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REPORT ON THE

HOWRAH GENERAL HOSPITAL.

Superintendent.

      SURGEON-MAJOR J. G. PILCHER was in charge of this institution during
the whole of the past year, and has written the Annual Sanitary and Medical
report.

Buildings.

      2. The hospital buildings and out-houses are reported as in a good state
of repair. The flooring, however, is much cut up at the entrances, and requires
to be laid with common chunar stone, which would make the place look neat
and tend to the comfort of the sick by allaying the dust.

Sickness.

      3. The aggregate sickness of both in-door and out-door patients can be
seen from the following table, which also exhibits the ratio of deaths to
treated among Europeans, Eurasians, and Natives. The number of house-
patients on the European side has been greater than in any former year:—

      The deductions which can be drawn from the foregoing statement are the
large increase in the number of European in-patients and still more striking
native out-door attendance. The increase in the latter is chiefly attributable
to the zeal and attention of Assistant Surgeon Umrito Lall Deb, who is in
charge of the native department. Regarding the mortality of each section,
Mr. Pilcher writes: "The greater proportionate mortality among Europeans
in the year is due to the larger number of severe accidents brought in from
the port and from the railway, and in the native department, I attribute the
larger number of deaths this year to the greater number of neglected and sick
poor sent in by the Municipality in the last stage of disease."

Mortality,
European and
Eurasians.

      4. The causes of death amongst European and Eurasian patients are
detailed below, and call for no special remark. The numbers admitted under
each disease are not over the average of other years, nor can the complaints
themselves be said to have been of a severe aggravated type:—

Mortality, native.

      5. The diseases which the mortality among the native patients can be seen
from the subjoined statement, which has been extracted from Mr. Pilcher's
report.