Report of the Principal Civil Medical Officer and Inspector-General of Hospitals / [Ceylon].

  • Ceylon. Civil Medical Department
Date:
[1908]
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Credit: Report of the Principal Civil Medical Officer and Inspector-General of Hospitals / [Ceylon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Rs. 1.006,414'47 in 1907. The following statement shows the expenditure and receipts as compared with 1907:— Expenditure. Personal Emoluments Other Charges Hospitals and Dispensaries . Total Harbour Service (Port and Marine) Plague Precautions Total Grand Total Receipts. Amounts due by paying patients in hospitals Collections at dispensaries .. Cost of medicines issued to Estates Branch institutions Sale of medicines and super¬ fluous articles. College fees, and bills of health Lunatic Asylum paying patients Total Nett Expenditure .. 1007. 100S. Increase or Decreaso. • Rs. c. Rs. c. Rs. c. 658,031 36 700,990 73 .. 42,959 37 (Increase) 106,207 42 • • 8o,4o8 S4 .. 20,748 5S (Decreaso) 810,564 31 264,657 22 .. > 1,016,966 44 .. 76,951 65 (Decrease) IS,696 56 • • J 1,200,125 51 1,102,425 28 97,700 23 (Decrease) 1,039 59 720 0 .. 319 59 (Decrease) 6,303 S3 9,149 93 .. 2,846 10 (Increase) 7,343 42 9,S39 93 2,526 51 (Increase) 1,865,500 29 1,S13,2S5 94 52,214 35 (Decrease) 52,OSS 90 72,976 92 .. 20,534 55 25,319 53 .. — 128,044 50 .135,805 5 .. — 58,417 87 59,441 5 .. — — 6,917 1 .. — • 259,0S5 S2 300,459 56 — 1,606,414 47 1,512,826 38 93,58S 9 (Decrease) ESTi ITES Branch. 70. During the year 190S there were 1,994 estates scheduled to 33 districts and 29 sub-clistricts, with 21 district hospitals and 29 dispensaries and 14 civil hospitals and dispensaries. 71. The following are the districts and sub-districts with the number of estates scheduled to each:—Avisawella District 49, sub-district Hamvella 15, sub-district Bandaragama 25, sub-district Ragama 1, sub-district Parakaduwa 15 ; Kalutara District 49, sub-district Horawela 17 ; Kandy District OS, sub-district Galagedera 11, sub-district Kadugannawa 19, sub-district Hanguranketa 5; Elkaduwa District 20. sub-district Wattegama 34; Ivellebokka District 40; Dikoya District 61, sub-district Bogawantalawa 2S, sub-district Watawala 39 ; Maskeliya District 00 ; Gampola District 60, sub-district Pussellawa 36 ; Lindula District 54, sub-district Agrapatna 43 ; Dimbula District 52 ; Matale District 101, sub-district Rattota 34, sub-district Gammaduwa 21 ; Teldeniya District 31, sub-district Rangalla 28 ; Deltota District 44; Nuwara Eliya District 36, sub-districtNanu-oya 19 ; Maturata District 26 ; Ramboda District 32 ; Uda Pussellawa District 31, sub-district Mulhalkelc 3 ; Nawalapitiya District 62 ; Dolosbage i District 34 ; Kotmale District 19 ; Morawak Korale District 26 ; Balapitiya District 28 ; Udugama District 19; Badulla District 54, sub-district Namunakula 22, sub-district Passara 10 ; Lunugala District 25, sub-district Madulsima 29 ; Monaragala District 12 ; Haputalo District 19, sub-district Bandarawela 9, sub-district Haldummulla 25, sub-district Koslanda 29 ; Kurunegala District 60, sub-district Rambuk- kana 6 ; Ratnapura District 31 ; Balangoda District 45 ; Rakwana District 26 ; Ivcgalla District- 50 ; Karawanella District 89, sub-district Kitulgala 23, sub-district Aranayalca 16, sub-district Buiatkohu- pitiya 7, sub-district Nelundeniya 6. 72. To attend to the medical wants of the above the following were employed :—Medical Officers Second Grade 15 ; Medical Officers Third Grade 14 ; and Apothecaries 62. 73. During 1908 there were 17,091 estate labourers treated in the district hospitals and civil constituted district hospitals, against 15,590 in 1907. Of these, 3,627 died, a death-rate of 2R22 per cent. Of the mixed races 30,563 were treated, of whom 2,447 died, a death-rate of S'00 per cent. 74. - In the civil hospitals worked partly as district hospitals the death-rate of estate labourers was 26'33 per cent., whilst in the district hospitals it was 21'75 per cent. The highest death-rate (33'09) among the estate labourers occurred in the district hospital at Ratnapura, and the lowest (5*26 per cent.) in the Civil Hospital at Colombo. The admissions into the former were 834, into the latter 19. 75. The total number of days the estate labourers stayed in hospital was 404,579, an average of 23'67 days each. Of these, 304,337 were paid for by the estates, the rest being charged to the fund. ; The total number of days the mixed races stayed in district and civil hospitals was 350,334, an average of 11T 3 days. 76. The total number of estate labourers treated at the outdoor dispensaries was 70,605. The total number of estate labourers treated on estates was 34,169. 77. The total number of births reported from estates was 16,180, of which 8,0S4 were males, 7,529 were females, and 507 were stillbirths. 78. The number of deaths reported from estates was ] 2,636, of whom 6,149 were males, 6,474 were females, and in 13 cases the sex was not stated. 79. Mtdical .4 id.—The expenditure under the Medical Aid Ordinance amounted to Rs. 631,3S6'66 oi d, the receipts to Rs. 375,926*15, leaving a deficit of Rs. 255,400*51. A. PERRY, M.D., Principal Civil Medical Officer, aiid