82
TABLE 19
New
Revisite
Total
33
119. A total of 3336 casos were treated by these centres. (c) Maternity Homes.
120. There were 90 maternity homes registered during the year. Table 21 slows details and size and situation.
These hoines were regularly inspected by the Nupervisor of Midwives.
Harcourt Centre
2,534
91,913
34.447
Kowloon Centre
2.897
33.854
36.551
TABLE 21
Western Centre
2.407
41.196
43.603
Total
7.898
106,783
114,601
Number of beds in each Home +
3
4
7 Total
5,781 mothers and children were giren diet supplements of congee or milk at the feeding centres.
Number of Homes in Hong Kong
10 17
19 3
Of
11
10
116. 3,476 domiciliary visits were paid by the nurses, a total of 114,601 babies attending the centres, 38,733 were classified as healthy. This tendancy for large numbers of infants to be brought because of actual illness is being discouraged and in January 1949, sick children clinics were opened in the publie dispensaries and out-patient clinics and sick children attending the Infant Welfare clinice have since then been referred to these special sick children clinics. This has resulted in considerable increase in the time available for the educational and preventative aspects of the work at the Infant Welfare Clinics. The number of ante-natal attendances at the 3 centres is shown in table 20 below:-
TABLE 20
New
Revisits
Total
Grand Totaí
Number of beds
Kowloon
16
19
В
26
I
D}
49
ៗ
2
50
2
52 108 10%
12
14 1
324
121. There were 740 midwives registered, but of these only 173 were in active practice. 78 new registrations were made during the year and this figure included 59 new graduntes and 19 ro-registration.
122. Table 2 shows the births attended by Doctors and Midwives for the years 1946, 1947 and 1948.
Harcourt Centre
Kowloon Centre
Western Centre
330
529
859
387
702
1.089
177
435
612
TABLE 22
1946
1947
1948
Grand Total
894
1.666
2.500
(b) Maternity Hospitals and Homes.
Govt. Dispensaries (Attended by
Midwives)
Queen Mary Hospital
Kowloon Hospital
Tsan Yuk Hospital
Eastern Maternity Home
Private Hospitals
117
398
719
970
1.261
1.189
2.645
3.826
4.458
868
1.633
1,831
1.058
9.000
12,161
610
1.260
1.582
Private Maternity Homes
0.588
13.150
14,324
Total births delivered la hospitals
and maternity homes Domiciliary cases delivered by
Midwives
18.003
30.594
38.264
6.620
9.237
10.120
Total No. of births attended
24.521
30.831
46.981
In 9
Total No of births
31.099
42.473
47,475
Percentage of births altended
*
78.9%
03.05
97.7
117. There are two maternity hospitals, Taan Ynk Hospital with 62 beds and the Eastern Maternity Hospital with 28 beds. In addition maternity enses are admitted to the Queen Mary Hospital, Kowloon Hospital and Cheung Chau Hospital, making a total of 180 beds available for maternity cases.
118. Besides these hospitals there are 15 centres in the urban and rural areas where maternity service is provided free. of these there are from three to six beds for in-patients and in all centres there is a domiciliary service.