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38. The Kowloon Centre was moved to a more suitable building. The Western Centre has made good progress and is doing excellent work. Five lady medical officers and thirteen nurses are now engaged in this service. Attendances totalled 206,882 (161,157 in 1939). Free issue of milk and meals to impoverished mothers and children was continued.
NEW TERRITORIES.
39. Steady progress was made in public health work and much cleaning up was done. Anything adversely affecting health conditions in the New Territories is sure to have repercussions in the urban areas and an attempt is being made to bring health legislation in the former, as far as practicable, into line with that
in the latter.
TRAINING OF LOCAL MEDICAL AND HEALTH STAFF.
40. (a) With his appointment as lecturer in public health, the deputy director of health services assumed full responsibility for the teaching of hygiene at the Hong Kong University. Recommendations to the University Authorities for the institution of a post-graduate course for a diploma in Public Health, or, failing that, a diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, were sympathetically received. While shortage of staff and laboratory accommodation is likely to postpone the former, it is hoped that a start can be made with the latter in September, 1941. These courses would give local medical graduates an opportunity of qualifying for admission to the health services of the Colony.
(b) Teachers in training are given a course of lectures on hygiene by
the health officer in charge of the School Medical Service.
(c) At an examination held in December, fourteen out of twenty-three local candidates for the Sanitary Inspector's Certificate of the Royal Sanitary Institute satisfied the examiners. A revised and more systematized course of training for this examination will come into operation in 1941.
(d) Reference has been made to health visitors, but these at present are nurses who have had no special training in health work. To give the necessary training and to supervise the work of these important members of the staff, Government has approved of the appointment in 1941 of a qualified health visitor as superintendent and training officer for health visitors.
41. The following appendices are attached :—
Appendix A.
Appendix B.
Appendix C. Appendix D.
Return of diseases-Government Hospitals. Return of diseases-Tung Wah Hospitals. Return of diseases-Public Mortuaries. Return of Principal Causes of Deaths.
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Appendix A.
GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS.
Appendix B,
CHINESE HOSPITALS.
Yearly total
Diseases.
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I.-Infective & Parasitic Diseases.
1. Typhoid fever
2. Paratyphoid fevers
3. Plague :-
(a) Bubonic, septicemic and secondary pul- monary plague (itt- fection by fleas or other biting insects). (b) Primary pneumonic
plague (infection through respiratory tract]
(c) Unspecified plague
4. Cholers
5. Undnlant fever (Brucellosis) —
(a) Infection by Brucella melitensis (Melito- coccus)
(b) Infection by Brucella
abortus Bang
(c) Unspecified
6. Cerebral-spinal meningo-
coccal meningitis
7. Malignant pustule and an
thrax (Bacillus anthracis):
(4) Malignant pustule (b) Septicemic and visceral anthrax
(e) Unspecified anthrax
8. Scarlet fever
9. Whooping cough
10. Diphtheria
Remaining in
hospital at
end of 1940.
Yearly total
Remaining in hospital at
end of 1939.
Admis-
sions.
Deaths.
Total Cases
Treated.
Remaining in
end
1940.
5
127
36
132
9
12
273
118
285
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13.
Tuberculosis of the re-
spiratory system (includ-
ing mediastinal glands) :-
P. S. SELWTYN-CLARKE, Director of Medical Services.
29th March, 1941.
(c) Tuberculosis of un-
specified site
(2) With mention of oc- cupational disease of lung
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56
467
68
523
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186 4,029
2,983 4,215
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80
1,636
588
1,716
101
202 4,753 3,218 4,955 280
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