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The following is a list of the members of the Managing Committee of the
Hospital :—
Rao Bahadur Vasanii Khimji, J.P. ...
The District Officer, F. and G. Wards
Lakamsi Napoo, Esq., J.P.
Mr. J. F. Madan
Khan Saheb Shaik Adam Yusufbhai
Dangers! Bhimji, Esq., J.P
Rao Saheb A. N. Dalvi
Mr. V. R. Luxmonjee
,, W. R. Jayaker
<,, Rowji Raghuuathjee
„ Adam Abba Patel ...
Chairman.
Ex-officio Member.
Honorary Treasurer.
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Honorary Secretary.
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The staff of the Hospital during the year under report consisted of one hospital
assistant, one lady nurse, one compounder, 4 ward boys, 2 ayahs, 2 sweepers,
1 dhobi, 1 cook, 1 peon and 2 ramosis. The Municipality supplied furniture,
clothing, water, medicines, and disinfectants, while the Committee defrayed the
expenses on account of provisions and other stores, and paid the wages of the staff,
except the lady nurse whose services were kindly lent by Government, and .the
ramosis who were paid by the Municipality.
The patients were permitted to remain under the treatment of their own doctor or
vaids, the hospital authorities providing food and all necessary things, but they scarcely
took any advantage of this concession, as most of them were very poor. The hospital
assistant was now and then assisted by the Sectional Medical Officer, and the
•warmest gratitude of the Committee is due to those Medical Officers under the
Municipality who gave their advice as to treatment of patients, disinfection, etc., and
to their Chairman, Rao Bahadur V. Khimji, for his untiring energy and labours in
supervising the work of the hospital staff, which contributed to the success of the
hospital to no small extent.
The Committee again takes this opportunity of tendering their hearty
thanks to the Bombay Improvement Trust for the use of their ground free of charge,
to the Government for the services of a lady nurse, to the Municipal authorities
for the supply of stores, medicines and furniture, and to those gentlemen who have
subscribed so freely and willingly to the hospital fund. The hospital sheds and
other necessary buildings were all erected on the same site and on the same place
as last year, and there was proper arrangement in every shed for ground and ridge
ventilation. The partitions between the rooms in each shed were about 8 feet high.
Separate cook-rooms were provided for all castes. But the most important feature
dif the hospital was the provision of a separate room for each patient, which,
together with the principle of allowing two friends or relatives of patients to be
always present, and of allowing others to visit them whenever they wished, h-ad a
very beneficial effect on the minds of the patients suffering from this fell disease.
There was one block of latrine made of corrugated iron, consisting of five seats.
Two seats were reserved for women and three for men. The sewage was removed by
sweepers in the ordinary way and emptied into a sewage cart placed on the out-
bkirts of the Parel village. Under no circumstances were patients permitted to use
the latrines used by the staff. They used bed-pans near their beds, and proper
disinfection was carried out previous to disposal of the motions.
All clothes on being removed from the hospital were taken to the outer
compound and placed in large tubs with a strong solution of carbolic acid. After
being soaked for 24 hours they were laid or hung out in the sun, and then handed
over to the Dhobi.