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      (iv) Provision of a new dispensary block at Mukerian in the
         Hoshiarpur district.

      (v) Construction of the Teka Devi Health and ante-clinic centre in
         association with the Lady Willingdon Hospital, Lahore.

      (vi) Construction of a new hospital at Phalia by the Red Cross
         Society, Punjab Branch.

   Bihar.—As a result of the devasting earthquake of 1934, several
hospitals in Bihar were almost completely destroyed. Among these were
the Bettiah Raj Hospital, the Purnea District Hospital, the Motihari.
District Hospital, the Darbhanga District Hospital, the Sitamarhi Sub-
divisional Hospital and the Madhubani Subdivisional Hospital. Complete
reconstruction has been necessary in the case of the six above named
hospitals. At Bettiah a new hospital building has been completed at a
cost of Rs. 6 lakhs; every effort has been made to make it one of the
best designed and best equipped hospitals in India and the Bettiah
Hospital for Women has also been enlarged. The plans and estimates for
the rebuilding of the Purnea and Motihari District Hospitals were ready
in 1937, though building operations had by then been started in the case
of the former only. The new Darbhanga Hospital was expected to be
ready for occupation by March 1938, and it has cost Rs. 7½ lakhs to build
it. The Madhubani Subdivisional Hospital has been rebuilt, while the
Sitamarhi hospital was still under construction in 1937. A new District
Hospital has been built at Hazaribagh to replace the older one. In
addition to these, several small District Board dispensaries that had been
destroyed by the earthquake of 1934 have been or are being reconstructed.
Besides, there has been general progress throughout the province and
hospital buildings are being improved every year.

   Central Provinces and Berar.—In the Central Provinces and Berar
modern up-to-date hospital for women was built at Khamgaon at a cost of
Rs. 1½ lakhs in 1936. In 1937 schemes were ready for the building of a
modern hospital in connection with the Countess of Dufferin's Hospital Fund
Scheme at Amraoti at a cost of about Rs. 2 lakhs and the Lady Elgin
Hospital for Women and Children at Jubbulpore at a cost of about over
Rs. 2 lakhs.

   Assam.—The largest major work carried out in 1936 in Assam was
the construction of a new hospital and a dispensary building at Sadiya
at an estimated cost of Rs. 77,548 with staff quarters. A mater-
nity and gynæcological ward attached to the Dibrugarh Civil
Hospital has been constructed at an approximate cost of Rs. 26,800. One
of the important construction works executed in 1936 was the enlarge-
ment of the anatomy department in the Berry-White Medical School,
Dibrugarh.

   Orissa.—In Orissa a children's ward with four beds and a Nursing
Home with accommodation for three patients were added to the Cuttack
General Hospital. Septic, tuberculosis and female wards were added to
the Sadr Hospital, Balasore. In the same district new dispensary build-
ings were put up at Soro, Jellasore and Ballipal.