Triennial report on the civil hospitals and dispensaries in the Bombay Province.

  • Bombay (India)
Date:
[1941]
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Credit: Triennial report on the civil hospitals and dispensaries in the Bombay Province. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    35. The1 total number of institutions open at the beginning of the4 triennium was 450. During tbe triennium 285 new institutions were* opened, tbe names of 36 institutions were added to tbe report as tbeir returns were received only from tbis triennium though they were old ones and 27 were closed. After omitting five institutions in the Persian- Gulf, they being foreign ones, the number of institutions open on 31st December 1944 was 739,. Statement Zb 36'. The following tab’e. shows the distribution of Medical Officers (including Honorary Medical Officers) Nurses, Midwives, Dais and Compounders in the several: classes of institutions and the Subsidised Medical Practit oners employed in the Province under the Rural Medical Relief Scheme, during' the year 1941 and' the Provincial totals for the. last- two years in this triennium, mean for the triennium under report and for the last' triennium. ♦ Class of Institutions. Medical ()ffieers. Nurses. Mid- Wives., . Pais. Com¬ pounders. Class I-State Pu blic 372 600 s 1 33 1 ': . a [- 77 _ Class 11-State Special 15 11 o' * V CF< & Class I El-Local and Municipal Funds. 448 275- « 175 46 376 i Class IV-Private-aided 83 57 18 6 ■ ■ 40 Class V-Pnrate-non-aidcd ... 173 211 4T 73 . Class VI-Raihvays 79 31 1 1 5tv‘ Class VlloSubsidised 270 .. r4. x Total (1941) ... 1,440 1,185 274 70 630 Total (1940) -. ] ,356 1,050 241 7,9 611 Total (1939) .. 1,211. 858 257' 68 608- Mean for the triennium— • 1939-41 4,336 1,031 257 7-5- 616 1936-1938 956 % 745 164 | 73 569 From the Provincial totals of the three years it may be seen that there in a gradual increase in the Medical and other Personnel.