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REPORT ON THE

also 37 minor operations performed. Regarding this fatal case, the Assistant-Surgeon writes
as follows:—"The single case of death referred to above was due to typhoid fever, which
supervened when the patient was in a fair way towards recovery. There was about this time
a case of typhoid fever in the hospital, which I fear might have communicated its contagion
to the poor sufferer notwithstanding the precautions taken to guard him against it."

Finances.

        7. The Assistant-Surgeon reports that the finances of the hospital are not in a satisfac-
tory condition. The balance at the close of 1875 was Rs. 6,387-7-5. The receipts from
subscriptions and other sources amounted in 1876 to Rs. 8,625-9-3. The expenditure during
the year amounted to Rs. 12,865-1-3, leaving a balance in hand on the 31st of December
of Rs. 2,147-15-5.

Remarks by the
Deputy Surgeon-
General.

        8. The Deputy Surgeon-General of the Presidency Circle visited the hospital on the 22nd
January 1876, and recorded the result in the following terms, viz.—"Visited the hospital
this morning, and found it apparently very satisfactorily conducted; 26 in-patients this day.
Bedding and clothing of the patients clean, and they appeared as comfortable as is possible
in a building of the kind. The floor seems very damp, and the roof is said to leak a good
deal in the rains. It is very desirable that the new building which has been erected for the
purpose should be occupied as soon as possible."

THE MAYO HOSPITAL AND ITS ASSOCIATED DISPENSARIES.

Superintendent.

Associated
dispensaries.

        THROUGH the kindness of Surgeon-Major H. Cayley, the Superintendent of the Mayo
Hospital, who has forwarded me a copy of his annual report and of the returns in connection
with it, I have been enabled to supply full information regarding the number of patients, in
and out-door, who were treated in the Mayo and Chandney Native Hospitals and the insti-
tutions associated with them during the year 1876. These latter were the Park Street,
Chitpore, and Sukea's Street Dispensaries, for the treatment of out-door patients only.

Statistics

        2. The following tables show the principal statistical events in connection with the
working of the Mayo and Chandney Hospitals, as regards in-door patients, during the past
year:—

Admissions.

Death-rate.

        3. From a comparison of the foregoing tables with those given in last year's report,
it will be ascertained that, while there was an increase of the admissions into the Mayo
Hospital by 98 during 1876, there was a decrease in the admissions of the Chandney Hospital
by 80. The total admissions of both hospitals were 18 in excess of those of 1875. In the
Mayo Hospital the death-rate per mille of total treated exceeded that of 1875 by 11.99, but
in the Chandney Hospital the death-rate was less by 4.47. The mortality of both hospitals,
taken collectively, was 10 per mille in excess of what it was in 1875.