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Istarahna. ' Dolga. Um-Degarsi .

Irrigated area, Blue Nile Province.

Kas. Kuttum. Kebksbia. Kubbum. Kubbe.

Zalingei.

» Darfur Province.

The three new dispensaries in the irrigated area were opened to serve three new 15,000 acre areas which were brought under cultivation. Similarly, seven new dispensaries will have to be opened in this area in 1929.

The six new dispensaries in Darfur were opened primarily as an anti-epidemic measure, to win the confidence of the people in medical work and administration and thus to get early information of any epidemic outbreak, and to ensure the trustful co-operation of the people in dealing with such an epidemic. The number of these dispensaries will need to be further increased in the near future, if Darfur is to be effectually protected from the destructive epidemics which have caused such heavy loss of life to the people, and so much effort and expense to the

Government.

Progress in certain Provinces.

Khartoum hospital. The transfer of the Pathological Section of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories to the new building in the hospital enclosure has enabled a more intimate collaboration between the staffs of the two institutions and has been of great benefit to the work of the hospital.

Continued progress has been made in the development of a good and efficient outpatient department which is available for teaching purposes.

A useful and efficient Massage and Electro-Therapeutic Department has been built up in connection with the outpatient department.

The Xray Department is now working at a high level of efficiency and a greatly increased amount of work has been carried out.

Plans for a new European block in the general hospital enclosure were prepared and approved, but the commencement of work has been delayed. It is hoped that it will be completed in 1929.

Omdurman hospital. The inpatients at this hospital have increased by 54 per cent. The provision of some additional accommodation would appear to be inevitable.

A dispensary for women and children was opened in the Wad Nubawi quarter and placed under the charge of one of the newly-trained native nurses ; in the nine months during which it has been opened there has been an attendance of

12,680. This is interesting as being the first dispensary placed in charge of a native woman in the Sudan. It is hoped that further development on these lines

will be possible.