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No recent indents for instruments have been submitted as
the present ones although old aro serviceable. If, in the future,

major surgical work is anticipated, new instruments will have to be
obtained. A well appointed Operation Theatre now exists.
The following equipment was purchased for the hospital from
money available in the Hospital Voluntary Fund,
6 Godrej steel teds

6 Alwyn steel beds
1 2 horsepower Holden Brocks Centrifugal pump
1 Iron Fracture bed

2 Steel tanks for water storage.
1 Electrolux frigidaire
3 English white glazed sinks
Blankets, sheets, towels, pillows etc.

Pipes to connect the hospital with the main water supply are
on crier but have not been received, wire gauze for the wards has not
yet arrived. The Laboratory is now built and complete. Essential

furniture has been installed and lab orator* equipment purchased. These
expenses were also met from the above fund.
The hospital new has a total of 22 beds. 20 for Asiatics and
2 in a separate ward for Europeans.

In-patients are chiefly men from the Jus cat Infantry and Police.
Admission is open to all, but civilians, mostly merchants, prefer rooms
to themselves, and as the hospital has large open wards except for the

two small rooms not iaany are admitted.
Dieting of patients is either from their homes, or from the
Unit Lines. The Medical Officer in charge of the hospital diets from
his own kitchen those Europeans from the Merchant Navy, if admitted.

Staff
This remains as for the previous year, vizi- A Medical

Officer in charge, and Indian Assistant Surgeon, one locally trained
dispenser and three ward servants*

Quarantine