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61. There are nine Giovernment Dispensaries giving free medical treatment to the villagers at Tai Po, Faoling, Sha Tan Kok. Fu Long, San Hui, Sai Kung, Cheung Chun, Shảm Tseng and Tai O...... These Dispensaries have also a few beds for maternity rases. Midwives attend maternity cases in the villages as well. The medical needs of smaller villages which can be reached by road are provided by two travelling dispensaries. A lauuch carrying medical supplies makes frequent trips to the more remote 1glands. Tu Jamary 1949 the Sham Teng Dispensary reverted to private control,

12. In May a successful Health Week was held. Steady education of the people is being maintained in health matters. The cinema van visited three tinies and helped particularly in the vaccination campaign. This van proved very popular,

63. There is every reason to believe that the preventive aspect of health work is developing and that the people welcome the teaching. The purely curative aspect of Dispensaries is necessary and serves as a means of establishing friendly contact with the people and of getting in touch with the progressive elements in the population who appreciate the results. combination works well and preventive measures are well received and supported by village elders.

(ii) Anti-epidemic.

The

6. This branch of the work is controlled from a central office and is carried out by all Health Officers, Dispensaries, Hospitals, School Medical Officers and the Port Health Office. In addition there is a mobile unit attached to the rentral office. The main work is devoted to the control of smallpox and cholera epidemics and attention was concentrated in the first place on the aquatters, who were considered the most likely focus of disease.

Table 12 shows the number of vaccinations and inoculations done each month.

TABLE 12

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Month

1848

Anti-

Smallpox

Vaccina-

20011

January

95.276

February

69.303

March

134.423

April

46.773

བྷིཙྪིཙྩེཡྻ, ཨུནཱསཱུཋཱ

Anti-

Typhoid

tions inocula-

Anti-

Plague

tions

No. of persons

treated with anti-rables Inoculations

737

463

1.139

914

BLI

**

BOZ

921

stc

Anti-

Anti-

snudfl

inocula-

tiona

Tetanus

inocula-

tions

75

G44

199

108

OTA

218

1.437

305

104

1.512

980

May

18.097

86.138

B

942

376

219

S&P'I

708

June

18.523

88,549

409

1.178

201

212

1,542

587

July

14.424

40.010

23

998

102

223

DEL

663

August

14.074

35.509

-

667

112

203

663

865

September

14.778

26.052

1.530

1.319

October

149.830

7.162

2.670

076

蟠

160

429

575

จ

187

705

218

November

159.437

6.043

1.586

876

171

559

057

December

127.146

6.667

2.442

$91

3

099

OVE

634

Total

800.342

379.324

23.703

10.834

1.701

2.074

11.198

5.881