ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PRESIDENCY GENERAL HOSPITAL,
CALCUTTA,
DURING THE YEAR 1871.

Average Daily Sick

THE average daily sick during the seven years ending 1871 has been as follows:—

Average number of
sick treated.

Statistics of Sickness and Mortality.

  The aggregate sickness and mortality during the past as compared with the six
preceding years, are displayed in the columns of the sub-joined statement.

  Thus it will be observed that whilst there has throughout the seven years been a
tolerably uniform number of cases admitted for treatment, there has been manifested an
evident tendency of late years to a marked diminution of the death-rate. During the first
four years the ratio of deaths to cases treated amounted to 69.93, 98.50, 63.94, 72.27;
whereas during the remaining three years it has only reached 53.01, 52.92, 36.52.

Diminution of
death-rate.

       The average ratio of deaths to treated during the six years 1865 to 1870 was 68.07,
which exceeds the ratio of the year under report to the extent of 31.55 per thousand of
treated.

  Even after eliminating cholera from the account, this satisfactory state of affairs has to a
demonstratable extent been maintained, as will appear after an examination of the sub-joined
statement illustrating the aggregate sickness and mortality exclusive of cholera.

Death-rates exclud-
ing cholera

  Thus, after excluding cholera the ratio of mortality stands for the first four years at
52.81, 53.59, 45.23, and 48.09, whilst for the remaining three years it stands at 37.20,
39.59, and 30.56.