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Contact sheds are pucca-built rooms on the ground floor of the middle building.
The number occupying them was 210.
4. The latrines are situated between the rooms (but at a distance behind them,)
on the side not facing the sea. They are two on the ground floor and two on the
first floor both in acute and convalescent wards. They are large, Pucca-built, well-
ventilated, kept always clean by resident sweepers, and thoroughly disinfected by
phenyle solution.
The excreta (motions) of plague patients as well as urine, vomit, &c., are
carried immediately by sweepers in tin or earthen chatties. They are previously
washed either with iodine or phenyle solution, and sprinkled over inside with carbolic
powder. The excreta, &c., are thrown into the latrines which are then well-cleaned
with water and thoroughly disinfected with phenyle or carbolic or permanganate of
potash solution. Sewage and sullage are carried by underground drains.
There are four seats in the acute cases ward and four in convalescent ward and
contact sheds.
As regards disinfection of clothes by sweepers previous to washing by Dhobies,
the clothes are first dipped and well-washed with phenyle solution or perchloride
of Hg. solution ; then they are exposed to the sun and dried and afterwards given tp
Dhobies.
5. Water-supply is from the pipe.
6. The wards and other buildings are first wetted with perchloride of mercury
solution (1 in 1,000). Then they are exposed to the sun and allowed to dry. They
are afterwards swept properly. The walls and floor are then lime-washed, and
carbolic powder is thrown about here and there.
Clothes were never sent to the Steam Disinfector. Phenyle, carbolic, iodine or
permanganate of potash solutions were used for washing away any portion of the
room soiled with foul excretions or dirt.
7. Dead bodies are carried in a coffin to the Borah Cemetery, situated rather
behind, but more on the left side of the hospital. Bodies are besmeared with camphor
and other solutions holding some incense, &c., in accordance with the usual Borah
practice of disposing of the dead bodies. The mortuary is a large, open and wide space
behind, but at a sufficient good distance from the hospital. Pauper patients after death
were buried, like other ordinary burials, at the expense of Mr. Adamji Peerbhoy.
8. No inoculation was reported to have been done previous to admissions, except
in a case of a Mahomedan male, aged 20, who had come to hospital from Dharavi.
He was inoculated (but not in full dose) before he was attacked. The date of the ino-
culation could not be obtained. His attack ended fatally after four days. His name was
Bahadur Khan Jeeva Khan. He was admitted on 6th November 1898 at 10 A. M.,
and he died on 10th November at 3 P. M. His left parotid gland was enlarged. It was
informed that he was attacked four days before his admission. He was once in the
hospital on 25th August 1898, and was discharged cured after 36 days on 1st October
1898. The enlarged gland was in the left loin.
9. There was no sickness or mortality in the regular staff of the hospital.
Amongst contacts, there was an attack three days after admission of a female patient,
aged ] 4. The attacked person was a male, aged 40, by name Rajbhai. He was the father
of the above mentioned female. The daughter had developed multiple buboes, but she
recovered while the father died on the fifth day of the attack.