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REPORT ON THE

STATEMENT No. I.

The death-rate,
civil and military
hospitals.

     3. It always seems to me that to compare the death rates of any hospitals,
except military hospitals, is of very little use, as the results are very misleading
if it is taken for granted that he smallest mortality indicates the most successful
treatment. In military life all men unfit for duty are supposed to be, and as a
general rule are, in hospital, and thus they must come early under treatment.
It is the same in every regiment and detachment; but into civil hospital,
patients, for whom they are intended and who ought to go, are not compelled to
do so, and too often they stay out too long and apply for admission when treat-
ment is likely to be of little service. This is especially the case in India. From
the statement it appears that the mortality per 1,000 varied from 44.3 in the
General Hospital to 108.3 in the Medical College. Among the police it was
22.0. In the Mayo Hospital 120.3, and in the Campbell, to which many mori-
bund cases are sent, 248.3. The rates per mille for the Calcutta hospitals for
1877 was 127.9, against 172.08 in 1876. In the suburban dispensaries it was
167.7 in 1877, against 166.2 in 1876.

Sex and race of
all the patients
treated.

     4. Statement No. II, which follows, shows the sex and race of all the
patients treated during the year:—

STATEMENT No. II.

Proportion of the
sexes.

     5. It will be observed from the abstract given below that for the past five
years the proportion in which the sexes were admitted was pretty much the
same each year:—

     In like manner we find, taking the experience of four years, that the ratio
in which Europeans, Eurasians, Mahomedans, Hindoos, and others apply for
charitable medical aid in Calcutta is very nearly the same each year:—