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PROGRESS IN MEDICAL WORK.

There was a large increase in the number of inpatients and outpat'ents that came under treatment. The numbers compared with previous years are as follows :—

Year 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928

Inpatients . . 17742 18172 19827 18637 21738 26023 31510 Outpatients 355727 388863 394418 476697 833990 1096839 1445683

This increase is partly due to increased work at existing hospitals, which has in some cases involved the provision of additional accommodation, and partly to an increase in the number of dispensaries.

The following additions to existing hospitals were made:—

Nahud 2nd class male ward (19 beds)

Wad Medani 3rd class ward (30 beds)

Female outpatient department. Drug sto e. Two 2 roomed isolation wards

Port Sudan.

Malakal

Sl-Dueim

Khartoum

Bara

Muglad

Billing

Outpatient department

Kitchen and servants’ block

Dispenser’s quarters. 5 attendants tukls (huts)

3 quarantine tukls (huts)

Garage for ambulance

House for dispensary hakim Two tukls (huts) 1 dahr-el-tor (grass-built ward)

Two tukls (huts)

Alteration to main block

Kassala Drug store

Piped water supply for the hospital 3 quarantine tukls. (huts) Attend nts’ quarters 4 tukls at Khatmia and Railway Station.

Gebeit. 12 bedded hospital.

The following new dispensaries were opened :—■ Khandak) Ghaba. j Dongola Province.

Yirrol. Bahr-el-Ghazal Province

Gelhak } Kaka /

Hassa-Heissa

Upper Nile Province

Blue Nile Province