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Hospital. To minimise the expenditure of tube well water, action is
being initiated to have all automatic flushes converted into control
flushes.

The Superintendent, Mental Hospital, Tadagale, estimates the
average daily consumption at 96,000 gallons of water against a daily yield
by tube wells of 85,000 gallons.

The daily average quantity of water taken from the Corporation
Main was 24,000 gallons from 28th November to 17th December 1928.
No water was obtained through this source till the end of the year.
The daily average varies to some extent with the seasons of the year.

14. Garden and Dairy.—Vegetables obtained from the Hospital
gardens were varied and of good quality and met the requirements of
patients. The health of the patients is partly due to the fresh vegetables.
The surplus quantity was sold to the staff and public.

The value of the vegetable produce is :—

Receipts from dairy amount to Rs. 5,516-5-6 and expenditure
Rs. 5,990-9-4. The excess of expenditure over receipts was due to extra
expenditure on rations for calves ; previously such animals were sold at
once instead of being retained.

15.  Diets.—The scale of diets remained the same and a variety was
issued keeping, however, within the sanctioned scale. Special diets
were issued on festival days and on such special occasions as the annual
sports, etc. Raw and cooked rations are daily examined by the Deputy
Superintendent.

16.  Amusement and Recreation.—A band played once a month,
Burma Railways Battalion A.F.I. and Rangoon City Police alternately
weather permitting. These were Rangoon Corporation fixtures. Pwes
were conducted every month and each section is provided with a
gramaphone, appropriate musical instruments, books, journals and dailies.
Out-door and in-door games, football, chinlon, badminton, etc., were
played with much benefit. The usual annual sports were held, and
the winners were gratified by money prizes and sweets and special meals;
fruits, sweets, aerated waters, cigars and cigarettes were served on
special occasions of the sort.

Well-behaved and harmless patients were permitted to visit relatives
and friends and to go to bazaars, bioscopes, churches and pagodas
with necessary escort.