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277. The following table summarizes the figures for the main activities of the Maternal and Child Health Service in 1956, 1957 and
1958.
TABLE 21
MATERNAL AND CHOLD HEALTH WORE
year. The number of clinic attendances also decreased except for attend- ances at the Ophthalmic Clinics. The tables following give the figures for this aspect of school health work:
TABLE 24
MEDICAL INSPECTIONS OF PUPILS, 1958
1956
1957
1958
Stoff:
Medical Officers
--
Health Sisters
Health Visitors
Health Nurses
14
21
23
RR
27
26
Clinics!
No. of full time centres
5
6
7
No. of part time centres
14
20
21
Ante-natal clinics (excluding Hospital Clinics)
Total attendances
41,521
52,714 63,439
New attendances
11,699
15,447 18.257
Post-natal clinics (excluding Hospital Clinica)
Total attendances
3.653
New attendances
2,925
4,817 5,632 3,575 4,002
Child Health Clinics
Total attendamsca
New attendances
241,591 18,930
246,013 303,031 23,333 28,861
Health Education
Home visits
25.225
Total attendances at talks, discussions,
demonstrations, etc.
No. of cases referred to Family Planning Clinics
309,024 3,520
38,638 37,846
274,085 4.604
354,550 4,539
SCHOOL HEALTH
278. There was little alteration in the scope of this service during the year and no new schools were admitted. One additional clinic was opened in the new North Point Housing Estate where six morning sessions are held each week. The number of participants in the service dropped to 28,088 pupils and teachers in 354 schools distributed as shown in the following tablet
Status of School
Government
Subsidized
Private and Grant-in-Aid
TABLE 23
No. of Schools
No. of Participants
44
18,634
20
5,531
230
3,923
279. With the decreased numbers of participants the number of routine medical inspections carried out was less than in the previous
56
New Entrants fexisting Government schools only) Re-inspections
Periodical Inspections *.
Total
4.395
32,926
8.074
45,395
TABLE 25
ATTENDANCES AT SCHOOL CLINICS, 1958
AttendanceS
General Dental Ophthalmic
EN.T
Clinics
Clinics
Clinics
Clinics
New cases Revisits
48.148
2,273
2,179
902
17,542
33,249
1,722
1,282
Total
65,690
35,522
3.901
2,184
280, 219 children were referred to special clinics for specialist diagnosis and treatment: 55 general medical and surgical cases were admitted to Government hospitals and, in addition. 217 children were admitted for ear, nose and throat operations: 2,752 pairs of spectacles were prescribed and made by the Ophthalmic Service during the year. 281. Apart from a medical service to participants. the School Health Service undertakes certain gencral health services for schools. Prophylactic immunizations are available for all school children against smallpox, typhoid fever, diphtheria, and tuberculosis and the following were carried out amongst pupils and school staff in 1958:
TABLE 25
Anti-smallpox vaccination Anti-typhoid
1st dose
2nd dose
Booster dose
Anti-diphtheria
1st dose
2nd dose Booster dose
Anti-tuberculosis
Tuberculin Testing
Tuberculin Positive
L
Tuberculin Negative Vaccinated with B.C.G.
57
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36,445
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9.427
42.289
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1,944
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