'File 4/4 Muscat Administration Reports and related correspondence' [‎14r] (27/712)

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MUSCAI I03PITAL.
The Husoe t- iuttra 'tospltel regained oper. for the treptmer-t
of patler-tti o .ro ^ out the yrar. It SM row oerr. la UM for
about fifteen months and is a great improvement on the old
hospital .
muring the year urher report over three thousand patients
(Including 15C ir.ortlente)heve been treated. Although eroe*
-lent aocom: odation has beer, provided for inpatients,t^e r.um-
-berr remain low aa the natives ' s o not take kindly -o steyi.^
in hospital; few of them are able to r-eke arrangemerts for
their own food while ir. hospital and the funds available for
the mplr.tanar.ee of pauper patients are very small.
The Furopean ward has been the most successful and. many naval
patier-tB have baiiCdf 1 it»ed tt-.
The number of patients treated by the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. large on has
been gradixally declining during recent years. The statistics
of former years have shown as many as 5000 patients as against
the present years figures of "CCC. This,no doubt is almost
entirely due to tfhe institution of the Amerioar. 'fission dis-
-p«ns**y at huttra. naturally all Muttra patients now go there
for treatmentyas well as many sick and wou.dei from
-terior.as i/elr road to Muscat lies through Muttra. 'Tcbao y
the numbs/ of persons in receipt of modem medical relief
the statistics of former ye^rs.-
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Age:.cy Surgeon,Musoat