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building operations could be started in the case of the former only. The
new Darbhanga Hospital was expected to be ready by March 1938, at a
cost of Rs. 7½ lakhs. The Madhubani Sub-divisional Hospital has been
rebuilt, while the Sitamarhi Hospital was still under construction in 1937.
Several small District Board dispensaries that had been destroyed by the
earthquake have been or are being reconstructed.

   The earthquake of June 1935 had an equally disastrous effect on the
buildings in Baluchistan. The Civil Hospitals at Chaman and Quetta and
the Lady Sandeman Dufferin Hospital, and the Mission Hospital, Quetta,
were completely demolished by the earthquake. It is proposed to re-
construct the two civil hospitals at Chaman and Quetta. As a result of
the earthquake the Church of England Zenana Mission Hospital and the
C. M. S. Hospital at Quetta ceased to work, but they restarted working in
May 1936. The Lady Sandeman Dufferin Hospital, Quetta, restarted work
in February 1936 in the compound of the Civil Hospital at Quetta, which
itself continued to work in the temporary huts put up at its old site in
1935. The Quetta Municipal Dispensary which ceased to function after
the earthquake has not yet been revived.

*15. LEGISLATION REGARDING CONTROL OF PRACTITIONERS,
                    OF THE INDIAN SYSTEMS OF MEDICINE.

   For sometime past there had been a demand from the public of the
Bombay Presidency for the recognition by Government of the Ayurvedic
and Unani systems of medicine. There is accordingly now under con-
sideration in the Bombay Legislative Assembly, a Bill to regulate the quali-
fications and to provide for the registration of practitioners of Indian sys-
tems of medicine. The Bill provides for the establishment of a Board of
Indian Systems of Medicine, with one President and twelve members.
Registered practitioners of the Indian systems of medicine shall, under the
provisions of this Bill, be regarded as "legally qualified" or "duly qualified"
medical practitioners and certificates granted by them shall be recognised
by law. The Board of Indian Systems of Medicine shall prescribe the course
of training and qualifying examinations including training and examinations
in pre-clinical subjects and no person shall be eligible for registration unless
he has passed a qualifying examination. The qualifying examination and
every prior examination leading up to it shall be inspected by the Inspectors
to be appointed by the said Board at least once in four years or oftener, if
the Board so decides. If the Provincial Government is, on the report of
the Board or otherwise, satisfied that the course of study and examinations
prescribed by any of the institutions are not such as to secure to persons
obtaining such qualifications requisite knowledge and skill for the efficient
practice of their profession, it shall be lawful for the Provincial Government
to direct the removal of the name of such institution from the list of ins-
titutions authorised to hold a qualifying examination. A list of practi-
tioners for the time being registered and their qualifications shall be pub-
lished every year and in any proceedings it shall be presumed that a prac-
titioner entered in such list is a registered practitioner. No person other

   * The information contained in this rote has been extracted from the daily press.