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Besides the above paid staff, voluntary services were rendered by the following
members of the community —
Mr.
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V. A. J. Kirtikar,
S. N. Navalkar,
A. S. Nayak.
S. R. Dhairyawan.
R. D. Kirtikar.
Junior Medical Student.
Honorary Chief Superintendent.
Messrs. N. V. Dhurandhar and A. R. Ranjit also acted as volunteers -for some
time.
Description
of Hospital
Building's, &c.
The hospital is situated in the Churney Road Gardens. It consists of two Acute
Wards, two Observation Wards, one Convalescent Ward and one Dispensary.
All the above wards are pukka built, consisting of plank partitions and so con-
structed as to afford free light and ventilation. The Acute and Observation Wards
are large enough to accommodate 12 patients at a time while in the- Convalescent Ward
there is an accommodation for 12 patients besides.
Attached to the hospital and close to it are contact and segregation camps.
The contact camp, intended especially for those who attend on the plague
patients, consists of a block of six rooms (vide plan) enough to accommodate about
SO persons.
The segregation camp was intended for families who were removed from houses
where plague cases actually occurred, even though the persons attacked did not
actually belong to those families. This camp consists of 2 blocks each of 6 rooms
(vide plan) enough to accommodate 60 persons.
Besides contact and segregation camps, the Hospital had this year attached to
it two health camps, one on the Marine Lines and the other between the Churney
Road and Marine Lines Stations, for the use of such members of the Pathare Prabhu
Community as required immediate removal from infected localities. And the
Committee is glad to say that .it is on account of this valuable and timely addition
to the hospital, that the number of patients admitted this year was very low as com-
pared with the number admitted last year, and this in spite of increased virulence of
plague this year throughout the city and especially in localities occupied by the mem-
bers of the community.
In the opinion of the Medical Staff, even this number would have been still
]ower if the members of the community had taken due notice of the warning and
listened to the advice regarding the timely removal to health camps, given to them
long before the last recrudescence of the epidemic.
Conservancy.
Attached to the Hospital, contact and segregation camps, there were five
latrines besides the urinals, and these were connected with masonry built cesspools
which were cleaned every morning and evening by bhangies attached to the hospital.
Special care was taken to keep them quite clean and disinfectants were freely used.
Water-supply.
Disinfection
of Wards, &c.
Two taps were supplied within the compound by the plague authorities.
Utmost cleanliness was. observed in wards. Floors and walls were constantly
lime-washed, strong solutions of perchloride of mercury or phenyle being added
to the lime-wash. Carbolic powder was also used for sprinkling over the floors.
Besides the above disinfectants, lysol solution was also used for washing hands, &c.
Sputa and excreta were thoroughly disinfected, and all the dressings and highly
infected clothing removed from the patient immediately after admission, were burnt.
The hospital clothing used for a plague patient was, immediately on removal, first kept