DISPENSARIES IN RAJPUTANA.
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Warrant Officers.
129. Honorary Captain W. Thomson, I.S.M.D. (retired), was on plague duty
at Ajmer and Dr. D. G. Newland, L.R.C.P.
and S., Edinburgh, at Abu Road through-
out the year.
130. Military Assistant Surgeons.—Assistant Surgeon H. F. de Penning
was deputed for plague duty in Ajmer-Merwara from 6th December 1909.
Assistant Surgeon A. W. Dyer was in charge of the Northern India Salt
Revenue Dispensary at Sambhar up to 12th November 1909, when he went on
three months' privilege leave. Assistant Surgeon R. J. K. Stone, I.S.M.D., took
over charge of that dispensary on the forenoon of the 19th December 1909.
131. Civil Assistant Surgeons.—There were five Government Assistant
Surgeons, two employed in the Ajmer-Merwara district, one at Jaipur, one at
Khetri and one at Bharatpur.
132. The six Assistant Surgeons who were on the unpensionable graded
list are now purely Darbar servants and their names have been expunged from
the Government list.
133. Military Hospital Assistants.—There were ten Military Hospital
Assistants employed with the Imperial Service Corps in Rajputana as in the
previous year in the following regiments :—
Alwar 1st Lancers . .
Alwar Fatteh Paltan . .
Bharatpur Transport . .
2
2
2
Bharatpur Infantry . .
Jaipur Transport . . .
Bikaner Camel Corps . .
2
1
1
Civil Hospital Assistants.
134. On the 31st December 1909, 188 Government Hospital Assistants
were on the rolls against the sanctioned strength of 194, there being six
vacancies, three on Government Reserve List and three on Native States
Reserve List. These vacancies, it is hoped, will be filled up from pupils at the
Agra Medical School, five of whom should pass out in May. Out of 194
Hospital Assistants, 23 were permanently
employed by the British Government and
171 lent to Native States. There are now only three local class Native
Doctors and one locally entertained Hospital Assistant under this Department
in Native States, against four and one respectively in 1908. The appointment
of one Native Doctor was struck off the sanctioned strength owing to the
transfer of the Pokaran Dispensary to the Thakur Sahib as a private institution.
135. Lady Doctors.—There were six Lady Doctors employed in the follow-
ing States in Rajputana as in the previous year :—
Jodhpur
.
.
.
.
Kotah
.
.
.
.
Jaipur
.
.
.
.
1
1
1
Tonk . . . . . .
Alwar . . . . .
Udaipur
.
.
.
.
1
1
1
136. Female Hospital Assistants.—There were 11 Female Hospital Assist-
ants attached to the female hospitals and women's wards against 12 in 1908.
Owing to local objections and on financial grounds, the Female Dispensary at
Karauli was closed and the services of the Female Hospital Assistant in charge
were dispensed with from the 17th September 1909.
FEMALE HOSPITALS AND DHAI CLASS FOR WOMEN.
137. Ajmer.—During the year under report no qualified Female Hospital
Assistant was appointed to the medical charge of the female wards of the
Victoria Hospital, Ajmer, for want of funds.
138. Beawar.—Female Hospital Assistant Mrs. J. Martin was in charge
of the female ward of the Charitable Dispensary throughout the year. There
was slight decrease in the number of both in and out-door patients treated as
compared with the figures in 1908, which is due to plague in Merwara.
139. The returns received from the female hospitals in Native States of
Rajputana show on the whole an increase of work done during the year under
report in these institutions.
140. Alwar.—Miss V. A. Turkhud, M.B., B.S.C., was in charge of the
Dufferin Hospital at Alwar till the 14th February 1909, when she resigned and
was relieved by Female Hospital Assistants Balabai and Sugnabai. Miss
T. Canagasaby, L.R.C.P. and S., was appointed as Lady Superintendent to the
hospital from the 13th April 1909 and is still in charge. There were 300 in