Annual report of the Director of Public Health of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.

  • United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (India). Public Health Department.
Date:
[1926]
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Credit: Annual report of the Director of Public Health of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of scholars, such as, eye diseases, skin diseases, malaria and lung diseases, ■etc., can be carried out should be largely increased. The chief object of School medical inspection is not only to find out what diseases the scholars suffer from, but to obtain the cure of their disabilities. I hope that Gov¬ ernment will give this question their most sympathetic consideration. In some of the larger towns, such as the divisional headquarters, certain special school medical officers have been appointed by the Director of Public Instruction, chiefly for the purpose of treating scholars found suffering from the various common diseases found in schools. This system has only been in force during a portion of the year under report and the Director of Public Instruction cannot as yet express a considered opinion on the result of this experiment, but he is of the opinion that treatment centres for these school medical officers in the form of school clinics are urgently required. I am in agreement with him that clinics are necessary, but I consider that as long as the agency employed by him consists of a part- time agency, little success can be expected from the scheme. I consider that these school medical officers should be whole-time servants of Gov¬ ernment and should not be allowed private practice and that their chief duty should be the treatment of all the poorer classes of scholars who cannot afford such treatment themselves. With a view to finding out what percentage of the scholars examined by the district health staffs actually undergo the advised treatment, I am working out a scheme with the co-operation of the Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, which, I hope, will give the necessary information. 98. During 1920, Government appointed Assistant Directors of Public Health, Civil Surgeons, Municipal and District Medical Officers of Health ex officio additional Inspectors of Factories within the limits of their juris¬ diction as specified in the Government notification. Civil Surgeons were to exercise the powers of addi¬ tional inspectors only until such time as District Medical Officers of Health were appointed, when the these powers in their respective districts by virtue of Inspection of fac¬ tories by Assistant Directors of Public Health, Civil Surgeons, Municipal and Dis¬ trict Medical Oificers of Health. latter would assume their appointment. 94. At the instance of the League of Nations, Health Organization, Dr. Alkovic of Jugo Slavia paid a visit to these the United Provinces. provinces, for the purpose of studying anti-malarial measures. Necessary facilities were afforded to him and he has expressed his thanks for the trouble taken by all concerned aud the courtesy he has received. Drs. Avari and Naidu of the Bombay Research Institute along with Professor Marras of the Egyptian Quarantine visited these provinces to try the plague bacteriophage of Dr. D’Herelle. An account of the experi¬ ment carried out by them at Agra is given in paragraph 78 of this report. 95. Under the presidency of the Director of Public Health a Confer¬ ence of all the Assistant Directors of Public Health Public Health Con- was held at Lucknow in November, 1926, to consider ference- and discuss the various public health problems, espe¬ cially the special medical and sanitary arrangements to be made for the Kumbh fairs at Hardwar and Brindabao. i