DISPENSARIES AND JAILS IN RAJPUTANA.                                  11

                        RAILWAY HOSPITALS.

99. There were 797 in and 32,304 out-door patients treated and 636
operations performed during the year under report in six Railway dispensaries
on the Rajputana-Malwa Railway within the limits of Rajputana as per detail
below :—

100. One thousand three hundred patients were visited at their homes at
Ajmer by the Railway Medical Staff.

                              INSPECTIONS.

101. The Residency Surgeon and Chief Medical Officer in Rajputana
inspected the hospitals and dispensaries during the past season in the cities
noted below :—

Udaipur, Ajmer, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Bharatpur, Dig, Dholpur, Karauli,
Hindaun, Kotah, Jhalawar, Tonk, Kishangarh, Alwar and Abu
Road.

                                    JAILS.

102.  Ajmer.—Although the daily average number of prisoners in the
Ajmer Jail fell from 358.54 in 1908 to 340.45 in 1909, the total number of cases
admitted into hospital rose from 123 in 1908 to 175, the daily average sick
from 5.08 to 5.93, the mortality from 5 to 7 and the ratio per mille of average
strength from 13.95 to 20.56, which is largely due to the prevalence of malaria
during rainy season. Plague was guarded against by a ten days' quarantine on
all newly arrived prisoners. Those who were thought likely to have been
exposed to infection were inoculated.

103.  Prophylactic doses of 15 grains of quinine weekly were given to all
prisoners during October and November as a prophylactic against malaria.

104.  Of the 7 deaths which occurred among convicts and under-trials
against 5 in the previous year, 4 were due to pneumonia, 1 to acute catarral
bronchitis, 1 to acute obstruction due to biliary calculi and 1 rupture of
spleen.

105. The review by the Commissioner, Ajmer-Merwara, on the strength,
classification, health, employment and conduct of prisoners, nature of
sentences, jail manufactures and expenditure of the Ajmer Jail is given as
Appendix A of the Report, together with statements.

Native Slates.

106.  The daily average number of prisoners in the jails in the Native
States fell from 4,289.90 in 1908 to
4,194.91 in 1909, the number of admis-
sions to hospitals from 2,484 to 1,726 and the daily average number of sick
from 99.87 to 7699.

107.  There was no cholera or other epidemic diseases in any of the jails
in Rajputana in 1909.

108.  Jaipur.—There has been no overcrowding in the Central Jail
throughout the year. The daily average sick rose from 9.85 in 1908 to 11.81
in 1909, mortality from 11 to 15 and ratio per mille of average strength from
20.85 to 30.25 ; this increase is due to prevalence of malarial fever and bowel
complaints.

109.  In the District Jail there is also increase under these heads as com-
pared with the previous year.

110.  Steady improvement in the condition of prisoners and in the manage-
ment of these jails are being made under the superintendence of Rai Sahib
Nowrang Rai, Superintendent of Jails.