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There were 16 Ward-boys, 4 Ayahs, 2 servants—one for Dispensary and Store-
room and the other for the Cook-room, 1 Store-keeper, 1 Grate-keeper, 1 Brahmin cook,
1 barber, and 2 halalkhors in the first quarter of the current year when the number
of patients was largest. The Manager reduces the number of the Hospital Staff when
patients are less in the hospital. At present there are only 2 ward-boys, 1
servant, 1 nurse, 1 cook, 1 store-keeper and 2 halalkhors with 1 Hospital Assistant
and 1 Compounder.
As to Donations to the hospital, nothing is received through me.
3. This hospital is located in Lall Baug lying between Madhav Baug and
Pinjrapole.
The Lall Baug is originally designed and erected for the use of celebrating
marriages and other festive occasions of the Jains and other caste-Hindus and giving
their dinner parties. It is therefore in the form of one big open oblong—with roofed
verandahs on all sides, but the west where there exists one open verandah. Adjacent
to this verandah is one two-storied building. Its ground floor has got cooking rooms,
servants' quarters and store-rooms. There is also another one-storied building on the
gate and its adjacent south verandah which contain two upper wards and quarters of
the contacts and the servants, and unoccupied rooms at the disposal of the House-
Surgeon and the Hospital Assistant. The gate communicates on the outside
with one long passage which has verandahs on either side—one is roofed and the
other is open.
The place is sufficiently large and accommodating for the hospital requirement,
as well as for the quarters for the contacts and the Hospital Staff. There exists in
this hospital accommodation for 20 contacts. There is a segregation house situated
at Phydhoni, C Ward.
From a hygienic point of view, the place, though situated in the very heart of
the City, is tolerably good for a hospital purpose. Light and air are freely admitted
into every part of the building. It has got very large breathing spaces both in its
own compound and vicinity on all sides. It is open and not surrounded by any
building higher than its OWE. Nowhere it has got any house or street drain except-
ing on the north, where its own drain passes out from the middle of the oblong.
It is closed on this side.
There are in all 12 wards divided into two parts, viz., Lower and Upper. The
former has three wings consisting of 10 wards ; they are set apart for plague
cases and have got 40 beds. Out of the three wings one is allotted to female
and has 3 wards, viz., 1 Convalescent and Improving, 1 Acute and New Admission
and 1 Bad and Delirious. The remaining 2 wings are set apart for males and
consist of 7 wards, viz-.,—2 Convalescent and Improving, 2 Acute and New Ad-
mission, 2 Bad and Delirious, and 1 Pneumonic. The upper has got 3 wards
consisting of 12 beds reserved for non-plague cases, viz.,—4 Beds Fever under ob-
servation, 4 Relapsing Fever, and 4 other diseases. These lower wards are so well
constructed and raised on the roofed verandahs that both light and air are freely
admitted, and they can be moderated also if desirable.
The Office and the Dispensary are situated near the gate, while the quarters for
the Hospital Staff and the Contacts are on the west of the oblong and on the gate
buildings. The sites for the visitors and the friends of the sick are on the open
verandah on moveable benches under temporary roof's covered by creepers in the
passage.