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Osmania General Hospital

The main hospital of Hyderabad State. According to the Nizam's administration report, it was completed in the year 1924–25 at a cost of Rs 20,56,535 against an estimate of Rs 21,22,500. Mudiraj's Pictorial Hyderabad (1929) called it one of the best equipped hospitals in India. In 1932–33 Mir Osman Ali Khan opened its X-ray department, and it trained the state's assistant surgeons.

Photograph of the long domed front of the Osmania General Hospital at Hyderabad.
Photograph of the long domed front of the Osmania General Hospital at Hyderabad. · K. Krishnaswamy Mudiraj (compiler and publisher), Pictorial Hyderabad, Vol. I (Chandrakanth Press, Hyderabad, 1929) (opens in a new tab) · Public domain

The Osmania General Hospital was built in Hyderabad in the reign of Mir Osman Ali Khan. He was the last ruling Nizam of the Asaf Jahi line. The administration report of the Nizam’s government for 1924–25 lists the completion of the hospital among the important events of the year.1 It names it together with the Himayat Sagar reservoir and gives its cost as 20.57 lakhs.1

The report’s account of public works gives the exact figure: “The Osmania General Hospital was completed during the year at a cost of Rs. 20,56,535 against the estimate of Rs. 21,22,500.”2 See Hyderabad.

The hospital in use

K. Krishnaswamy Mudiraj’s Pictorial Hyderabad (1929) describes it as “the Osmania General Hospital, one of the best equipped in India”.34 He prints photographs of a surgical ward.34 He also prints a photograph of the superintendent, Professor R. N. Coorlawala, with the medical and nursing staff.34

The administration report for 1932–33 records that the Nizam opened the hospital’s X-ray department that year.5 It says that “all facilities for treatment of different diseases were available at the Osmania General Hospital”.67 Four assistant surgeons and nine sub-assistant surgeons of the medical department were sent there for post-graduate training.67

Footnotes

  1. Report on the Administration of H.E.H. the Nizam’s Dominions, 1924–25 (1926), General Summary, p. i (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2

  2. Report on the Administration of H.E.H. the Nizam’s Dominions, 1924–25 (1926), p. vii (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩

  3. K. Krishnaswamy Mudiraj, Pictorial Hyderabad, Vol. I (1929), p. 16 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. Mudiraj, Pictorial Hyderabad (1929), plates following p. 16 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  5. Report on the Administration of H.E.H. the Nizam’s Dominions for 1342 Fasli (1932–33) (1935), General Summary, p. i (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩

  6. Report on the Administration of H.E.H. the Nizam’s Dominions for 1342 Fasli (1932–33) (1935), p. xi (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2

  7. Report on the Administration of H.E.H. the Nizam’s Dominions for 1342 Fasli (1932–33) (1935), p. 100 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2

Photos

References

Sources (3)
  1. H.E.H. the Nizam's Government, Report on the Administration of H.E.H. the Nizam's Dominions for the Year 6th October 1924 to 5th October 1925 (opens in a new tab), Government Central Press, Hyderabad, 1926, i, vii. [Public domain]
  2. H.E.H. the Nizam's Government, Report on the Administration of H.E.H. the Nizam's Dominions for the Year 1342 Fasli (1932-33) (opens in a new tab), Government Central Press, Hyderabad, 1935, i, xi, 100. [Public domain]
  3. K. Krishnaswamy Mudiraj, Pictorial Hyderabad, Vol. I (opens in a new tab), Chandrakanth Press, Hyderabad (Deccan), 1929, pp. 16, plates following p. 16. [Public domain]

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