Violet Peel Clinic
Kowloon Clinic
Tsan Yuk Clinic
Totals
M 115Table I.
First visits Repeat visits Total visits 338 270 608 164 164 328 72 40 112 574 474 1,048The number of first visits shows an increase of seventy-three per centum over the figures for last year, and the aggregate total of 1,048 visits shows an increase of eighty-four per centum over last year.
An analysis of the 574 new cases reveals the following facts regarding the type of patient for whom the clinics cater :-
Average age―30.9 years.
Number of children :-Six, of whom only four survive in the average case.
Family Income: The overall average was $46 per month. In fifteen per centum of the patients the income was over $100 per month. If these patients are excluded, it was found that the average income of the remaining eighty-five per centum was only $22 per month.
Contraceptive methods: The greatest reliance has been placed, as in previous years, on the use of the diaphragm and jelly. The sponge and foam powder method has been mainly reserved for those cases unable to learn the technique of the diaphragm method.
Payment: The majority of the patients have paid either the whole or a part of the cost of the apparatus provided. In 123 cases, however, the patients were unable to afford any payment and were given completely free treatment.
Results --So far as it is possible to judge from the return visits, the results have been satisfactory on the whole. Four cases of failure have been reported, and on investigation it was found that in each case the patient had discarded the use of the cap.
The advent of the war created certain difficulties over the obtaining of supplies, but these have fortunately been surmounted, and the League has now a good stock of the necessary equipment.
In reviewing the present status of our work the situation can best be expressed by an extract from R. L. Dickinson's recent volume on the "Control of Conception": "Better results from better adaptations; bettered detail of technique; further extension of protection to those with just claims to protection: franker facing of medical issues; organised study -- these, rather than new discoveries, are the chief conditions to be chronicled." Another statement from the same source is in entire agreement with our experience: "Clinics everywhere thought they had a method so generally applicable that the movement required merely multiplication of centres. Pessary-jelly looked effective enough to be exclusive. New follow-up gives this comfortable belief a jolt. The protection rate is high, but the refusal rate is somewhat disconcerting when, except for selected groups, a considerable proportion of those instructed decline to begin or to continue with this method..... As protection, contraceptive methods can fairly claim a very large and increasing measure of success by a variety of means. But we shall not be content merely with a large proportion of users of such means completely protected. We seek entire security and simplicity for all who need such safely.
Violet Peel Clinic
Kowloon Clinic
Tsan Yuk Clinic
Totals
M 115
Table I.
First
Repeat
Total
visits
visits
visits
338
270
608
164
164
328
72
40
112
574
474
1,048
The number of first visits shows an increase of seventy-three per centum over the figures for last year, and the aggregate total of 1,048 visits shows an increase of eighty-four per centum over last year.
An analysis of the 574 new cases reveals the following facts regarding the type of patient for whom the clinics cater :-
Average age―30.9 years.
Number of children :-Six, of whom only four survive in the average case.
Family Income: The overall average was $46 per month. In fifteen per centum of the patients the income was over $100 per month. If these patients are excluded, it was found that the average income of the remaining eighty-five per centum was only $22 per month.
Contraceptive methods: The greatest reliance has been placed, as in previous years, on the use of the diaphragm and jelly. The sponge and foam powder method has been mainly reserved for those cases unable to learn the technique of the dia- phragm method.
Payment: The majority of the patients have paid either the whole or a part of the cost of the apparatus provided. In 123 cases, however, the patients were unable to afford any payment and were given completely free treatment.
Results --So far as it is possible to judge from the return visits, the results have been satisfactory on the whole. Four cases of failure have been reported, and on investigation it was found that in each case the patient had discarded the use of the cap.
The advent of the war created certain difficulties over the obtaining of supplies, but these have fortunately been surmounted, and the League has now a good stock of the necessary equipment.
In reviewing the present status of our work the situation can best be expressed by an extract from R. I.. Dickinson's recent volume on the "Control of Conception": "Better results from better adaptations; bettered detail of technique; further exten- sion of protection to those with just claims to protection: franker facing of medical issues; organised study
these, rather than new discoveries, are the chief conditions to be chronicled." Another statement from the same source is in entire agreement with our experience: "Clinics everywhere thought they had a method so generally applicable that the movement required merely multiplication of centres. Pessary-jelly looked effective enough to be exclusive. New follow-up gives this comfortable belief a jolt. The protection rate is high, but the refusal rate is somewhat disconcerting when, except for selected groups, a considerable proportion of those instructed decline to begin or to continue with this method..... As protection, contraceptive methods can fairly claim a very large and increasing measure of success by a variety of means. But we shall not be content merely with a large proportion of users of such means completely protected. We seek entire security and simplicity for all who need such safely.
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