6                                            DISPENSARIES IN RAJPUTANA.

45.  The Southern Rajputana States Agency Hospital, which was shown
formerly as a Native State institution, has now become a Government one.

46.  Besides these there are now seven Mission Hospitals and eight Rail-
way Dispensaries.

Improvements and additions to Hospitals and
Dispensaries.

47.  The construction of a new dispensary building at Kishanganj has been
sanctioned by the Kotah Durbar and
material is being collected for the same.

48.   Udaipur.—Some minor improvements have been carried out in the
Lansdowne Hospital, Udaipur. The Hospital has been furnished with some
more modern surgical instruments and appliances. A scheme for the erection
of a new up-to-date Hospital outside the city, in place of the present Lansdowne
Hospital, is still under the consideration of the Mewar Durbar.

49.  Jaipur.—The sum of R5,152 was spent in effecting improvements and
additions to the buildings of the Mayo Hospital, Jaipur, and the Curzon Wyllie
Memorial Wards.

                                        STATEMENT B.

                                    Attendance at Hospitals.

50.  During the year 1913 the number of patients treated at State public,
State special, and private non-aided, i.e., Native State Dispensaries and
Hospitals, amounted to 1,470,483 against 1,500,960 in 1912 which shows a
decrease of 30,477 owing to the healthiness of the year. The total in-door
attendance fell from 19,233 in 1912 to 18,664 in 1913, and the out-door atten-
dance decreased to 1,451,819 from 1,481,727 in 1912. The ratio of deaths per
cent. to total cases treated also fell to 2.99 in 1913 as compared with 3.31 in
the previous year.

                            STATEMENTS C (i) AND C (ii).

                                        Diseases treated.

51.  In Statement (i) the number of deaths under each head of diseases
treated in the in-door department is shown; 18,664 in-patients were treated
with a mortality of 550 against 19,233 in-patients and 636 deaths in 1912.

52.  153 normal confinements with no deaths and 123 abnormal con-
finements with 10 deaths were reported from the various hospitals, as compared
with 145 with 3 deaths and 88 with 6 deaths respectively in 1912.

53.  1,451,651 out-door patients treated in 1913 are shown in Statement
C (ii) against 1,481,727. The cases treated in the hospitals and dispensaries in
Rajputana under each chief disease during the year 1912 and 1913 are as
follows : —

Diseases.

1912.

1913.

Malarial fever . . . . . .

187,071

182,189

Diseases of the eye . . . . . .

231,917

233,635

Dysentery and Diarrhœa . . . . . .

51,706

47,208

Ulcers . . . . . . .

151,138

137,390

Skin diseases . . . . .

232,935

213,328

Syphilis . . . . .

19,251

17,361

Injuries . . . . ..

36,531

41,453

Tubercle of the lung . . . .

1,217

1,577

Abscess of the liver . . . .

274

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