DISPENSARIES AND PLAGUE IN RAJPUTANA.
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138. A Dai Class has again been started since the 16th November,
1914 with an admission of 5 pupils, 3 are from the districts and 2 from Kotah
City, They appear to he promising.
139. Miss K. Reed, L.R.C.P. &.S. (Edinburgh), L.F.P.S. (Glasgow) and
L.M.R.C.P. & S. (Ireland), was in charge of the Walter Zenana Hospital at
Tonk up to the 10th October 1914 when she went on leave and since then
Female Sub-Assistant Surgeon Miss Blanche Karimullah has been in sole
charge of the Hospital under the supervision of the Male Assistant Surgeon at
Tonk, 222 in and 7,074 out-door patients were treated as compared with 230 in
and 6,936 out-patients in the previous year.
140. Jaipur.—Miss L. E. Sykes, M,B. and L.R.C.P. & S. (Edinburgh),
has been in charge of the Female Wards of the Mayo Hospital at Jaipur
throughout the year. There was a considerable decrease in the number of out-
door patients as compared with the previous year which was attributed to the
non-appearance of epidemic disease in the Jaipur City.
141. One student Govindi Bai was admitted into the Female Sub-Assis-
tant Surgeon class at the Agra Medical School in July 1914.
142. The compounding, dressing and nursing in the female wards is
entirely done by females.
143. Bikaner.—Female Sub-Assistant Surgeon Mrs. Elizabeth Moji Ram
was in charge of the female wards of the Bhagwan Das Hospital at Bikaner
up to February 1914 when the Zenana Hospital was opened there and Miss
C. M. Peake, M.D., B.Sc. (London), was appointed to the charge of the new
Hospital.
144. There was an increase in in-door attendance as compared with the
previous year which indicates the popularity of the Hospital and of the Lady
Doctor in charge.
145. Alwar.—Female Sub-Assistant Surgeon Bala Bai has been in charge
of the Dufferin Hospital at Alwar throughout the year. No Lady Superin-
tendent has been appointed since April 1911. The number of in-patients
treated in the hospital was 357 and of out-door patients 18,958 against 330 in
and 15,611 out-door patients in 1913.
146. Bharatpur.—The work of the Female Hospital at Bharatpur was
carried on under a Male Sub-Assistant Surgeon attached to the Victoria
Hospital there till the 8th November 1914 when Female Sub-Assistant
Surgeon Mrs. Patwardhan was appointed and put in charge of the Hospital.
353 in and 4,835 out-door patients were treated as compared with 247 in and
5,054 out-door patients in the previous year.
147. Udaipur.—The Walter Female Hospital at Udaipur has been
without a Female Sub-Assistant Surgeon from the 22nd April 1912 and
without a Lady Doctor from 15th April, 1913.
148. A male compounder from the Lansdowne Hospital looks after the
surgical instruments, appliances and furniture contained in this Hospital.
149. The eleven cases treated in the Hospital were Labour cases
sent by the State authorities for delivery
150. Dai Class, Ajmer.—Mrs. M. Kane, Lady Superintendent, has been in
charge of the Dai Training Class, Ajmer, throughout the year. The five pupils
who were mentioned in last year's report as being under instruction conti-
nued to work till the end of the Session when they were examined by the Civil
Surgeon, Ajmer, on the 29th April 1914. All of them passed and obtained
their certificates and the usual honorarium was given to successful candidates.
Four were seholarship holders and one was not.
151. Seven pupils were admitted into the current year's class of whom one
came from Bharatpur, one from Karauli, one from Tonk, and four were local.
152. During the year 37 in-door and 61 out-door cases were treated and
137 patients sought advice and treatment.
IMPERIAL SERVICE TROOPS.
153. The Hospitals of the Native State Imperial Service Troops are all