6                              VACCINATION AND DISPENSARIES IN RAJPUTANA.

39. The Residency Surgeon, Jaipur writes that Calf Vaccine Lymph was
manufactured at the Mayo Hospital Bacteriological Laboratory, Jaipur and
the result was good as 235 vaccinations were done with vaccine paste prepared
from buffalo calf out of which 206 were successful. With a small extra cost
it would be supplied all over the district to do away with arm to arm
vaccination.

                        SECTION II.—DISPENSARIES.

                                   STATEMENT I.

                            Number of Dispensaries.

40.  The year opened with 170 hospitals and dispensaries in Rajputana
and closed with 175 an increase of six and decrease of one. Six new
dispensaries were opened during the year, four of them in Bharatpur,
viz., one at Bareta, one at Sewar, one Agency Hospital and one Raj
Forces Hospital, one railway dispensary at Churu in Bikaner and one
dispensary at Untala in Mewar. The Northern India Salt Revenue Dispensary
at Didwana was closed on the 1st January 1912.

41.  On the abolition of the office of the Agency Surgeon, Haraoti and
Tonk on the 11th March 1912, the charge of the medical arrangements of the
Tonk State was transferred to the Residency Surgeon, Jaipur, that of the
Shahpura Chiefship to the Residency Surgeon, Mewar and of Bundi to the
Agency Surgeon, Haraoti, Kotah.

42. The dispensaries are classified as under :—

43. Besides these there are now seven Mission Dispensaries; in 1911 there
were eight. One dispensary at Beawar appears to have been closed in 1912.
The number of Railway Dispensaries on the Rajputana-Malwa Railway and
Nagda-Muttra Railway within Rajputana limits is the same as in the previous
year.

Improvements and Additions to Hospitals and
Dispensaries.

44. Ajmer.—A sum of R509 was
spent owing to certain alterations and
repairs on the dispensary building at
Kekri in Ajmer.

45.  Bikaner.—A new female Hospital and also one for the Imperial
Service Troops are nearing completion.

46.  The Kotah Darbar contemplate building a new dispensary at Baran
in place of the old one and on a more suitable site, and a new one at Kishan-
gunj the present dispensary there being in a dilapidated condition.

47.   Udaipur.—A scheme for the erection of a new up-to-date Hospital
outside the city in place of the present Lansdowne Hospital, Udaipur has been
submitted and is still under the consideration of the Mewar Darbar.

48.  On November 14th, 1912 the Hospital was honoured by a visit from
His Excellency Lord Hardinge, the Viceroy of India.

49.  The sum of R1,286 was spent in effecting improvements and
additions to the buildings of the Mayo Hospital, Jaipur.

50.  The new cottage block built at a cost of R6,766-1-3 as a memorial to
late Sir Curzon Wyllie at Jaipur was completed and opened by Her Excellency
Lady Hardinge on 21st November 1912. This memorial is a touching
testimony to the affection which His Highness the Maharaja bore towards Sir
Curzon Wyllie whose name was a household word in Rajputana as expressed