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TABLE 16.
Attendances at Infant Welfare Teaching Centres.
Clinton hold,
No Di
No of Hous
NEW
REVISITS
Under
Over
Total
1 year 1 year
Under 1 year
Over 1 year
Grand Total
Total
Shaukiwan.. 389
Stanley
47
ARG
1,112
357
1,469 1,905 31 224
149
29
178
515
160
GRA
Aberdeen
166
179
558
135
693
861
$172
27 157
16 162
Total
694
09
793
2,180
660
2,845 3,639 74) 553
151. Reference has already been made in the section on Health Education to the Healthy Baby Weeks held at each of the three main centres.
152. 5,724 domiciliary visits were paid by the nurses.
153. The distribution of milk provided by UNICEF amounted to 15,064 lbs.
154. The number of ante-natal attendances at the three centres was as follows:-Western 1,026, Kowloon 1,224, Har- court 774.
155. Of a total of 90,913 babies attending the centres 42,891 were classified as healthy, details are shown in Table 17.
TABLE 17.
State of Health of Attendances at Infant Welfare Clinics.
Western Infant
Welfare Centre www
Kowloon Inflat
Welfare Centre
Harcourt Infect
---
Welfare Centre...?
Tobl
CALDAJANJALA
NEW
Under
Over
One Year
'ODA year
Total
1.875
149
#
Under
JORGEN SANO
BEVISITS
Over
Grund
"Tobi
Totul
18 09 4,136 || 16,046 | 1,756 | 5,946|3,577 | 38,908
*MI
1,038
41
181 280419,498 | 1,140 | 4,583 1,509 08.084
50,890
199 1,000
9
102
2,132 || 3,600 | 18,196 | 1,080 | 4,717 | 28,698
SCAL
99 201
1,075 | 91,145 | 33,671 | 8,467 | 9,506 81,808
90,915
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(b) Government Maternity Hospitals and Homes.
156. There are two Government Maternity Hospitals, the Tsan Yuk Hospital with 75 beds and the Eastern Maternity Hospital with 24 beds. In addition maternity cases are admitted to special wards at Queen Mary Hospital and St. John Hospital, Cheung Chau, and to a separate block at Kowloon Hospital making a total of 189 beds available for maternity cases.
157. Besides these hospitals 18 midwives were employed in 14 districts, in 8 of which there was a small maternity home attached. The total number of domiciliary cases treated in the maternity homes totalled 2,013 making 4,265 cases treated in 1949 as compared with 3,336 in 1948.
158. A detailed report on the work done at the Tsan Yuk Maternity Hospital is given in annexure I by Professor Gordon King, Consultant to the Government and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the University of Hong Kong.
(c) Private Maternity Homes.
159. 102 private maternity homes were registered in 1949 and table 18 shows details of size and situation.
TABLE 18.
Size and site of Private Maternity Homes.
Number of beds in each Home
Number of Homes in Hong Kong
Number of Homes in Kowloon
Grand Total
Number of beds mum............-++++****
1 2 3 4 5 6
11 15 19 $
7 Total
6-0
16 20 6 5 3 2
52
109
2: 27: 35 25 8
2 | 54 | 105 | 100 | 40 18 14 333
160. These private maternity homes were visited for inspection purposes by the Supervisor of Midwives who made 112 visits to the Government Maternity Homes and 959 visita to the private maternity homes.
161. 803 midwives were registered during 1949; of these 49 were new graduates. Only 198 of the midwives registered were in actual practice and regular inspections of their records and maternity outfits were made by the Supervisor of Midwives. Table 19 shows the number of births attended by doctors and midwives for the years 1946 to 1949.