Maternal and Child Health
102. The Maternal and Child Health services are, veulence, considered below under two headings;-
for con-
(a) Midwifery dealing with actual deliveries, and
(6) Maternal and Child Health with the care of the pregnant and parturient women, infants and young children.
103. Both activities are directed by the Medical Officer in charge of Maternal and Child Health services who is also Supervisor of Midwives.
104. (a) Midwifery services. The Government midwifery services is provided by 26 full time district midwives and 22 trained amahs. This staff operates from 17 midwifery centres from all of which a domiciliary service is provided and 117 lying-in facilities are available. The total number of beds in these centres la 55.
105. During the year only one additional permanent centre was brought into operation. This was at Taai Wan at the eastern end of Hong Kong Island in a resettlement area, only domicilliary work is done from this centre as there are as yet no facilities for admission of patients.
106. A further temporary centre was established in Kowloon during the last quarter of the period under review. This was occasioned by the great fire in a squatter resettlement area which occurred on Christmas night and to which reference bas already been made. It was estimated that a displaced population of 55,000 persons was liable to produce an average of $ to d births per day. Normally virtually all of these births would have been domiciliary cases, but in view of the large number of displaced persons who were forced to live on the pavements in makeshift shelters it was decided to set up a temporary maternity hospital to meet the situation. This was provided
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Occupational Therapy.
Newly completed clinic in Hp hai.
Maternal and Child Health Centra-feeding of undernourished
mothere.