17.4
Wards.
The wards are constructed of teak and bamboo supports, the sides of double
bamboo matting and roof of cudjan or jowli, and rendered waterproof with tarpau-
lins. Two of the wards have canvas ceilings. All the wards are ventilated from
below by means of one-foot frame, made to be opened up or let down as required.
There is also about a foot of open space in each ward between the roof and the sides.
The floor is raised so as to form a plinth of about 8 inches in height, and is made of
a mixture of earth and fine charcoal dust well beaten down.
Every shed is, at intervals, limewashed both inside and out.
All the cooking places, as well as the Dhobies' lliuthee shed, are made com-
pletely of corrugated iron, to prevent the risk of fire.
Four of the wards are provided each with a bath-room with concrete floor
and a stand-pipe. This arrangement is found to be more convenient and satisfactory
than having stand-pipes outside in the compound. These four wards have been
reserved as follows :—
1 Acute Male Plague Ward.
1 Female Ward.
1 Male Observation Ward.
1 Male Convalescent Ward.-
The remaining three wards were only used during the height of the epidemic for the
accommodation of the increased number of male and female convalescents.
Dispensary,
The dispensary is provided with a stand-pipe, and furnished with medicines
likely to be useful in a plague hospital.
Servants'
quarters.
Servants' quarters consist of two long sheds, and provided with chullas out-
side; no servants being allowed to cook inside their rooms.
Contact shed.
There is a large contact shed with rooms, with accommodation for about 50
contacts ; it has its own washing place with a stand pipe and a kitchen exclusively
for the use of the contacts.
Dhobies'
washing place.
There is a tank and a washing place built, and reserved exclusively for the
use of the hospital dhobies; and also an arrangement for their bhuthee or oven. All
the hospital clothing is washed on the premises.
Conservancy
Surplus Water.
4. Conservancy—All the surplus water from the various stand-pipes of the
wards, kitchens and cooking-places is carried away into the sea by means of open
drains constructed of 4" stone-ware half pipes laid on a foundation of concrete.
Ward
Conservancy.
The contents of bed-pans are emptied into pails containing a solution of
phenyle and provided with lids. These pails are regularly emptied into a night-soil
cart specially provided for the use of the hospital, and which makes daily two trips
to the nearest dep6t to discharge its contents.
Xiatrines and
disposal of
sewage.
The Latrine is six-seated ; two seats being reserved for females and four for
males. The night soil is received into iron receptacles, from which the solid portion is
removed to the conservancy cart, twice daily in cold season, and three times in the hot
weather. Until March 1899, the liquid portion of the night-soil was allowed to run
into a cesspool which was emptied every morning. This plan, however, was found to
be much objectionable. The cesspool was consequently done away with, and the
liquid sewage ia now made to run directly into the main drain.
Watorsupply.
5 Water-Supply is derived from Tansa and Tulsi Lakes.