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REPORT ON THE

          Taking the hospitals of Calcutta proper, including the Medical College,
General Hospital, Mayo Hospital and Dispensaries, Campbell and Police
Hospitals, we find that the number of house-patients had increased by 3,902,
while the out-door patients had diminished by 18,034. This no doubt was
caused by the closing of the out-door department of the Presidency General
Hospital, at which were treated 20,248 out-patients in 1877. The rate of
mortality in these hospitals was notably higher in 1878 than in 1877, having
been 149.9 per mille in the former, and 127.9 in the latter year; but it was
much below the death-rate of 1876, which was 172 per thousand treated.

          Looking at the Howrah General and the Suburban Hospitals and Dispen-
saries, we have a decrease of 53 house-patients and an increase of 10,109 out
door patients. The rate of mortality was 220.8 per thousand in 1878, 'against
167.7 in 1877 and 162.2 in 1876. Taking all the medical institutions of
Calcutta and its suburbs, the general result for the year is an increase of 3,849
in-door patients and a decrease of 7,925 out-door patients in 1878 as compared
with 1877. The total death-rate was 157.8 per thousand last year, against
133.2 the year before.

          The following scheme exhibits the increase and decrease of patients treated
in the Calcutta hospitals during the past six years:—

STATEMENT No. II.

  1873. 1874. 1875. 1876. 1877. 1878.
In-door. Out-door. In-door. Out-door. In-door. Out-door. In-door. Out-door. In-door. Out-door. In-door. Out-door.
Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease.
Medical College
Hospital		 ... 415 1,478 ... ... 399 1,508 ... 107 ... 175 ... ... 104 ... 695 615 ... 2,827 ... 181 ... 1,480 ...
General Hospital ... 549 ... ... ... 68 1,107 ... 408 ... 8,437 ... 765 ... 6,749 ... 1,145 ... 3,955 ... ... 864 ... 20:248
Mayo Hospital and
Dispensaries		 ... 37 ... 14,969 ... 503 25,686 ... 1,002 ... 36,148 ... 23 ... ... 4,098 98 ... 242 ... ... ... 734 ...
Campbell Hospital ... 196 ... ... 2,287 ... ... ... 224 ... ... ... ... 1,142 ... ... 313 ... ... ... 4,048 ... ... ...
Municipal Police
Hospital		 ... 850 ... ... 356 ... ... ... 539 ... ... ... ... 619 ... ... 598 ... ... ... 537 ... ... ...
Total ... 2,047 1,478 14,969 2,643 970 28,301 ... 2,280 ... 44,760 ... 788 1,865 6,749 4,793 2,769 ... 7,024 ... 4,766 864 2,214 20,248
Increase ...... 29,978 47,040 879 9,793 ......
Decrease 11,448 ...... ...... ...... ...... 14,132

          3. Sex and race of all the patients treated.—These particulars are given in
the following table. It will be observed that there were fewer European appli-
cants for medical relief by 1,666 and of Eurasians by 2,281 whereas there
was an increase of Mahomedans by 2,377, fewer Hindus by 5,302, and of other
castes more applicants in 1878 than in 1877 by 2,247.

STATEMENT No. III.

  Total for
1877.		 Males. Females. Children. Totals for
1878.
Europeans 12,042 8,005 1,356 1,015 10,376
Eurasians 31,431 9,948 7,614 14,588 32,150
Mahomedaus 107,928 66,919 13,431 29,955 110,305
Hindus 161,770 111,314 20,777 24,377 156,468
Other castes 9,391 3,221 3,112 5,305 11,638
Total 325:562 199,407 46,290 75,240 320,937*

* Exclusive of 549 cases treated in the dental dispensary in Medical College Hospital, particulars of which have not been
received.

          4. The relative proportions in which the sexes were admitted is given
below. The average for the five years, 1874 to 1878, has been for males 60.30,
for females 15.6, and for children 23.9, and year after year the numbers do not
materially differ.

  1873. 1874. 1875. 1876. 1877. 1878.
Males 61.8 59.85 59.67 60.38 59.94 62.13
Females 15.5 16.59 15.83 15.83 15.29 14.42
Children 22.7 23.39 24.49 23.78 24.76 23.44