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REPORT ON THE CALCUTTA. MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS.

Expenditure.

     9.    The next table embraces the detail of expenditure during the year.

Reduction of cost per
patient.

     The total was a trifle less than that of last year. The amounts being Rs.
35,271 in 1871, and Rs. 35,036-7-3 in 1872. This is satisfactory, when it is
considered that during the year under report there was an increase of no less
than 904 cases in the total number treated in the hospitals compared with the
previous year. In almost every item there has been considerable reduction.
Thus the cost of establishment in 1871 came to Rs. 109-5-3 per patient; whereas
in 1872 it was Rs. 64-1-6. Diet and extras in 1871 came to Rs. 64-9-10; whereas
in 1872 it was Rs. 46-9-9 per patient. Clothing and contingencies cost in both the
years exactly the same, viz. Rs. 8-3-9; and bazaar medicines cost in 1871 annas
7-6, and in 1872 annas 5, per patient. The consequence has been that the total
cost per patient in 1872 was Rs. 119-4 against Rs. 182-10-5 in 1871.

Venereal disease in
the garrision of
Fort William.

     10.   The next subject for consideration in this report is the effect of the Act
on the health of the male population. It is convenient to separate the military
from the civil population.

     It will be seen from this table that the reduction pointed out by Dr. Payne
in last year's report has not only been maintained, but has even been improved
upon.

     The admissions are as follows:—

*Act in force for nine months.

† Act in force for entire year.

‡The correct figure is 13 9—See postscript.

§ The correct figures are 48 and 69—See postscript.