Annual report on the health of the population of West Bengal.

  • West Bengal (India). Directorate of Health Services
Date:
[1950]
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Credit: Annual report on the health of the population of West Bengal. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is no separate eye hospital in the State but facilities for the treatment of diseases of the eye existed in the following hospitals:— Number of beds available. Eye Infirmary Medical Collage Hospital, Calcutta . . 139 Nilratan Sarkar Medical College and Hospital, Calcutta . . 26 Sambhu Nath Pandit Hospital, Calcutta . . . . 4 General Hospital, Howrah Birbhum Sadar Hospital . . . . . . 4 Bankura Sammilani Medical School and Hospital . . 12 General Hospital, Jalpaiguri . . . . . . 14 Berhampore Sadar Hospital . . . . . . 28 Walsh Hospital, Serampore . .- . . . . 9 Fraser Hospital, Burdwan . . . . . . 9 Lake Medical College Hospital, Calcutta . . . . 74 R. G. Kar Medical College Hospital, Calcutta . . . . 38 Upendra Nath Memorial Hospital, Calcutta . . . . 2 Islamia Hospital, Calcutta . . . . . . 9 Mayo Hospital, Calcutta . . . . . . 11 Chitta Ranjan Seva Sadan also maintained an out-patient department on opthalomology for women and children but there was no arrangement for indoor treatment. Three travelling eye dispensaries subsidised by Government worked in the State and their total work done during 1950 is sumarised below:— Number of Lectures Enumeration of the District. Subdivision where they worked. eye disease cases treated. operation performed delivered on preven tion of blindness. blind. Number of villages. Noumber of persons completely blind. Midnapore .. Tamluk and Ghatal 14,647 591 18 121 167 Malda .. Malda ] Jalpaiguri Alipurduar Y 8,963 1 324 16 25 15 Cooch Behar .. Cooph Behar 1 J Birbhum .. Suri .. 10,081 241 7 24 75 33,691 1,156 41 170 257 (E) Mental Diseases.—There is no Government Mental Hospital in this State. Government of West Bengal maintained 650 beds in the 2 Mental Hos¬ pitals—Indian Mental Hospital, Kanke, and Inter-Provincial Hospital, Ranchi. In Calcutta, there is one Mental Observation Ward Consisting of 30 beds. In this ward there is no provision of treatment. It is used for certification of cases before they are sent to Ranchi Mental Hospital. The following Mental Hospitals and Clinics worked in the State during the year under report : Mental Hospital, Mankundu—60 beds. Lumbini Park Mental Hospital, 24-Parganas—50 beds. Unmad Asram, Dum Dum—80 beds. Psychiatric Clinic Medical College, Calcutta.
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