This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...paras. 18--20 of your report are an extract. 9. You do not give the usual comparative statement, but the Officiating Chief Commissioner having called for the Superintendent's report finds the figures to be these: -10. The death rate is very high. It has risen from 16'14 per cent, on the average strength to 20'07; or, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...paras. 18--20 of your report are an extract. 9. You do not give the usual comparative statement, but the Officiating Chief Commissioner having called for the Superintendent's report finds the figures to be these: -10. The death rate is very high. It has risen from 16'14 per cent, on the average strength to 20'07; or, taking the percentage on the total number under treatment, from 10 to something less than 13. The deaths were most frequent among the females: out of a total number of 62 no less than 15 died, while of 165 men only 13 died. Of the patients who died, 6 men and 8 women had been in the asylum for less than one year. 11. The very high death rate at this institution has been the subject of correspondence during the past year, and you have expressed your opinion that it is not owing to the unhealthiness of the site. The fact, however, remains that the rate is double what it should be, taking the rate at other lunatic asylums as a criterion. This you do not attempt to account for, but I am to bring the subject to your notice, and to point out that this great mortality calls for your earnest attention; at present matters are anything but satisfactory. 12. The Balrampur Hospital has, on the whole, had the greatest number of patients on its books, namely 10,161, but it is closely followed by the Partabgarh Sadr Dispensary with 10,053. 718 were in, and the remainder out-door patients. The number of capital operations appears from the return to have been 26. According to the return there were no in-door patients at the close or at the beginning of the year, although the daily average throughout the year was 47'97; but this is evidently a mistake, and the figures 48 and 40, which in the statement show the number of out-patients who died, should be opposite &..
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