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total population of Hyderabad State being 13,374,676 persons, it is somewhat surprising to find that during the years 1320-1321 Fasli (October 1910-1912 A.D.) the yearly average of patients treated in the government hospitals and dispensaries was only 767,222 men, women and children, and that the in-patients averaged during the same period only 5,850 persons. The administration report says of the period under consideration : — "While there has been some increase in the number of in-patients, there has been a considerable and continuous decrease in the number of out-patients."

Yet the Census for 191 1 shows an extra-ordinary increase in the total for infirmities in the State since 1901, and says "a 20 per cent, increase of population (from 1901 to 1911) cannot be held to account sufficiently for an one thousand per cent, increase in the number of persons suffering from the infirmities included in the Census."