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Hospitals and Institutions during the last ten years:— A Statement showing the number of cases of Syphilis and Gonorrhoea reported from certain
Civil
Kowloon TOTAL. Kowloon Tung Wah Victoria Hospital. Hospital. Dispensary Hospital. Hospital. Mortuary. Mortuary, Kowloon
Gaol
1
1917.
1918.
Syphilis. Gonorrhoea.
Syphilis.
Gonorrhoea.
133
56
68
DON S
06 E
117
251
2
696
353
38
449
252
108
357
+
816
99
202
48
816
org
1919.
Syphilis.
125
8
410
216
14
74
119
547
547
Gonorrhoea.
125
260
18
от
408
405
1920.
Syphilis.
148
10
205
161
317
350
500
Gonorrhoea.
184
104
2
249
66
67
404
464
1921.
Syphilis.
181
53
221
249
152
14
718
RIL
Gonorrhoea.
140
121
160
42
1922.
Syphilis.
182
7
204
264
351
54
Gonorrhoea.
140
6
215
1923.
Syphilis.
183
353
Gonorrhoea.
182 133
1924.
Gonorrhoea.
Syphilis.
171
126
1925.
Syphilis.
146
2-10 10
96
965
587
72
517
427
ሰ
66
eq
19
29
113
468 405
887
425
1,264
303
1,328
288
NGV
قران
138
58
586
207
Gonorrhoea.
96
13
186
42
1926.
Syphilis.
83
324
17
378
326
43
1,100
887
13
865
Gonorrhoea.
105
150
4
86
872
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REPORT OF A. M. O. SCHOOLS-1926.
The work during 1926 has been moderately satisfactory.
Over 1,000 entrants have been thoroughly examined, together with about 150 special cases. 405 of these entrants, found defective, have been re-inspected. The finding of defects is
a useful initial part of School Medical Inspection, but the point on which sucessful work depends is, in what proportion the defects found are improved or cured. Provision for sight defects has been very satisfactory, and in schools where trouble is taken to see that glasses are worn, and to explain to the boys that new glasses, like new boots, require a little patience, the improvement has been close on 100 per cent,—a most pleasing result for the oculist-as well as for the M. O. Schools.
Treatment for other defects, however, has been almost negligible. Chronic trachoma, unhealthy or enlarged tonsils, adenoids, ear trouble, and various minor ailments, have been noted, and the Headmasters of schools have sent the boys for treatment according to the scheme arranged in conjunction with the G. C. II. and the Chinese Public Dispensaries, but if repeated attendances are necessary, the boy will seldom keep them up, his main idea being that one visit and one bottle of medicine should work an instantaneous cure. This has been particularly noticeable in treatment for trachoma or ear dis- charge, which is necessarily prolonged, and where it is quite impossible that the old cases should see the senior doctor in charge at each attendance, unless a special day were to be set apart for school cases only. This at present is quite impossible for the staffs of the hospitals.
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It is at present useless even to suggest operation, for even the worst cases of unhealthy tonsils or adenoids. I think only two cases have been operated on, among Chinese children, during the year. When I have the School Nurse to interpret for me, I hope to be able to persuade the children into better health habits.
Two outstanding difficulties are, that most children are scen at an age when defects have become so firmly established (chronic trachoma, shortsight, ear disease, spinal curvature and poor chest development) that no preventive measures are of much use: also the child's opinion as to necessity for treatment is allowed to be paramount. Lowering of the age for admission 10 schools would help in this difficulty.
Another is that many boys attend school for a short time only and by the time re-inspection is made, (usually within six months after inspection) they have left school or transferred to another, in some cases under a new name. It is a distinct financial loss to the Government when a child is provided with the specialist's eye examination and spectacles, and leaves school the following week or month.
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