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CALCUTTA MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.
17. Taking in- and out-patients together, the number of males increased
by 26,620, females by 4,757, and children by 5,369. There has been a small
improvement in the proportion of attendance of females in the year under report,
it having risen from 19.22 to 19.44 per cent., but is still too low in my opinion.
The new building for female out-patients at the Mayo Hospital, which has
supplied a great want of that institution, was completed and occupied towards
the end of the year under report. It is to be hoped that the attendance of
females will show an increase in the current year. In some of its affiliated
dispensaries, the arrangements for seeing women are still capable of great
improvement. I have again adverted to these defects in my recent inspection
reports, and hope that they will be removed by the present Superintendent.
The total number of Europeans was 10,062 against 9,256 in 1899, an
increase of 806. An. analysis of the figures shows that there was an addition
of 88 in- and 814 out-patients in the Medical College Hospital Proper. The
latter increase was chiefly due to an error in classification in the Dental Depart--
ment, which will be referred to later on. The Eden Hospital shows a
decrease of 41 in- and an increase of 243 out-patients, but the Obstetric
Physician cannot account for these variations, which are however small. The
Park Street Dispensary shows an addition of 120 out-patients, while the
Howrah General Hospital had an increase of 4 in and a fall of 296 out-patients,
which the Superintendent is unable to explain. The Presidency General
Hospital shows a falling off of 52 in-patients, due to the admission of fewer
seamen, but there was an excess of 19 in the outdoor department. The
Campbell Hospital had 11 more in-patients owing to the admission of a
larger number of small-pox cases, but the number of outdoor patients fell off
by 140.
Eurasians were fewer by 644, the figures being 33,686 against 34,330 in
the previous year. The decrease occurred among out-patients. The largest
falling off took place in the Medical College Hospital Proper (1,022), chiefly due
to an error in classification already noticed. The Campbell Hospital had a fall
of 642, the Park Street Dispensary 667, and the Howrah General Hospital 397.
The Chandney Hospital, one of the branches of the Mayo Hospital, showed an
increase of 1,780, the Superintendent stating that the figures fluctuate from
year to year. Muhammadans increased by 15,778, Hindus by 20,352, and
other classes by 454.
18. The following table shows some important facts in connection with
medical aid in Calcutta and Howrah :—
NAMES OF INSTITUTIONS.
Total
number
of beds
(ma
le and
female).
Average
number of beds
occupied daily.
Number of in-
patients.
Number of
patients in
e a c h b e d p e r a n n u m. Number of
nurses.
Average
number of in-
p a t i e n t s t o e a c h
nurse.
Number of out-
patients.
REMARKS.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
C A L C U T T A H O S P I T A L S .
Medical College Hospital (Proper)
298 241.14 5,257
17.64 32*
7.53 35,075 * Besides these two
are employed out-
door.
Eden
" "
80
78.35 1,718
21.47 7
11.19
2,217
Ezra
"
20
13.32 238
11.9
1
13.32
. . .
Eye
"
51
34.79 516 10.11
1
34.79 12,816
Presidency General "
218 160.05 2,867(a) 13.15 34
4.70 1,140(b)
Campbell "
752 462.62 8,936(c) 11.88 9† 51.40 23,449 † Supervisors.
Mayo
" 105
81.98 1,793 17.07 2
40.99 24,209
Chandney
"
12
10.44 360 30.
...
...
44,385
P a r k S t r e e t D i s p e n s a r y ...
...
...
...
...
...
28,018
Chitpur " ...
...
...
...
...
...
10.380
Sukea' s Street "
...
...
...
... ...
...
13,524
Sambhu Nath Pandit Hospital
54
57.77 1,135 21.01 6
9.63 18,973
Duf f e r i n Vi c t or i a "
36
9.56 158
4.37 6
1.59 4,826
Kidderpore Charitable Dispensary ...
...
...
...
...
...
5,207
" Dockyard "
...
...
...
...
...
...
6,731
Total
1,626 1,150.02 22,978
14.13 98
11.73 239,950
HOWR AH. Howrah General Hospital
112
74.29 1,959 17.49 3
24.76 11,893
GRAND TOTAL
1,738 1,224.31 24,937
14.34 101
12.12 251,843
(a) Including 145 cases of "no appreciable disease."
(b) Ditto 21
ditto
ditto.
(c) Ditto 93
ditto
ditto.
19. The average period of stay of each in-patient in the Calcutta Hospitals
was 18.07 days, and the number of days each patient attended the outdoor
department was 2.46.