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No. II.
Annual Return of Patients treated in the Charitable Dispensaries in the
several Districts in the Province of Oudh, from the 1st January to the 31st
December 1874.
Divison.
Lucknow.
Sitapur.
District.
Lucknow King's Hospital,
„ Civil Dispensary,
„ Balrámpur, ...
Unao,
...
Safipur, ...
„
Purwa, ...
Bara Banki, ...
„
Rámnagar, ...
„
Rudauli, ...
„
Zaidpur, ...
„
Haidargarh, ...
„
Fatehpur, ...
„
Daryabad, ...
Total, ...
Sitapur, ..
„
Muhmadabád,
Hardoi, ...
„
Sandila, ...
„
Shahabad, ...
„
Bilgram,
...
Kheri, ...
„
Muhamdi, ...
„
Gola, ...
„
Dhauralua, ...
„ Singáhi,
...
Total,
..
Remaining on the
1st January 1874.
223
24
160
102
15
30
113
22
...
36
10
4
7
746
42
68
41
154
77
84
50
54
20
..
...
590
Since admitted.
9,611
3,115
10,001
7,304
5,977
3,989
7,121
2,778
2,011
1,604
2,571
1,381
1,983
59,446
7,701
2,438
5,753
7,858
7,894
8,364
3,895
3,181
3,683
476
680
51,923
Total.
9,834
3,139
10,161
7,406
5,992
4,019
7,234
2,800
2,011
1,640
2,581
1,385
1,990
60,192
7,743
2,506
5,794
8,012
7,971
8,448
3,945
3,235
3,703
476
680
52,513
Cured.
5,314
2,968
9,374
7,044
5,933
3,038
6,013
2,657
1,879
1,303
2,468
1,366
1,712
51,069
7,534
1,137
4,787
6,749
7,444
7,778
3,786
2,840
3,531
450
577
46,613
Relieved.
2,496
52
125
31
...
...
74
...
...
...
...
...
...
2,778
...
577
23
210
30
212
..
...
...
...
...
1,052
Incurable.
115
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
116
...
...
...
82
...
60
...
...
...
...
...
142
Died.
70
11
148
13
4
13
37
...
...
1
3
1
2
303
24
10
12
...
18
13
10
6
12
...
5
110
Result unknown.
1,628
76
326
229
43
931
1,016
117
111
315
80
12
258
5,142
130
736
872
835
395
295
114
336
133
...
86
3,932
Remaining under
treatment.
211
31
188
89
12
37
94
26
21
21
30
6
18
784
55
46
100
136
84
90
35
53
27
26
12
664
Capital operations.
26
...
26
11
...
...
54
1
...
7
...
...
...
122
8
...
23
12
17
25
13
2
...
...
...
100
Minor operations.
912
102
1,122
210
150
25
368
124
132
140
60
94
134
3,573
676
58
735
345
742
383
186
239
155
...
...
3,519
Remarks.
No. II.—(Continued.)
Division.
Fyzabad,
Rae Bareli,
District.
Fyzabad, ..
„
Shahganj, ..
„
Tanda... ...
„
Akbarpur, ...
Gonda, ...
„
Utraulá, ...
„
Colonelganj, ...
„
Nawabganj, ...
Bahraich, ...
„
Hisámpur, ...
„
Bhinga, ...
„
Nánpára, ...
„
Ikauna, ...
Total, ...
Rae Bareli, ...
Partabgarh, ...
„
Patti, ...
„
Behar (koondá)
Sultanpur, ...
„
Musáfirkhana, ...
„
Kádipur, ...
„ Amethi, ...
Total, ...
Lucknow, ...
Sitapur, ...
Fyzabad, ...
Rae Bareli, ...
Total, ...
Remaining on the
1st January 1874.
86
64
79
93
52
26
38
...
122
80
24
57
8
729
63
49
7
...
57
32
26
...
234
746
590
729
234
2,299
Since admitted.
5,462
3,194
4,069
5,041
8,816
2,878
5,480
1,005
8,009
6,309
2,245
2,410
2,600
57,518
9,062
10,004
1,556
2,166
4,791
3,653
2,027
3,102
36,361
59,446
51,923
57,518
36,361
2,05,248
Total.
5,548
3,258
4,148
5,134
8,868
2,904
5,518
1,005
8,131
6,389
3,269
2,467
2,608
58,247
9,125
10,053
1,563
2,166
4,848
3,685
2,053
3,102
36,595
60,192
52,513
58,247
36,595
2,07,547
Cured.
4,061
2,925
3,998
4,792
7,609
1,711
4,488
145
7,014
5,980
2,066
2,196
2,457
49,442
8,568
3,432
1,341
2,123
3,603
2,516
2,005
2,740
26,328
51,069
46,613
49,442
26,328
1,73,452
Relieved.
62
27
...
149
41
707
19
650
...
...
...
...
...
1,655
26
6,045
80
...
...
...
...
...
6,151
2,778
1,052
1,655
6,151
11,636
Incurable.
...
...
...
26
...
...
...
...
.
...
...
...
...
26
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
..
..
116
142
26
...
284
Died.
66
8
14
5
49
10
8
...
17
3
4
10
2
196
29
14
5
4
25
..
6
3
86
303
110
196
86
695
Result unknown.
1,292
242
74
118
1,115
432
973
123
1,054
330
180
251
139
6,323
441
502
128
26
1,168
1,133
18
325
3,741
5,142
3,932
6,323
3,741
19,138
Remaining under
treatment.
67
56
62
44
54
44
30
87
46
76
19
10
10
605
61
60
9
13
52
36
24
34
289
784
664
605
289
2,342
Capital operations.
33
33
...
1
23
...
...
...
15
...
...
...
...
105
19
28
...
...
27
..
...
...
64
122
100
105
64
391
Minor operations.
368
58
...
35
348
101
64
5
349
273
73
200
115
1,989
427
302
133
47
320
...
81
...
1,310
3,573
3,519
1,989
1,310
10,391
Remarks.
H. M, CANNON, M. B.,
Deputy Surgeon General, Indian Medical Department,
Lucknow Circle.
No.
Return showing the Diseases treated and the Deaths from each
of Oudh during the
Number of cases of each disease.
Place and Class of Hos-
pitals and Patients.
Lucknow King's Hospital,
„ Civil Dispensary,
„ Balrámpur Hospital,
Unao, ... ... ...
Safipur, ... ...
„ Purwa,
...
...
Bara Banki,
...
...
„ Rámnagar, ...
„
Rudauli, ...
„
Zaidpur, ..
„
Haidargarh, ...
„
Fatehpur, ...
Daryabad, ...
Total,
...
...
Sitapur, ... ... ...
„
Mahmudabad, ...
Hardoi, ... ... ...
„
Sandíla,... ...
„
Shahabad, ...
„ Bilgrám, ...
Kheri, .. ... ...
„ Muhamdi ...
„ Gola, ... ...
.,
Dhaurahra, ... ...
„
Singáhi, ... ...
Total
....
...
Fevers.
896
510
996
1,114
662
496
947
636
324
254
340
430
257
7,862
891
238
824
869
1,461
1,645
695
1,125
1,061
176
146
9,128
Dysentery.
242
212
274
411
195
113
404
91
81
164
45
95
70
2,397
161
100
264
343
287
331
104
123
101
17
27
1,858
Diarrhœa.
244
210
332
550
254
294
267
135
61
45
33
76
102
2,603
210
28
166
172
557
292
140
69
69
11
1
1,715
Cholera.
1
...
3
...
...
2
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
6
...
...
...
...
...
4
...
...
...
...
...
4
Rheumatism.
735
252
636
383
339
224
517
124
107
102
190
72
66
3,747
830
202
422
1,109
817
509
119
125
248
10
71
4,462
Syphilis.
489
32
548
312
328
54
301
70
37
45
47
26
55
2,344
388
98
316
145
84
67
83
44
87
4
25
1,338
Lepra.
136
1
103
14
12
8
101
4
2
13
15
...
30
439
91
23
24
59
20
35
4
1
20
...
...
277
Nerve disease.
385
182
229
229
141
165
170
43
44
5
57
9
43
1,702
34
75
199
191
74
764
237
108
131
20
12
1,845
Chest ditto.
168
92
804
726
448
404
699
204
137
149
63
50
84
4,028
421
259
387
575
415
340
251
71
221
9
26
2,975
Abdomen ditto.
1,602
252
1,710
1,003
957
522
844
414
453
252
715
147
383
9,254
1,064
438
606
662
819
1,236
366
245
320
4
86
5,846
Eye
ditto.
325
192
268
325
213
199
232
59
58
62
106
52
29
2,120
307
90
282
380
362
242
136
215
126
8
44
2,192
Ear
ditto.
164
55
205
297
188
121
172
79
47
12
61
40
34
1,475
158
43
93
217
254
204
70
33
40
3
6
1,121
Genito-urinary.
243
25
327
298
206
113
421
27
43
65
49
65
79
1,961
309
80
186
86
72
176
102
35
186
...
23
1,255
Bone disease.
107
19
77
23
32
4
85
...
...
29
...
3
14
393
6
12
17
63
...
5
12
9
...
...
...
124
Female ditto.
98
98
51
12
20
25
14
...
...
2
...
...
1
321
10
16
13
7
3
16
10
...
16
...
1
92
Skin ditto.
1,881
425
961
400
590
51
768
267
210
196
271
50
146
6,216
1,992
428
1,600
1,105
1,478
453
676
812
437
50
91
9,122
III.
class of Disease in the Dispensaries and Hospitals of the Province
year 1874.
Injuries.
307
59
355
223
244
65
219
126
94
24
80
32
21
1,819
688
112
219
295
325
388
139
113
444
5
8
2,766
Other diseases.
1,791
523
2,246
1,086
1,162
1,154
1,061
520
313
219
504
235
572
11,386
175
262
135
1,710
943
1,729
770
107
191
159
113
6,297
Poisoning.
20
...
36
...
1
5
12
1
...
2
5
3
4
89
8
2
14
24
...
14
31
3
...
...
...
96
Total.
9,834
3,139
10,161
7,406
5,992
4,019
7,234
2,800
2,011
1,640
2,581
1,385
1,990
60,192
7,743
2,506
5,794
8,012
7,971
8,448
3,945
3,235
3,703
476
680
52,513
Deaths from each disease.
Fevers.
6
3
13
1
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
24
5
1
2
...
1
...
1
2
6
...
...
18
Dysentery.
9
1
34
2
...
...
9
...
...
...
1
...
...
56
4
...
1
...
7
3
...
...
1
...
1
17
Diarrhœa.
11
1
10
2
1
...
12
...
...
...
...
...
...
37
...
1
...
...
3
1
1
1
1
...
...
8
Cholera.
...
...
2
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
2
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Rheumatism.
1
...
2
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
4
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
...
2
Syphilis.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
Lepra.
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
Nerve disease.
...
...
10
...
...
5
1
...
...
...
...
...
1
17
...
...
...
...
...
3
...
...
...
...
1
4
Chest ditto.
5
3
16
3
2
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
30
2
7
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
1
16
Abdomen ditto.
7
2
12
1
...
3
3
...
...
...
1
...
...
29
...
...
2
...
3
3
...
1
1
...
2
12
Eye ditto.
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
....
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Ear ditto.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Genito-urinary.
...
...
3
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
3
...
...
3
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
3
Bone disease.
...
...
1
...
...
...
2
...
...
...
...
...
...
3
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Female disease.
1
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
2
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Skin disease.
6
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
6
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
2
Injuries.
3
...
11
3
...
1
4
...
...
...
...
1
...
23
4
...
2
...
1
...
6
1
1
...
...
15
Other diseases.
21
1
31
...
...
3
4
...
...
1
1
...
1
63
5
1
1
...
1
...
1
...
...
...
...
9
Poisoning.
...
...
...
...
1
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
2
2
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
3
Total.
70
11
148
13
4
13
37
...
...
1
3
1
2
303
24
10
12
...
18
13
10
6
12
...
5
110
No. III.—
Number of cases of each disease.
Place and Class of Hospitals and Patients.
Fyzabad, ... ...
„
Shahganj,
...
„
Tanda, ...
„
Akbarpur, ...
Gonda, ... ... ...
„
Utraula, ...
„
Colonelganj ...
„
Nawabganj, ...
Bahraich, ... ...
„
Hisámpur,
...
,
Bhinga, ...
„
Nánpára, ...
„
Ikauna, ...
Total,
...
...
Rae Bareli ... ...
Partabgarh, ... ...
„
Patti, ... ...
„
Bihár
(Kunda),
Sultanpur, ... ...
„
Musáfirkhana,
„
Kádipur, ...
„
Amethi, ...
Total,
...
...
European Patients, ...
Native
do., ...
Total, ... ...
In-door Patients, ...
Out-door
do.,
Total,
...
...
Fevers.
460
570
778
1,139
583
292
295
37
955
903
530
295
448
7,255
1,380
2,367
471
571
756
66l
146
623
6,975
127
31,093
31,220
1,783
29,137
31,220
Dysentery.
66
85
107
420
136
54
68
10
...
176
38
51
47
1,258
402
356
68
141
114
201
63
51
1,396
29
6,880
6,909
345
6,564
6,909
Diarrhœa.
156
146
34
299
147
79
53
10
...
62
65
74
53
1,178
669
467
82
75
143
285
27
34
1,782
49
7,229
7,278
331
6,947
7,278
Cholera.
3
6
...
...
7
...
...
...
...
2
...
...
...
18
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
28
28
6
22
28
Rheumatism.
296
508
470
466
265
234
267
72
...
392
233
204
145
3,552
606
462
78
76
305
122
122
297
2,068
31
13,798
13,829
331
13,448
13,829
Syphilis.
185
65
92
80
203
66
94
16
424
109
46
141
90
1,611
486
373
30
39
216
69
44
88
1,345
10
6,628
6,638
766
5,972
6,638
Lepra.
40
65
33
23
188
49
78
22
91
106
10
10
6
721
59
2
4
4
67
29
18
55
238
...
l,675
1,675
137
1,538
1,675
Nerve disease.
260
83
137
94
180
32
196
4
159
110
53
10
74
1,392
191
194
114
95
151
47
84
64
940
19
5,860
5,879
384
5,495
5,879
Chest ditto.
207
178
332
424
263
44
204
34
488
369
92
276
234
3,145
820
732
91
109
325
177
190
265
2,709
74
12,783
12,857
786
12,071
12,857
Abdomen ditto.
751
593
388
516
1,661
376
428
69
853
594
196
285
245
6,955
1,038
1,287
169
478
496
303
399
406
4,576
112
26,519
26,631
1,543
25,088
26,631
Eye
ditto.
94
59
52
127
273
84
158
39
185
195
143
78
178
1,665
395
597
72
66
170
142
90
178
1,710
45
7,642
7,687
321
7,366
7,687
Ear
ditto.
125
46
8
72
160
82
67
17
5
131
21
124
46
904
508
165
10
15
135
64
67
98
1,062
9
4,553
4,562
43
4,519
4,562
Genito-urinary.
300
13
114
391
327
87
75
26
...
173
84
131
192
1,913
217
327
32
155
194
176
96
78
1,275
10
6,394
6,404
364
6,040
6,404
Bone
disease.
26
10
37
5
24
...
15
...
75
12
...
1
...
205
5
46
...
...
8
...
1
4
64
1
785
786
150
636
786
Female ditto.
25
20
32
43
22
...
26
1
...
10
5
22
4
210
36
32
...
5
3
6
2
11
95
4
714
718
35
683
718
Skin
ditto.
969
722
1,248
833
1,359
926
528
45
1,036
784
413
256
486
9,605
1,024
1,462
102
40
864
946
432
717
5,587
83
30,447
30,530
2,418
28,112
30,530
(Continued.)
Injuries.
206
24
221
60
236
73
38
54
93
60
31
55
44
1,195
175
104
17
37
157
88
50
31
659
21
6,648
6,669
1,230
5,239
6,469
Other diseases.
1,347
65
41
138
2,831
401
2,914
549
3,766
2,201
309
454
346
15,362
1,113
1,077
223
260
734
369
206
96
4,075
112
37,008
37,120
4,649
32,471
37,120
Poisoning.
32
...
24
4
3
25
44
...
1
...
...
...
...
103
1
3
...
...
13
...
16
6
39
9
318
327
89
238
327
Total.
5,548
3,258
4,148
5,134
8,868
2,904
5,518
1,005
8,131
6,389
2,269
2,467
2,608
58,247
9,125
10,053
1,563
2,166
4,848
3,685
2,053
3,102
36,595
745
2,06,802
2,07,547
15,761
1,91,786
2,07,547
Deaths from each disease.
Fevers.
4
...
...
...
2
1
2
...
2
1
1
...
...
13
2
1
3
1
3
...
...
...
10
...
65
65
44
21
65
Dysentery.
4
...
1
...
10
1
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
17
...
1
1
...
4
...
...
...
6
...
96
96
71
25
96
Diarrhœa.
13
...
2
2
2
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
20
3
...
1
...
5
...
...
...
9
...
74
74
60
14
74
Cholera.
1
3
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
4
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
6
6
4
2
6
Rheumatism.
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
...
1
...
8
8
8
...
8
Syphilis.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
4
1
1
...
1
Lepra.
3
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
3
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
4
4
4
...
4
Nerve disease.
6
1
1
...
4
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
12
4
1
...
...
2
...
1
...
8
...
44
44
26
15
41
Chest ditto.
1
...
2
...
2
1
2
...
...
...
...
1
...
9
...
...
...
1
...
...
1
...
2
...
57
57
34
23
57
Abdomen ditto.
1
...
1
...
3
...
1
...
3
1
1
7
...
18
3
1
...
1
2
...
3
...
10
1
68
69
42
27
69
Eye ditto.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
1
1
...
1
Ear ditto.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Genito-urinary.
3
...
...
...
3
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
6
...
...
...
...
3
...
...
...
3
...
15
15
15
...
15
Bone disease.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
6
...
...
...
...
6
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
9
9
3
6
9
Female ditto.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
3
3
3
...
3
Skin ditto.
3
...
1
...
2
...
...
...
1
1
...
...
...
8
1
3
...
...
...
...
...
...
4
...
20
20
16
4
20
Injuries.
8
1
2
3
10
...
...
...
2
...
...
...
...
26
6
2
...
...
1
...
...
1
10
...
74
74
60
14
74
Other diseases.
17
2
...
...
10
6
2
...
3
...
1
2
2
45
9
4
...
1
3
...
...
...
17
...
134
134
117
17
134
Poisoning.
2
...
4
...
1
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
8
1
...
...
...
1
...
1
2
5
...
18
18
8
10
18
Total.
66
8
1
5
49
10
8
...
17
3
4
10
2
196
29
44
5
4
25
...
6
3
86
1
694
695
517
178
695
H. M. CANNON, M. B.,
Deputy Surgeon General, Indian Medical Department,
Lucknow Circle.
REPORT ON DISPENSARIES
AND
LUNATIC ASYLUM
IN THE
PROVINCE OF OUDH,
FOR THE YEAR 1875.
LUCKNOW:—Printed at the OUDH GOVERNMENT PRESS.
No. 4010.
FROM
THE OFFG. SECY, TO THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER,
OUDH,
To
THE DEPUTY SURGEON GENERAL,
INDIAN MEDICAL DEPARTMENT,
LUCKNOW CIRCLE.
Dated Lucknow, the 15th September 1876.
SIR,
GENERAL DEPARTMENT.
I AM directed to acknowledge the receipt of your Annual Report on
Charitable Hospitals and Dispensaries, in Oudh, for the year 1875.
2. The report is in the same form as the last one. The Officiating
Chief Commissioner, being aware that you impressed on all your subordin-
ates the necessity of accuracy in their reports, is disappointed to find a
great number of mistakes and discrepancies in your report and the state-
ments that accompany it. I am to give the following as instances :—
In para. 4 of your covering letter, you observe that with one excep-
tion all branch dispensaries have been visited at least four times by the
District Medical Officers, but from paras. 252 and 253 of your report, it
would seem that two branch dispensaries, at any rate, namely those at
Patti and Kunda, were not visited more than twice.
Para. 5.
In the next para. it is said that charitable dispensaries increased from
43 to 47, whereas the numbers should have been 45 and 48.
Para. 19.
Mohan...
...
...
Gonda ... ... ...
Shahganj
...
...
...
Colouelganj
...
...
Nawabganj
...
...
7
7
5 1 / 10
6
5½
pie.
„
„
„
„
The average cost of dieting each in-door patient is said to have been
about 7 pie per diem during the year under review. But a reference to
the report shows that in all but five* cases,
the average exceeded 7 pie, while in many
dispensaries it was over one anna.
Para. 57.
The receipts and expenditure at the Purwa Branch Dispensary, shown
at page 10 as Rs. 723-4-9, appear in Statement I. as Rs. 723-1-9.
Para. 63.
The expenditure of the Mohan Branch Dispensary is shown at page
11 to be Rs. 426-5-3, but in Statement I. only Rs. 330-1-6 are entered.
Eighty-two minor operations, said to have been performed at this Branch
Dispensary, find no place in Statement II.
Para. 77.
Three capital operations at Zaidpur Branch Dispensary become four
in Statement II.
Para. 116.
In the body of the report 133 patients are said to have remained
under treatment at Bilgrám at the close of the year : Statement II. gives
125 only.
( 2 )
Several discrepancies between the balances on 1st January 1875,
according to your reports of 1874 and 1875, are unexplained. For example,
Balance according to report
of 1874.
Sitapur ...
Akbarpur ...
Bahraich ...
Ikauna ...
Rs.
„
„
„
768
298
114
99
2
1
1
15
2
7
9
5
...
...
...
...
of 1875.
Rs.
„
„
„
487
298
110
99
5
4
1
14
9
7
9
5
So, too, in the number remaining under treatment on January 1st 1875,
as shown in Statement II.
Safipur ...
Sitapur ...
Colonelganj ...
for 1874.
12
55
30
for 1875.
...
...
...
13
58
26
The Officiating Chief Commissioner is aware that when writing your
report you were suffering from a severe illness, but he thinks that so many
errors should not have escaped notice.
3. I am also directed to request that you will issue instructions re-
garding the preparations of the Statements II. and III. Each column
should be sub-divided so as to show in and out-door patients. Clear
orders should be passed regarding classification. If there are separate
columns for "cured" and "relieved," there should be some principle
laid down as to the class under which each case should be entered. At
some institutions persons pronounced incurable in Statement II. are
described in the body of the report as "relieved and cured." For example,
Page 2.
KING'S HOSPITAL.
Relieved and cured in-door... ...
Ditto
out-door ...
Total ...
329
7,994
8,323
Statement II :—
Cured ... … …
Relieved ... ...
Incurable … …
Total
...
5,494
2,695
134
8,323
At Sandila, 96 who appear in Statement II. as incurable, are shown
at page 23 among those who ceased to attend ; and of 522 persons shown
at page 30 as having ceased to attend the Dhaurahra Branch Dispensary,
every one is entered in Statement II. as incurable.
The Officiating Chief Commissioner trusts that you will issue stringent
orders to correct such mistakes, and ensure uniformity in the returns.
Paras. 7 and 8.
4. The increase in the number of patients from 207,547 to 243,045
was 35,498, or about 17 per cent; this was satisfactory. But if State-
( 5 )
treatment. What became of the remaining 51 is not stated, but if they
are included in those that ceased to attend, it seems a large number to
have left the hospital unrelieved, the more so as it appears from State-
ment II. that no incurable cases were treated at this institution.
Para. 105.
17. According to the figures given for the year 1874, the receipts
were ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
and expenses ... ... ... ... ... ...
Rs.
„
6,216
2,701
14
15
5
1
which should give a balance of ... ... ...
yet the balance on 1st January 1875 is said to have been
only.
Rs.
„
3,514
68
15
12
4
3
Para. 107.
13. It is hardly correct to say that those persons who have ceased
to attend at the dispensary have "absconded."
Bilgrám Branch Dispensary
Para. 117.
19. In para. 50 you speak of the number of operations at Safipur,
21 capital and 179 minor operations, as suspiciously high, but you do not
comment on those at Bilgrám, which are more than double that number.
The very large number of injuries treated at this institution is note-
worthy, and some explanation of it should have been given.
Kheri Sadr Dispensary.
Para. 124.
20. In the body of the report, 38 patients are said to have been
under treatment on the 1st January 1875, but in Statement II. and the
returns for 1874 only 35 are shown.
Para. 136.
21. In no instance do the accounts of the dispensaries in this dis-
trict, given in the body of the report, agree with those in Statement I. ;
and you are requested to call on the medical officer to explain the glaring
discrepancies.
Page 47.
22. The Bahraich accounts, too, are anything but clear; at the His-
ampur Branch Dispensary, the year commenced with what is called "an
excess in hand" of Rs. 219-5-3; by this it appears to be meant that
there was a deficit to that amount; and to balance this, there is an item
of Rs. 219-5-3 from "other sources" which does not appear in State-
ment I.
Page 49.
23. In the body of the report, the expenditure of the Nánpára
Branch Dispensary is shown to exceed the receipts; but in Statement I.
there is a balance of Rs. 73-5-9.
Partabgarh Sadr Dispen-
sary
Para. 247.
24. You do not explain the large amount expended on contingencies
at this institution, but it is apparently due to the erection of the build-
ings mentioned in para. 238 of your report.
25. The Officiating Chief Commissioner must admit that with the
materials at your disposal it was well high impossible to compile a cor-
rect report. He is aware that in many instances you returned papers for
correction and pointed out errors ; yet, after all, the statements attached
to your report are so untrustworthy as to be of little or no value. Assist-
ant Surgeons and Hospital Assistants, no doubt, have too much writ-
ing to do, and the statements they have to keep up might be less
elaborate ; but Civil Surgeons, as a rule, are certainly not overworked,
and it is not creditable to them that returns teeming with errors and
blunders should be submitted to you unchecked. With very few excep-
( 6 )
tions these officers can have paid no attention whatever to the preparation
of their annual returns. You are, therefore, requested to make it under-
stood that this is a part of their duties which must no longer be neglected.
26. Setting the figured statements aside, the Officiating Chief
Commissioner gathers from your report that our Dispensaries are gradu-
ally gaining favour with the people. It would seem, too, that the people
are acquiring more confidence in our system of surgery. The popularity
of the institutions must depend in a great measure on the behaviour and
demeanour of the medical practitioners. This has been illustrated in a
remarkable manner at the Sitapur Dispensary, and the Officiating Chief
Commissioner trusts that the example may not be disregarded by your
subordinates.
27. In conclusion, I am to observe that as there are now no less
than 48 Hospitals and Charitable Dispensaries in the Province, the
Officiating Chief Commissioner is of opinion that it will be wiser for some
little time to devote our available funds to the improvement of those
that already exist, rather than to expend them in opening out new
institutions.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
H. J. SPARKS,
Officiating
Secretary to the Chief Commissioner, Oudh.
PRINTED AT THE OUDH GOVERNMENT PRESS.