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House for Hospital Assistant, Assistant Nurse, and Clerk,
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„ Kitchen and Storeroom.
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„ High Caste Servants.
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„ Low do.
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„ Sweepers.
I attach a list of donors and amounts, subscribed to the Building fund, as well as
a balance sheet, and I again beg to place on record the Committee's sincere thanks
for these handsome donations. I also beg to thank Khan Bahadur Sirdar Mir Abdul
Ali, Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department, for the great interest he has taken
in the work. It is the Sirdar, who was almost solely instrumental in collecting the
subscriptions and to whose untiring energy the erection of the buildings is due.
The latrines were built by the Committee with materials, lent for the purpose by
the Municipality. They have corrugated iron sides and roof, and 5 seats built over a
cement flooring. The pans into which the excreta were deposited, were regularly
cleaned out by the Municipal Conservancy corps as was also the cesspool. Both
latrines and cesspool were daily disinfected under the supervision of the Hospital
Assistant, or Clerk.
The dead house is now pulled down, having only been a temporary concern, but
the two washing platforms and cesspool which were constructed in a very thorough
manner, and thickly coated with cement, are now in as good a state as at the begin-
ning and the Committee will only require to rebuild the mortuary when necessary.
The patients' clothes as soon as they -were removed from their person were hand-
ed over to the sweepers, who washed them in a strong solution of Hydrargyri Per.-
chloride, after which they were rinsed in cold water and hung up to dry. They were
then collected in a room, whence the Dhobie had to remove them in order to wash
them thoroughly. I may add, that the clothes before being rinsed were allowed to
remain in the Corrosive sublimate solution for about 12 hours. Additional disinfec-
tion in the steam disinfector would no doubt have been an extra safeguard, but this
was not possible as our stock of clothing would not allow of the delay, which would
necessarily have followed such a proceeding.
The water-supply was derived from the Municipal main, a special connection
having been supplied for this purpose by the Municipality, As far as I can judge,
the water-supply has at all times been sufficient for all requirements.
The wards were daily disinfected by means of Perchloride and Carbolic acid so-
lution. Whenever a patient caused a mess on the floor, this was at once covered with
Carbolic Acid or Sanitas Powder, and removed when the spot was immediately disin-
fected with solution. The floor and walls were whitewashed as often as was possible,
at least however once a week.
On a death occurring, the patient was immediately wrapped up in a sheet, previ-
ously soaked in a strong solution of Perchloride. The body was then removed on its
cot to the mortuary, where it was drenched in a solution of Perchloride. The rela-
tives of the deceased were then at once notified, provided they were known, and the
body was handed to them for immediate removal either at once, or, if the death
occurred during the night, at daybreak next morning. The body was generally washed
by the relatives on the washing platform, for which purpose a plentiful supply of
disinfectants was always at their disposal. The usual funeral rites were then allowed
to be performed and the body removed. After this, the sheet, if the case was not of
a very virulent nature, was immersed in a strong corrosive sublimate solution, and