61. There are nine Giovernment Dispensaries giving free medical treatment to the villagers at Tai Po, Faoling, Sha Tan Kok. Fu Long, San Hui, Sai Kung, Cheung Chun, Shảm Tseng and Tai O...... These Dispensaries have also a few beds for maternity rases. Midwives attend maternity cases in the villages as well. The medical needs of smaller villages which can be reached by road are provided by two travelling dispensaries. A lauuch carrying medical supplies makes frequent trips to the more remote 1glands. Tu Jamary 1949 the Sham Teng Dispensary reverted to private control,
12. In May a successful Health Week was held. Steady education of the people is being maintained in health matters. The cinema van visited three tinies and helped particularly in the vaccination campaign. This van proved very popular,
63. There is every reason to believe that the preventive aspect of health work is developing and that the people welcome the teaching. The purely curative aspect of Dispensaries is necessary and serves as a means of establishing friendly contact with the people and of getting in touch with the progressive elements in the population who appreciate the results. combination works well and preventive measures are well received and supported by village elders.
(ii) Anti-epidemic.
The
6. This branch of the work is controlled from a central office and is carried out by all Health Officers, Dispensaries, Hospitals, School Medical Officers and the Port Health Office. In addition there is a mobile unit attached to the rentral office. The main work is devoted to the control of smallpox and cholera epidemics and attention was concentrated in the first place on the aquatters, who were considered the most likely focus of disease.
Table 12 shows the number of vaccinations and inoculations done each month.
TABLE 12
ועוי
Month
1848
Anti-
Smallpox
Vaccina-
20011
January
95.276
February
69.303
March
134.423
April
46.773
བྷིཙྪིཙྩེཡྻ, ཨུནཱསཱུཋཱ
Anti-
Typhoid
tions inocula-
Anti-
Plague
tions
No. of persons
treated with anti-rables Inoculations
737
463
1.139
914
BLI
**
BOZ
921
stc
Anti-
Anti-
snudfl
inocula-
tiona
Tetanus
inocula-
tions
75
G44
199
108
OTA
218
1.437
305
104
1.512
980
May
18.097
86.138
B
942
376
219
S&P'I
708
June
18.523
88,549
409
1.178
201
212
1,542
587
July
14.424
40.010
23
998
102
223
DEL
663
August
14.074
35.509
-
667
112
203
663
865
September
14.778
26.052
1.530
1.319
October
149.830
7.162
2.670
076
蟠
160
429
575
จ
187
705
218
November
159.437
6.043
1.586
876
171
559
057
December
127.146
6.667
2.442
$91
3
099
OVE
634
Total
800.342
379.324
23.703
10.834
1.701
2.074
11.198
5.881