6       REPORT ON SANITATION, DISPENSARIES AND JAILS IN RAJPUTANA FOR 1926

The main operation theatre has been extended by two rooms and a gable top
projection chamber to admit more light for finer operations.

Electric light and fans have been provided to all the Wards and buildings.

One of the blocks of the Lady Hardinge Memorial has been paved with marble.

New quarters were built for the House Surgeon, Mayo Hospital, at a cost of
Rs. 8,000.

58.   Udaipur.—Lansdowne Hospital.

Electric light has been installed in the hospital during the year and it is hoped
that electric fans will be shortly installed.

59.  Kotah.—A new line of six cottage wards at. the City Hospital, Kotah,
which was under construction last year, was completed during the year and taken
over for work. These are excellent for their work.

The following new buildings were sanctioned for the district dispensaries
during the year :—

Constructing two rooms with corrugated Iron Sheet Verandah on the upper
floor, and covering space between cook room and stable with corrugated Iron
Sheeting as well as constructing a three seated latrine at the residence of the Assist-
ant Surgeon, Baran.

60.  Jhalawar State.—The dispensary at Patan has been transferred from the
old building to a new one built on modern lines, the opening ceremony of which
was performed by the Jhalawar Durbar on the 17th February 1926.

This institution has since been named as Balchand Hospital.

61.  Khewara.—Mewar Bhil Corps Hospital.

Improvements have been done to the out-houses and Godown attached to the
Hospital.

                                          STATEMENT B.

                                   Attendance at Hospitals.

62.  During the year under report the number of patients treated at State
Public, State Special and Private non-aided (i.e., Indian States) Dispensaries and
Hospitals amounted to 2,045,156 against 1,785,393 in 1925 shewing an increase of
259,763, which is attributed partly to opening of two new dispensaries in the
Jaipur State and three in the Bikaner State and for the most part to abnormal
increase in the number of Malaria, Eye disease and Ulcer cases in almost all the
Indian States and the district of Ajmer-Merwara in consequence of heavy rainfall.
There was however a decrease of 10,946 patients in the number of patients treated
in the dispensaries of Bharatpur State which is stated to be due to healthy season
in the State.

63.  Out of the total number of patients treated 24,964 were indoor and
2,020,192 outdoor as compared with 23,054 indoor and 1,762,349 outdoor in 1925.

The number of deaths rose from 745 in 1925 to 871 in 1926 and the ratio of
death from 3.23 per cent. in 1925 to 3.48 in 1926.

                            STATEMENT C(I) AND C(II).

                                   Diseases Treated.

64.  In Statement C(I) the number of deaths under each head of diseases treat-
ed in the indoor department is shewn ; 24,961 in-patients were treated with a
mortality of 871 against 23,054 in-patients and 745 deaths in 1925.

65.  56 Normal confinements with no death and 81 Abnormal confinements
with 7 deaths were reported from various Hospitals as compared with 41 with one
death and 78 with 10 deaths in 1925.