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   Ajmer-Merwara.—A new out-patients department capable of dealing
with 500 out-patients, with accommodation for veneral diseases, tuber-
culosis, ophthalmology and anti-rabic departments, has recently been
added to the Victoria Hospital, Ajmer.

7. NURSING HOMES.

   Few private Nursing Homes exist in India except in Calcutta, Madras
and Bombay. In the last named, where there is a large and increasing
demand for hospital maternity accommodation for all classes of people,
the number of small, often badly equipped and indifferently managed
homes calls for some form of supervision. The Provincial Medical
Department has recommended legislation on the lines of the Nursing
Homes Registration Act of Great Britain, which provides for registration
and inspection.

8. X-RAY AND RADIUM FACILITIES.

   Adequate facilities for Radium treatment do not exist in India, for
while no such facilities exist in the United Provinces, Central Provinces,
North-West Frontier Province, Baluchistan and Coorg, the following table
indicates the limited extent to which they exist in the other provinces.