Annual report of the Director, Medical & Health Department / Colony of Mauritius.

  • Mauritius. Medical and Health Department.
Date:
[1902]
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Credit: Annual report of the Director, Medical & Health Department / Colony of Mauritius. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE III. Years. Daily average number in Hospital. Males. Females. Total. 1901. 141 51 192 1902. 150 59 209 4. Table IV is a General Statement of Admissions, Dis¬ charges and Deaths in 1902. TABLE IV. Males. Females. Total. Number remaining at end 1091 of 1901. 74 35 i >6201 Number admitted in 1902. 4668 1424 6092 \ Total number treated in 1902. 4742 1459 ... 6201 r Cured 2956 829 3785^ Number j Relieved ... 1085 340 1425 ( discharged.! Not impro- > OOiJi ved. 295 92 387 ! 1 Number died 327 101 428 r6201 Number remaining at end of 1902. 128 48 176> Those who left hospital without improvement were dis¬ charged upon their own request or that of their relatives, and, usually, against the advice of the attending medical officers. They were for the most part patients suffering from chronic or incurable ailments who had, not unfrequently, to come back to hospital shortly after, worse than ever. 5. There were 428 deaths during the year as compared with 509 in 1901. TABLE V. Number of patients Number of Death-rate per cent Years. treated. deaths. ot patients 1901.. 5684 509 8.9 1902... 6201 428 6.9 It results from the above table that the patients’ death rate was much lower in 1902 than in the preceding year, although, as usual, a large proportion of the patients were admitted in a dangerous when not in a dying state.— Table VI shows that no fewer than 118 deaths, or more than one fourth of the total number, occurred within 72 hours after admission.