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Sites for
Camps.
Ellapa Balaram,
Gilder Street,
Victoria Bandar,
Worli Pakhadi,
UmarkkarL,
Grant Road,
Ghorupdeo.
Of the various campe that were erected, those marginally noted
were on private land. In the first two cases the
land belongs to Mr. Shivlal Motilal, whose great
liberality has enabled the Municipality to occupy it
till now at a nominal rent. The site at Victoria
Bandar belongs to the Colaba Land and Mills Com-
pany, and thanks are due to them for permitting the use of the land with-
out payment. Land at Worli was generously placed at the disposal of
the Municipality by Khan Saheb Mahomed Ibrahim though not used,
and no rent has been asked for by Mr. Dosabhoy Cooverji Doctor, .for
the site of the Jail Road camp at Umarkhari, or by Mr. Tribhuvaudas
Varjivandas, and Mr. Kaitaun Bastansing for the sites of two small camps
at Worli, Koliwada. In the other cases rent was fixed and paid.
The other camps were either on Municipal, Government, Port Trust
or Improvement Trust land. Government charged no rent ; the Port
Trust who originally charged full rates, eventually under pressure
from Government reduced their rents to 3/16 of the ordinary rates : the
Improvement Trust allowed the use of their property rent free, but
where the land had been let out to cultivators, the Municipality had to
pay them compensation.
This is a suitable point at which to acknowledge the great public spirit
of Sir Dinshaw Maneckji Petit, who has now for more than two years,
allowed the Plague Administration the free use of the large area of land
occupied by extensions of the Maratha Hospital, and of Shet Haji Ahmed
Nurani who has for a like period allowed the free use of the land occu-
pied by the Sunni Hospital, Ripon Road, and during the year gave an
additional piece for contact sheds. The generous loan by Mr. Mahomed
Casum Kurtay of his house in Ali, Umar Street as a place for segregation,
is also deserving of special mention.
Accommoda-
tion for cont-
acts. &c.,
at
Hospitals.
Great importance was attached to the provision of suitable accom-
modation for the families of patients in close proximity to the various
hospitals : and, towards the close of the monsoon this was arranged for
at Modykhana by the erection of a double row of huts, with accommo-
dation for 48 persons, just outside the hospital precincts. At the Arthur
Road Hospital no dry ground was available at that period, but three empty
wards were converted to the purpose in question. Subsequently when
the fair weather set in, 50 rooms were erected on low-lying ground close
by. The three wards had to be re-converted to hospital purposes ; but two-
of them were again made available for the friends and relatives of patients,
when at the close of the year, the approach of the monsoon necessitated
the demolition of the huts on the low-lying ground. Huts were provided
at the Mahommedan General Hospital when it was re-opened. A few huts
were from the first available at the Sunni Hospital, but these were added
to during the year under report. Similar accommodation was made avail-
able near the Sarvajanik Hospital, Government House, Parel, at the
Stuart Strong Hospital, Colaba, and at the Mahim Hospital constructed