215
This result compares very favourably with the other Hospitals. All requisites for
this Hospital were supplied by the community, and when it could be clone, I detailed
one lady doctor Mrs. Van Ingen, nurse Neroy, and an assistant, Mr. Rajaballi, to attend
to the sick.
Owing to the enlightened ideas of Mr. Mahomed Ali, he persuaded his country-
men to have Dr. Yersin's prophylactic inoculation, and nearly 400 men were inocu-
lated, and lately 191 children were similarly inoculated by Dr. Simond of the Paris
Institute. Owing partly to these measures, I believe, the disease in this community has-
practically stopped at a very much earlier date than it has in the others. Although I
have no definite data to go on, and trust to Mr. Mahomed Ali's word, I have no reason
to doubt the fact that he states to me that none of those inoculated have contracted
the disease. Yersin's inoculations were practically painless and produced hardly
any unpleasant after-results. But I am informed that Dr. Simond's Serum is stronger,
and that the little ones injected were affected with a good deal of after-pain, and in
some instances accompanied with fever.
The Mahomedan Hospital.—This Hospital, as stated before, was originally a dispen-
sary and situated on the river bank outside the city walls. It is capable of accom-
modating about 30 or 40 sick. When it was opened for plague-patients, it was origi-
nally intended that it should be used for all classes of Mahomedans, and supplemented
by utilising one or two Dharmashalas near in case it was overcrowded ; but I had the
greatest difficully in persuading any of the other Mahomedans, viz., the Khatris and
the Khoja Menions, to uso this place, and was eventually forced to provide accom-
modation for these classes elsewhere as will be shewn. This Hospital was not at all
patronised till very late in the epidemic, and the cases were comparatively few.
The returns for this Hospital are as follows :—
Admitted.
103
Discharged.
31
Died.
65
Kemaining.
7
This Hospital was under Surgeon-Captain Mason with Dr. Karanjia, a local
practitioner, to help him. I was able to allow them the services of a nurse, and latterly
the three English nurses attached to the Khoja Hospital quite near, have kindly given
their help in attending to the patients.
The Khatri Hospital.—This section of the Mahomedan community would have
nothing to do with the Hospital set apart for the Mahomedans, and set up for them-
selves constructions of badly-made huts on the north of the city walls, and, as they
totally disregarded the usual laws of isolation of sick and mingled with them freely,
the death-rate must have been very high. However, after a great deal of persuasion,
we managed, with the help of their head men, to select a very convenient and suitable
spot near their co-religionists, the Hajeera people, and gave them the services of a
hospital assistant and a lady doctor Mrs. Van Ingen.
The situation and construction of this Hospital was by far the best of all the
temporary sheds, and after once removing to these, their cases did very well indeed.
The Hospital was opened for them on the 19th May, when they sent in 29 cases, and
from that time till the date was closed, viz., the 13th June, we had—
Admitted.
60
Discharged.
37
Died.
23
The Khoja Memons.—This section of the Mahomedan community were also very
unwilling to be treated with other Mahomedans and made for themselves sheds
outside the city, where we were obliged to look after them as well as we could manage