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Statistics.

        3. The statistics of the hospital for the past year are clearly shown in the following
table:—

1876.
IN-DOOR PATIENTS.		 Remained. Admitted. Total. DISCHARGED. Died. Remaining. REMARKS.
Cured or relieved. Unknown.
  Males ... ... ... ... 7 7 7 ... ... ... Daily average number of sick.
Eurasians ... Females ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...  
  Children ... ... ... ... 2 2 2 ... ... ... Males ... ... 26.45
  Males ... ... ... 3 97 100 73 6 17 4 Females ... ... 7.48
Mussulmans ... Females ... ... ... 1 3 4 3 1 ... ... Children ... ... .62
  Children ... ... ... ... 1 3 4 3 ... 1 ...  
  Males ... ... ... 22 381 403 259 29 91 24  
Hindoos ... Females ... ... ... ... 6 105 111 61 5 37 8  
  Children ... ... ... 4 4 3 ... 1 ...  
    Total ... 33 602 635 411 41 147 36   Total ... 34.55
    Total in 1875 ... 37 588 625 422 34 136 33  

        It will be ascertained from the foregoing table that the numbers of new cases and of
the total treated exceeded those of 1875 by 14 and 10 respectively. The death-rate of 1876
was 23.14 per cent. of total number treated, against 21.76 per cent. in 1875, 17.44 in 1874,
and 19.35 in 1873. The Assistant Surgeon accounts for this remarkably high death-rate as
follows:—”The high mortality was due, as explained in previous reports, to the admission
of a large number of cases of diarrhœa, dysentery, fever, and cholera of the worst type, the
sufferers arriving in so weak and emaciated a state that any plan of treatment was found
fruitless."

Causes of mortality.

        4. The mortality was caused by the following diseases, and a consideration of them,
as well as of the figures placed opposite each one, will perhaps be accepted as an ample corro-
boration of the Assistant-Surgeon's explanation supplied in the preceding paragraph.

Diseases. Total
treated.		 Died. DIED PER CENT. Diseases. Total
treated.		 Died. DIED PER CENT.
Of
treated.		 Of total
deaths.		 Of
treated.		 Of total
deaths.
Enteric fever ... ... 1 1 100.00 .68 Pleurisy ... ... ... 3 1 33.33 .68
Ague... ... 75 3 4.00 2.01 Hydrothorax ... ... 1 1 100.00 .68
Remittent fever ... ... 98 27 27.55 18.36 Dysentery ... ... 32 7 21.87 4.76
Cholera ... ... 33 23 69.69 15.64 Diarrhœa ... ... 87 33 37.93 22.44
Phthisis ... ... 4 3 75.00 2.04 Cancrum oris ... ... 2 1 50.00 .68
A næmia ... ... 5 2 40.00 1.36 Enteritis ... ... 5 1 20.00 .68
General dropsy ... ... 36 24 66.66 16.32 Ulcer ... ... ... 21 1 4.76 .68
Of the nervous system, paralysis, &c. 17 5 29.41 3.40 Injuries ... ... ... 96 4 4.16 2.72
          Poisoned wounds ... 10 4 40.00 2.72
Pneumonia ... ... 10 6 60.00 4.08          

        Bowel complaints (dysentery and diarrhœa) caused more than one-fourth of the total
mortality; dropsy and anæmia (the sequelæ of malarious poisoning) caused 18 per cent.;
fever, 20 per cent.; cholera, 16 per cent.; &c., &c. The mortality from cholera was at the rate
of 69.69 per cent. of total treated—thus proving that the disease was of a very malignant
type, or else that, in attacking subjects whose constitutions were broken down by poverty
and its concomitants, it was assisted to the fullest extent in running to a fatal
termination. Indeed, judging from the high death-rate of most of the diseases just shown,
the conclusion may reasonably be arrived at that such factors as poverty and the debility
induced by it exerted a very marked influence on the mortality of the patients who were
admitted into the North Suburban Hospital for treatment.

Cholera.

        5. The cases of cholera admitted during the year amounted to 32, and the following
are the localities from which they came, viz.—

Barnagore ... ... ... 9 Ballygunge ... ... ... 1
Chitpore ... ... ... 6 Bailgurh ... ... ... 1
Cossipore ... ... ... 3 Bistoopore ... ... ... 1
Ooltadaugah ... ... ... 3 Alum Bazar ... ... ... 1
Sham Bazar ... ... ... 2 Places not specified ... ... ... 5

Operations.

        6. It appears that there were 13 major operations performed during the year. Of these
but one case (an amputation of the arm) was followed by a fatal result from an attack of
typhoid fever. The mortality after operations was at the rate of 7.69 per cent. There were