24 TRAVANCORE STATE
three English newspapers. By '1903-4 the numbers had increased to
nineteen and five respectively. The vernacular papers have an average
circulation of 850 copies, ranging from 2,500 to 225. One of them
deals with social, one with educational, six with religious, and eleven
with general and political topics.
Travancore is liberally supplied with hospitals and dispensaries.
'faking the State and aided institutions together, there is one to every
25,896 of the population and to every 62 square
Medical. miles of the total area, or every 21 square miles
of the occupied area. The State institutions comprise 22 hospitals
and 3o dispensaries, with accommodation for '1,215 in-patients. In
1903-4, '15,700 in-patients and 6o8,ooo out-patients were treated at
them, 26,700 operations were performed, and the expenditure was
Rs. 2, 7 3, 000.
The missionary bodies also administer relief to the sick at their
chief centres. Foremost among the State institutions are the General
Hospital, opened in 1865, which contains accommodation for 104 in-
patients; the Taikkad Hospital, with 130 beds, founded in the third
decade of the last century ; the Women and Children's Hospital, with
35 beds, under a qualified lady doctor; and the Maternity Hospital,
with 42 beds-all these being located at Trivandrum. The Victoria
Jubilee Hospital at Quilon contains 22 beds. The State further main-
tains at the capital two special institutions, one for lunatics and another
for lepers. In 1903-4, 164 patients were treated in the former and
243 in the latter. The whole Medical department is under the charge
of an officer of the Indian Medical Service, who is also Physician to the
Maharaja and is styled the Darbâr Physician. At a veterinary hospital
at Trivandrum 224 animals were treated in 1903-4.
Vaccination is carried on by the Sanitary department, with a staff of
8o vaccinators, including eight women. A vaccine dép6t is established
at the capital, where calf-lymph is prepared under the direction of
a specially trained medical graduate and distributed to the several
stations. Vaccination is not compulsory, but the number of operations
performed in 1903-4 was 150,000 or 5o per '1,ooo of the population.
[Census Reports of 1891 and rgoI ; V. Nagam Aiya, Travancore State
Manual, 3 vols. (Trivandrum, '1go6).]
Trevandrum.-Town in Travancore State, Madras. See TRivnrr-
DRUM.
Tribeni Canal.-A protective work now under construction in
Champâran District, Bengal. The sanctioned estimate provides for
61 miles of main canal, with 250 miles of distributaries. The canal
will derive its supply from the Gandak river and will run eastwards
along the northern boundary of the District, serving an area of about
450 square miles; it is expected eventually to irrigate 125 square miles
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