The Straits Settlements medical report.

  • Straits Settlements. Medical Department.
Date:
[1906]
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Credit: The Straits Settlements medical report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    II.—Local Diseases. I905- 1906. Admissions. Deaths. Admissions. Deaths. Diseases of the Nervous System (in¬ cluding admissions to the Lunatic Asylum less cases transferred there from other Hospitals) 605 155 756 247 Diseases of the Respiratory System (not including Phthisis) 661 144 841 150 Diseases of the Digestive System (including Diarrhoea) 1,989 462 1,976 391# Diseases of the skin 2,744 9 2,685 27 1 III.—Injuries. 1905. 1906. Admissions. Deaths. Admissions. Deaths. General and Lo^al 1,670 77 1,878 69 (a) For Diarrhcei only—1905, 1,020 cases and 330 deaths. Do. —1906, 884 cases and 206 deaths. 19. Lunatic As\lum, Singapore.—'I lie total number treated was 509 as against 51 1 in 1905. The favourable recovery rate of the previous few years has been maintained. During the cholera outbreak in town six cases occurred in the Asylum, the first one being an attendant. The patients from the lower level were all sent to the Quarantine Station where six further cases occurred. After a residence of nearly two months on the Island the remainder of the patients were brought back to the Asylum. Owing again to the scarcity of raw cotton in the market the industry of cotton blanket making was not pursued in and consequently the cost of purchasing blankets has increased. There was, of course, on the other hand a reduction in the cost of raw materials. I he building of the new Asylum on the ground site at Trafalgar Estate has been indefinitely postponed. 20. Maternity Hospital, Singapore.—There were 98 admissions against 93 in 1905. The popularity of the hospital among the natives is now undoubted and will grow with the proposed enlargement of the institution. Two Probationers passed out during the year. The number so far stands at II. One is employed as Matron of the Lock Hospital and the others are all, 1 understand, enjoying good practice in Singapore and neighbouring places. 21. Police Force.—The out-patients in Singapore numbered 3,301 as against 4,283 in 1905. Three hundred and seventy-one were treated in Hospital in Singapore and 471 in Penang. 22. Estates.—The number of admissions into hospitals on the five big estates totalled 4,857 in 1906, as against 5,447 in the year previous. Improvement is reported in the health of the coolies on Caledonia and Victoria over the year 1905. 23. Ben-ben Hospital, Pasir Panjang.—This hospital was completed and taken over towards the end of the year. It is hoped that the treatment of cases here will meet with beneficial results. 24. Out-door Dispensaries.—Twenty two thousand two hundred and nine patients were treated at the different Dispensaries as against 20,436 patients in 1905.