p a t i e n t s t r e a t e d , b o t h i n d o o r a n d o u t d o o r . T o t a l n u m b e r o f d e a t h s a m o n g i n d o o r p a t i e n t s .
P e r c e n t a g e o f d e a t h s a m o n g t o t a l n u m b e r o f i n d o o r p a t i e n t s .
N u m b e r t r e a t e d .
D a i l y a v e r a g e .
N u m b e r o f b e d s a v a i l a b l e .
N u m b e r t r e a t e d .
D a i l y a v e r a g e .
N u m b e r t r e a t e d .
D a i l y a v e r a g e .
N u m b e r o f b e d s a v a i l a b l e .
N u m b e r t r e a t e d .
D a i l y a v e r a g e .
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
1 1
12
13
14
15
16
17
College Hospital 7,025 394.51 449 54,091
389.04
6 1 , 1 1 6 737 11.38 7,044 362.11
449 57,906 421.17
6 4 , 9 5 0 666 10.26
dency General Hos-
3,063 163.01 238
. . . . . .
. . . . . . 3,063
134 4.37 3,031
178.10
238
303
7.48
3,334
146 4.81
bell Hospital
9 , 3 8 4 497.07 588 22,566 188.55 31,950 1,797 19.14 8,440 482.73
588 25,176 181.13 33,616 2,066 23.70
,,
2,406 1 0 0 .
175
. . . . . .
. . . . . . 2,406
25 1.03 2,305
85.55
175
. . . . . .
. . . . . . 2,305
24 1.04
,,
1,870
85.6 105 29,742
1 8 9 . 7 31,612
177 9.46 1,856
84.2
105 29,974
1 9 1 . 9
31,830
214 11.53
, ,
433
15.16 12 44,355 313.23 44,788
14 3.23
338
12.20
12 44,762 302.98
45,100
13 3.84
Street Dispensary
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . 29,149 175.6
29,149......
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . . . . 31,977 200.7
31,977
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
,,
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . 23,383 165.
33,383......
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . . . . 23,403 156.6
23,403
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
Street ,,
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . 19,390 158.37 19,390
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
19,686 157.93 19,686
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
Victoria Hos-pital
155
9.85 22
8,758
65.09
8,913
6 3.87
304
17.94
36
9,035
66.29
9,339
4 1.31
Manipur Dispensary
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . 10,287
90.75 10,287
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
10,706
98.75 10,706
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
Total
24,336 1,265.20 1,589 241,721 1,735.33 266,057 2,890 12.14 23,318 1,222.83 1,603 252,928 1,784.93 276,246 3,073 13.49
General Hos-pital
1,722
73.18 108 10,338
90.59
12,060
397 23.05 1,594
58.53
108 11,113
86.44
12,707
359 22.52
GRAND TOTAL 26,058 1,338.38 1,697 252,059 1,825.92 278,117 3,287 12.88 24,912 1,281.36 1,711 264,041 1,871.37 288,953 3,432 1 4 . 0 8