Annual report of the Mysore Department of Health.

  • Mysore (India : State). Department of Health.
Date:
[1936]
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Credit: Annual report of the Mysore Department of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. G. 4124-44—P. H. 12-37-3, dated 25th Novembee 1937. recurring cost of water-supply; while in all the Town and Minor Municipalities, the income and expenditure were Es. 10,76,706 and Es. 3,22,445 or (29*9 per cent), res¬ pectively. 13. Bureau of Maternity and Child Welfare.— Dr. (Mrs.) Erika Duessen Eosenthal, M.D., continued as Organiser of this Bureau. 14. At the instance of the Indian Eed Cross Society, Mysore State Branch, standard type plans of Maternity Homes to suit varied local requirements as noted helow were approved and copies were furnished to the Departments and other agencies concerned • — 1. Maternity Home for a village ; 2. Do do combined with quarters for a midwife ; Do do combined with child welfare centre and quarters for a mid¬ wife ; and 4. Do do combined with a child welfare centre and quarters for a mid¬ wife and a dispensary. 15, Baby Weeks were held during the year in 43 places under the joint auspices of the Eed Cross Society and the local bodies concerned. Twelve Maternity Homes and eight Child Welfare Centres were newly opened. 16. Sir Charles Todhunter, K.c.s.i., J.P., continued as Chairman of the Executive Committee, Eed Cross Society, Mysore State Branch. A number of special circumstances combined to make the year 1936 an excep¬ tionally busy one. In the first place, there was the distri¬ bution by the Government of the whole of the Silver Jubilee Fund, to which.was added the munificent donation of Es. 25,000 by Her Excellency Lady Willingdon for an anti-tuberculosis dispensary. In the second place, the year witnessed the commencement of the Government’s drive for village improvement in selected villages, the promotion of maternity and child welfare work being one of the principal items on the programme. In the third place, there was quite a remarkable wave of enthusiasm for maternity and child welfare and donors for maternity homes and similar buildings came forward in great numbers.