File 4097/1914 Pt 3 'Mesopotamia: administration; personnel; military officers appointed to civil administration' [‎105r] (218/709)

i'Jotes on Civil medical ArrangQinents.
Bagh,ad City.
Baghdad is a city of at present about 160,GuQ inhabitants,
of which about three quarters live on the left bank and one
quarter on tile right bank of the river.
xne average daily sick nay be esti aft ted at not less than •
7aOO of whom much less than one tenth can be dealt with by the
few private medical practitioners now here.
A—e n'dict^ice is left to be c. eaIt with so long as the war
lasts by official and institutional methods, or not den It with
at all.
Assuming that out of the 7500 daily sick, only 4GCu are of
*
tne classes who will avail themselves of d/pensary or hospital
treatment (^ 10 derate estimate) and assuming al 0 that there are
enough private practitioners to deal with the other 3500 (which
is not the case as most of the civil medical practitioners were
removod by the Turks) the requirements for dealing with such [
number of sick would be
Inpatient accommodation (at the lowest computation) 600 bee
Outpatient departments staffed to deal with over 3000
patients daily.
The acco modation actually available at present is
1. Civil hospital (on right bank) (including poor house in-
150 beds
w 0 200 daily
2. Civil dispensary [left bank)
for out pat 1 ents with (for
u. u <
fi rm&ry)
Inpati ent
outpatients department
capable of dealing with
6 beds
200 daily
IoO .beds,
luu beas.
20 beds
observation)
and capable of dealing with
3e The venereal Hospital for ,/omen.
4. Civil Isolation Hospital.
5. Jail dispensary with
The Staff available to deal with all this is
1. One over worked Civil Surgeon (Bt. hajor Carey hvans, k.O)
kno^vn as the hedical Officer, Baghdad, whose duties include :