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The beddings, clothes and dressings of plague patients are burnt in one corner of
the open square situate in the north-east direction of the hospital. This square is
situated on the back part and is quite aloof from the hospital building.
4. Conservancy. —There is but one latrine with two seats only. It is situated in
a quite separate corner and in its own compound. It is on the north-west of the
oblong-open-verandah. It is used by the Hospital Staff and the Contacts. The sewage
is removed daily four times by a halalkhore residing in the hospital compound to a
night-soil depot in the Ardesher Dady Sheth Street, Falkland Road, Null Bazaar.
Two commodes are placed—one for the male Convalescent Improving patients and
another for similar female patients at the end of their respective ward-wings on a
specially prepared spot with moveable curtains forming four sides. The contents of
the commode are disinfected and removed by a halalkhore on duty to the latrine
where it is collected and the commode is washed and disinfected. Besides these
commodes, several bed-pans are kept ready near the commode-spot and in the Acute
and the bad wards. Here the ward servant has to hand over the bed-pan when the
patient has passed stools in it to the halalkhore on duty, because halalkhores are not
permitted to enter wards. The bed-pan and its contents undergo the same process
of disinfection and washing as in the case of the commodes. Corrosive Sublimate
solution (1-l,000) is used for disinfection and for washing these pots.
The clothes are kept soaked for one day in water in a large wooden tub
placed at one corner of the open-oblong-verandah. The Corrosive Sublimate solution
is added to the water. They are then washed with water, dried, and lastly given to
dhobi for better washing.
5. The Hospital water-supply is entirely derived from the Vihar-water-main.
6. Wards and other buildings are disinfected by lime with Corrosive Sublimate
solution.
Phenyle solution is used to disinfect the latrines and commode spots.
The kits of the contacts were sent four times to the Modikhana Disinfecting
Station with a Hospital servant. Twice they were disinfected and twice they were
returned not disinfected.
7. The body of a dead person is first washed with water containing Carbolic Acid
solution (1-20), and then it is wrapped up in a sheet of cloth soaked in Corrosive Sub-
limate solution. The dead are conveyed by their relatives and friends to the Sonapur
Cemetery and cremated according to the current Hindu way. Only in four unclaimed
cases a Municipal cart removed their dead bodies to a cemetery for disposal.
8. There was not a single case of plague, previously inoculated with Prof.
Haffkine's prophylactic, admitted into the hospital.
Temperature on admission is commonly above 102° F. It rises by 1° or 2°t
o about 105° F. in about 2—4 days. Its height is maintained for about 3—7
days. It begins to fall generally by lysis, reaching its subnormal level in about
6—15 days. The critical falls in temperature are sometimes observed even in cases
of recovery. The subnormal level is commonly by 1° or 2°, and is kept up for
about 6—30 days, or even longer. The morning remissions in temperature are
generally from about 1° to 2°. Critical rises and falls are commonly dangerous.
The maximum temperature observed is 106° F. and the minimum 101° F.
Delirium commonly occurs after 2—5 days. It is a common symptom and
generally not a bad one. Some ideas either of a personal or domestic, or business,
or depressive character take a firm hold upon his mind. They are not given out at