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REPORT ON THE
9. Particular diseases .—Small-pox —This disease, which prevailed in
Calcutta as an epidemic during the early part of the year 1895, shows a very
marked diminution, the numbers of deaths having fallen from 2,220 to 69.
The cases admitted to hospital fell from 771 to 57, all of which, with one
exception, where the patient was taken into the Medical College Hospital for
teaching purposes, were treated in the special-wards of the Campbell Hospital.
The different types of the disease recognized and the mortality among the
cases treated in the latter are noted
in the margin. Of these 56 cases, 36,
or 64.28 per cent., were unprotected
of whom 11 died—a mortality of 30.55
per cent. Four had been inoculated,
of whom one died—a mortality
of 25 per cent., and 16 are said
to have been. vaccinated, amongst
whom there was one death only, or
a mortality of 6.25.
10. Cholera —Was much more prevalent in the city of Calcutta in 1896
than during previous year, and admissions to hospital, which had been 567 in
1894 and 600 in 1895, rose to 1,007, of whom 54 were Europeans and Eura-
sians. The total number of deaths among the patients was 566, or 56.20 per
cent.—a somewhat smaller fatality than in 1895, when it was 58.16.
The death-rate amongst Europeans and Eurasians was 55.55 per cent.,
and amongst all others was 56.24 per cent. Of the 54 Europeans and
Eurasians, 24 were treated in the Medical College Hospital, 20 in the Presidency
General Hospital, and 10 in the Howrah Hospital. The rates of mortality
amongst them -were 45.83, 80 and 30 per cent. respectively. At the Presidency
General Hospital, where it was greatest, the cases were of severe type, especially
among seamen, and in 16 out of 20 cases treated the result was fatal.
Of the 953 cases of cholera seen amongst other than Europeans and
Eurasians, the Campbell Hospital received 396, of whom 244 died—a mor
- t a l i t y o f 6 1 . 6 1 p e r c e n t . T h e M a y o H o s p i t a l a d m i t t e d 2 2 6 c a s e s a n d h a d
102 deaths, or a mortality of 45.13 per cent. There were 134 cases with
85 deaths in the Howrah General Hospital, where the highest comparative
mortality, viz., 63.43 per cent., was observed ; at the Medical College Hospital
admissions numbered 174, deaths 94, and the ratio per cent. of mortality was
54.02, and 23 cases were distributed between the Presidency General, Police
and Chandney Hospitals.
11. In the Campbell Hospital there were 26 cases, apparently of local
origin, of whom 19 died. They were seized, as explained by the Superinten
-dent, during the time when a large number of cholera cases were under treat
- m e n t . O n e p a t i e n t i n t h e P r e s i d e n c y G e n e r a l H o s p i t a l w a s a t t a c k e d b y c h o l e r a
after admission, but the Surgeon Superintendent considers that he had been
infected previously.
12. One commissioned Medical Officer and two Civil Assistant Surgeons
continue to work with Professor Haffkine in connection with anti-choleraic
inoculations.
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y s e n t e r y.
— A s
i n d i c a t e d i n t h e m a r g i n , t h e t o t a l n u m b e r o f c a s e s
of dysentery, " in" and " out" combined, and
separately, was less in 1896 than in the previous
year. The number of deaths amongst the 1,916
in-patients was 533, as compared with 639 in
1895, and the rate of mortality was 27.81 per cent.
instead of 32.17. The cases treated and results
are shown below :—
Cases. Deaths. Ratio per
cent.
Confluent . . .
9
7
77.77
Semi-confluent . . .
21
5
23.80
Discrete . . .
21
. . .
. . .
Modified . . .
4
. . .
. . .
Hæmorrhagic . . .
1
1
100.
Total for 1896 . . . 56
13
23.21
Total for 1895 . . . 765
279
36.47
1895. 1896.
In-patients . . .
1,986 1,916
Out-patients . . .
6,397 5,862
Total . . . 8,383 7,778