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Building.
Hie Hospital building ?s situated at Connaught Koad, Byculla. There are
fourteen blocks' occupying an area of an acre of Municipal ground which has been
given to &ie Hospital by the kind Municipal Commissioner, to whom the thanks
of the Committee are due.
The blocks comprising the Hospital are as follows :—
1. Acute Watrd
1 block divided into two wards,
one for the maJles apd the
other for the females.
2. Convalescent Ward ...
...
.,.1 block as above,
3. Observation Ward
...
...
.,. 1 block as above.
4. Mortuary
...
...
...
...2 rooms.
5. Dispensary & Hospital Asstt. Quarters 1 block with 3 rooms.
6. Servants' Quarters
...
...
... 2 blocks with 7 rooms.
7. Office
1 block.
8. Contacts and Segregation Sheds
... 5 blocks with 30 rooms.
9. Latrines
.,.
...
...
... 2 blocks with 6 seats.
It is noteworthy that many who accommodated themselves in the segregation
camp found themselves so comfortably lodged lhat they stayed for months and
would not go back till they were forced.
Latrines.—The latrines consist of two blocks, one for the Hospital and the other
for contacts. There are 6 seats. It is treated twice a day with 15 per cent,
carbolic powder. There is strict supervision over it of a Municipal Health Inspector,
Pipes.—Two stand-pipes are provided in the Hospital compound, one for the
sick and one for contacts. The waste water is conveyed to the immediate- main
drain on the northern side.
Disinfectants.—The wards are treated twice daily with a solution of perchloride
of mercury lr-1000 and washed weekly with chloride of lime 5 per cent. Solution
of carbolic acid is used for general purposes, such as washing hands, (&c., so also
phenol solution and carbolic powder 15 per cent, is used for disinfecting latrines
and ground surrounding the wards.
Mortuary.—As soon as death occurs the body is removed to the mortuary which
is situated on the east side. After performing religious ceremonies the body being
dressed in new clothes is removed as early as possible to the burial ground by contacts
who are segregated for 12 days.
Funeral expenses ot paupers are defrayed from the hospital funds.
A solution of perchloride of mercury is sprinkled in the morning, and
phenyle in the evening daily on the ground floors of the wards, and all the floors are
lime-washed every tenth day. All the floors of the wards are scraped every month
and dirt burnt; new earth being placed and the floors are limewashed.
No clothings are sent to the steam-disinfector, but care is taken to saturate all
cloths, blankets, sheets, &c., with 1 per cent, solution, of perchloride of mercury, then
exposed to sun till dry and subsequently washed by the Halaloore, and when dry
are given to the dhobi for rewashing. Bags, hospital dressings, patients' clothes and
clothes considered to be dirty are destroyed by fire. Even amongst the contacts
and persons in the health camps, great care is taken to strictly enforce this rule.
Inoculation.—There were 6 persons inoculated with Hafikine's serum admitted
into the hospital; full particulars are given below :—
(a) Ezekiel Samson, male, 27 years, carpenter, living at Chinchpoogli in
the Jewish burial ground. Inoculated on 9th October, was attacked