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Rh badly equipped and wanting in medicines and instruments. Many reasons were assigned for this state of affairs, and a missionary doctor, who has an up-to-date hospital and a good private practice, assured me that the government would supply the necessary medicines and other things if the people in charge of the hospitals and dispensaries did not take them home and sell them! I was "minded" to ask the Director of the Medical Department about these matters ; and one day, when I happened to be at a small railway station in the Medak district, I very nearly did so, for one of the carriages of an in-coming train was labelled "Reserved for Lieutenant-Colonel Drake-Brockman." But it was only about 9, and I was told that the doctor Sahib was asleep, and I felt sure that if I woke him up, he would not give me the information I needed, for officials belonging to H. H. the Nizam's service will seldom answer any question that is put to them. Polite they are, but very discreet, and the enquirer is sent from office to office until he learns to "read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest" official documents.

A government medical school in the capital trains both sexes to become doctors