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Chap. VI.
VITAL STATIS
TICS AND MEDI
CAL BELIEF.
Movement
by sea.
Number of
institutions.
Number of patients.
Diseases.
Attendance by class.
Surgical operations.
Receipts.
Expenditure.
State—Special,
Railway and Noil'
aided Private
Institutions.
Buildings,
Numbers.
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BOMBAY ADMINISTRATION REPORT.
[1908-
2 The number of emigrants who sailed from Bombay under the Indian Emigration
of 1908 fell from 264 to 67. Of these, 27 were hound for Mombasa and Uganda as arti, 4<it
Thirty-two were from the Punjab and 28 from various parts of the Bombay PreJ? 116 '
Emigrants returning to Bombay numbered 131, all time-expired men from Mombasa,
Karachi 52 emigrants left for service on the Uganda Railway, against 177 in the r>rev! 0m
year. Of these, 32 were Punjabis and 18 Sindhis. During the year 99 persons from fiJ‘°" s
718 from Surat and 331 Mahomedans from Kolaba emigrated to South Africa. The colon 1 i
emigration laws have had a deterrent effect. Thirty-seven emigrants returned to Broach and
50 to Kol&ba. a
3. Medical Belief.
For details see the Annual Report on the Civil Hospitals and Dispensaries under the Government of Bombav
for the year 1908 and tables under Hospitals, printed in Part V of the Statistics of British India. y
1. During the year 30 institutions were opened and 16 closed, leaving a total of 71»
civil hospitals and dispensaries open at the end of the year. Of these, 49 were State^—Public
22 State—Special, 263 Local. Fund and Municipal, 10 Private-Aided, 327 Private—Non.’
aided and 47 Railway institutions.
2. The total number of patients treated instate—Public, Local Fund and Municipal
and Private—Aided institutions increased by 19,1S2 to 2,202,941. In-door patients numbered
53089, of whom 14,114 were females. The percentage of mortality fell from 10*1 to 9-9
The total number of beds available wap 5,60o, and the daily average number of patients wag
2,8,77. The attendance of out-door patients increased by 16,433 to 2,149,852, of whom 717 416
were females. The daily average number was 19,479.
3. Malarial fevers showed a considerable increase, the number of cases rising to 422 57Q
or 19’2 per cent, of the total cases treated against 18'2 per cent, in the preceding year
Diseases of the nervous system increased from 42,418 to 57,156 or 2'6 per cent., and tubercular
diseases from 8,016 to 9,149 or 0*42 per cent. There is reason to believe that tuberculosis is
gaining ground among the population. Cases of small-pox numbered 1,194 against 373,
Among other diseases, those of the eye accounted for 10*5 per cent, of the total number
and skin diseases for 10*8 per cent.
4. Of tbe total number of patients 16,477 were Europeans and Eurasians 670 598
Mahomedans and 1,387,029 Hindus.
5. The number of operations performed was 82,044, an increase of 321. Of tbe 81 078
patients, 66,133 were cured and 366 or per cent died against 4*4 per cent, in tbe previous
year.
6. Inclusive of an opening balance of Rs. 1,94,342 the total receipts amounted to
Rs. 20,68,963, an increase of Rs. 1,98,445 as compared with the previous year. Government
contributions amounted to Rs. 10,67,395, an increase of Rs. 1,32,668. Local Fund contri
butions decreased by Rs. 33,982 to Rs. 2,04,660 and Municipal contributions increased by
Rs. 80,800 to Rs. 3,97,584. Subscriptions amounting to Rs. 45,585 showed an increase of
Rs. 5,802, and fees rose by Rs. 576 to Rs. 82,899.
7. The total expenditure was Rs. 18,79,239 against Rs. 16,65,928 in the preceding
year. The net cost was Rs. 17,31,235 and the cost per patient Re. 0-12-8 against
Rs. 15,22,699 and Re. 0-11-4 respectively during 190/. Government paid 55‘2 per cent, of
the total expenditure against 54*4 per cent, in the previous year.
8. In State Special and Railway institutions 4,299 in-door and 208,370 out-door patients
weie treated. In non-aided dispensaries in-door and out-door patients respectively numbered
16,930 and 1,907,123. the total number of patients in all these institutions amounted to
2,136,722 against 2,065,568 in the preceding year.
Important works completed during the year comprised the ‘Sir William Moore ; s
Operating Iheatre in connection with the Jamsetji Jijibhoy Hospital, the extension of the
Cowasji Jehangir Ophthalmic Hospital, Bombay, the New Civil Hospital at Karachi, and the
New Operation Theatre at Ahmednagar. The Belgaum Civil Hospital was transferred to
new buildings. Works in progress included a Nursing Home at Ahmedabad and Opera
tion Theatres at Bijapur and Hyderabad.
4. Lunatic Asylums.
For details see the Report on the Lunatic Asylums under the Governmeut of Bombay for the years 1906-1908
and tables under Lunatic Asylums, printed in Part V of^the Statistics of British India.
}. The number of insanes admitted during the year was 302 males and 65 females,
showing an increase of 16 males as compared with the previous year The total population
ot the asylums was 1,326 against 1,307 and the daily average strength 971-4 against 955*5.
Gumma! lunatics increased m number from 179 to 200. Among the admissions there were