Annual report on the Medical Department / Straits Settlements.

  • Straits Settlements. Medical Department.
Date:
[1926]
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Credit: Annual report on the Medical Department / Straits Settlements. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In Malacca Municipality, the health visitors made 23,138 visits to 3,779 infants under the age of six months. They attended 1,121 new born babies, of whom 326 were bottle fed. In Penang two European district nurses and 8 Chinese qualified mid¬ wives, acting as part-time district nurses, were kept busy. Exact figures of the work done are lacking. It can, however, be stated that three quarters of the children born in Municipal areas receive expert attention. The Government Women’s and Children’s Out-door dispensary at Kandang Kerbau in Singapore under the charge of Mrs. C. H. Duke, assisted by another lady medical officer, and a lady assistant surgeon, treated— ear New Patients Repetitions T ota’i )924 ... 7,572 i6,543 24,904 1925 ... 9,701 17,203 26,904 1926 ... 12,767 19,480 32,247 Seven thousand one hundred and twenty-six of the new cases in 1925, were children. The newlv appointed Lady Medical Officer in Penang treated 2,011 women and children who made 5,173 attendances at her dispensary. The appointment of three Government Health Sisters for work in the rural areas of Singapore, Penang and Malacca, has been sanctioned. They will arrive early in 1927. Government Maternity Hospitals. The numbers of women admitted to the three Government Maternity Hospitals in the Colony were— Maternity Hospital, Sepoy Lines A dmitted Delivered Gynecological Operations Singapore 813 727 47 Tree Maternity Hospital, Kan- dang Kerbau, Singapore 870 753 29 King Edward VII Maternity Hospital, Penang ... 872 714 70 Wards specially for children were maintained in Singapore at the General Hospital (36 beds) and at Kandang Children ’s Wards Kerbau (12 beds). A dmitted Discharged Died General Hospital, Singapore 344 249 78 Kandang Kerbau Hospital, Singapore 243 188 56 Hospitals for women and children with Maternity Wards were also main¬ tained by the Medical Mission under the Bishop of Singapore in Singapore and Malacca. There is also a Chinese hospital with a Maternity Ward maintained by the Cantonese Community in Singapore.