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REPORT ON THE
152, at the Howrah 122, and at the Medical College Hospital 97. The Presi-
dency General, Chandney and Police Hospitals treated 17 cases between
them. Five cases only originated in the Campbell Hospital, of which 3 were
fatal. The number is much less than in 1894, when there were 14 cases. The
Superintendent is unable to assign any cause for the cases which occurred
sporadically during the year under report. The Howrah Hospital, which in
previous years had cases of this kind, enjoyed immunity in 1895. Remember-
ing that cholera was very prevalent in the town, the insanitary condition of
which is notorious, the result is satisfactory. I think, however, the people
of Howrah may suffer less from cholera when the water-works which have been
recently introduced into, that town have been in operation.
11. The Government of Bengal placed under Professor Haffkine the
services of three commissioned medical officers and two Assistant Surgeons to
assist him in his anti-cholera inoculations, the results of which, when published,
will be interesting.
12. Dysentery.— The admissions into hospitals increased, as will be seen
from the marginal figures. The death-rate also
was higher than in the previous year (32.17, against
30.17 in 1894). Of the 1,986 cases, 1,199, or 60.37
per cent., were treated in the Campbell Hospital.
I will only refer to the death-rate in this hospital,
which was 42 .36 per cent., and to that of the
Howrah Hospital, where it was 53 .94 per cent. among all other classes.
Dr. Gibbons has given no explanation as to the high mortality, but undoubtedly
a large number of chronic and moribund cases were received. The death-rate
among the cases of dysentery in Sir Jamsetji Jijibhoy Hospital in Bombay,
which I inspected before I went on leave in February last, was 25 .28 per cent.
in 1894. The Superintendent of the Howrah Hospital states that in the native
department, where the admissions of moribunds are always high, the numbers
were more than usual during 1895, and the majority of them were pilgrims.
13. Diarrhcea.—The table in the margin gives the numbers of in and
out patients treated for this disease. The admis-
sions into hospital were fewer by 99 only. The
death-rate was also less, the figures being 32.37,
against 35.86 in 1894. The death-rate in the
different institutions ranged from nothing among
" all others" in the Presidency General Hospital,
Chandney Hospital, Police Hospital and the Dufferin Hospital, to 9 .80 per
cent. in the Mayo Hospital, 12 .5 in the Medical College, 38 . 11 in the Campbell,
rising to 48.44 in the Howrah Hospital. The causes of the high mortality in
the last two institutions are the same as those explained in the above paragraph.
The death-rate in Sir Jamsetji Jijibhoy Hospital was 35 .94 per cent. in 1894.
The number of deaths in the town of Calcutta from
fever largely increased during 1895. The hospital
statistics also show that the disease was more
prevalent in the year under report. The figures
are given in the margin. The number of admis-
sions shows an increase of 1,048, which is shared by
all the institutions excepting the Howrah Hospital.
Here the number of out-door patients, however, rose from 2,710 to 3,048 in 1895.
The increase among Europeans and Eurasians in the Presidency General Hospital
is noticeable. The rise was from 181 to 437, and the Superintendent observes
that the increase was most marked among the Calcutta residents. The total
1894. 1895.
In-patients
1,634 1,986
Out-patients
7, 572 6,397
Total 9,206 8,383
1894. 1895.
In-patients
1,662 1,563
Out-patients
6,970 6,743
Total 8,632 8,306
14. Malarial fevers.-
1894. 1895.
In-patients
4,059 5,107
Out-patients 49,676 54,149
Total 53,735 59,256