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in a room of the convalescent ward, day and night, and works as ,a resident officer
superintending the diet and other necessaries of plague patients. The remaining
persons of the hospital staff are :
Clerk
Sweepers (Bhungee)
Gardener (Mallee)
Ramosee, Bhaya ...
Dhobie
...
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Servant (to keep the hospital clean)
1
... 1
... 2
... 6
... 2
.. 2
... 1
... 1
... 1
... 1
(and two when more work.)
Male and female.
There are no donations to the hospital. Mr. Adamji is willing to carry out the
expenses of the hospital himself.
3. The hospital buildings are situated on Queen's Road, just opposite Churney
Road Station facing the sea. As already stated, these buildings form two-thirds of
the sanitarium, converted into hospital for plague purposes. The sanitarium, opened at a
great expense by Mr. Adamji from pure motives of charity to his own sect, is built upon
the best sanitary principles as regards free and thorough ventilation of the buildings
on all sides and of each of the rooms constituting it. It is divided into three parts or
buildings, each being separated from the other by a very broad open passage leading
to the Queen's Road. Each building consists of a ground floor and a first floor with a
wide extensive verandah serving as a roof. Its plinth is considerably high and it has
a small verandah on the ground floor on the side of the sea. It consists both on
the ground and first floors of two rows of rooms with a wide, free open passage between
them. The rooms are large, commodious, thoroughly exposed to the fresh sea-breeze
and to the benign rays of the suu. Their walls and floor are pucca chunam-built.
Each room has two large, wide windows with shutters and a door or two of such good
height and width, and so built that the air passes very freely and unopposed in and
out and is conveyed to all the parts of the room. The rooms on the side of the sea (8
in number) are greater in area than those of the opposite side, (7 in number)
but all of them are large in all their dimensions. Each room on the side of the sea can
hold two or three patients (large three, and small two), with perfect freedom and great
convenience, while one, on the other side, can accommodate one patient with ease and
comfort. Added to these buildings is a mosque for devotional purposes. The portion
next to the mosque is kept for hospital use as a ward for acute cases. The first floor of
the middle building is utilised as a convalescent ward, while the rooms on the ground
floor are used for contacts. On the back of these buildings is an open, wide compound in
one comer of which, behind the mosque, are situated 6 rooms. They serve as kitchen
and store rooms. Behind the compound is an old Borah mortuary not now in use.
There is a well and a garden in the hospital compound. There is accommodation
made for Dhobies to wash hospital clothes close to the hospital. There are small
tanks built for storing up water, there are also water pipes.
Dispensary.—The two rooms on the first floor of the ward for acute cases are
made use of as Dispensary and Medical Officer's room. Dispensary contains
European medicines and ordinary surgical appliances and instruments.
The servants (ward-boys), after work, retire to rest on the open verandah
above the first floor of the building. They have no separate quarters for them. They
are fed at the expense of the hospital in the hospital compound. The gardener, how-
ever, has wooden-built quarters allotted to him.