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TABLE 19

New

Revisite

Total

33

119. A total of 3336 casos were treated by these centres. (c) Maternity Homes.

120. There were 90 maternity homes registered during the year. Table 21 slows details and size and situation.

These hoines were regularly inspected by the Nupervisor of Midwives.

Harcourt Centre

2,534

91,913

34.447

Kowloon Centre

2.897

33.854

36.551

TABLE 21

Western Centre

2.407

41.196

43.603

Total

7.898

106,783

114,601

Number of beds in each Home +

3

4

7 Total

5,781 mothers and children were giren diet supplements of congee or milk at the feeding centres.

Number of Homes in Hong Kong

10 17

19 3

Of

11

10

116. 3,476 domiciliary visits were paid by the nurses, a total of 114,601 babies attending the centres, 38,733 were classified as healthy. This tendancy for large numbers of infants to be brought because of actual illness is being discouraged and in January 1949, sick children clinics were opened in the publie dispensaries and out-patient clinics and sick children attending the Infant Welfare clinice have since then been referred to these special sick children clinics. This has resulted in considerable increase in the time available for the educational and preventative aspects of the work at the Infant Welfare Clinics. The number of ante-natal attendances at the 3 centres is shown in table 20 below:-

TABLE 20

New

Revisits

Total

Grand Totaí

Number of beds

Kowloon

16

19

В

26

I

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49

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2

50

2

52 108 10%

12

14 1

324

121. There were 740 midwives registered, but of these only 173 were in active practice. 78 new registrations were made during the year and this figure included 59 new graduntes and 19 ro-registration.

122. Table 2 shows the births attended by Doctors and Midwives for the years 1946, 1947 and 1948.

Harcourt Centre

Kowloon Centre

Western Centre

330

529

859

387

702

1.089

177

435

612

TABLE 22

1946

1947

1948

Grand Total

894

1.666

2.500

(b) Maternity Hospitals and Homes.

Govt. Dispensaries (Attended by

Midwives)

Queen Mary Hospital

Kowloon Hospital

Tsan Yuk Hospital

Eastern Maternity Home

Private Hospitals

117

398

719

970

1.261

1.189

2.645

3.826

4.458

868

1.633

1,831

1.058

9.000

12,161

610

1.260

1.582

Private Maternity Homes

0.588

13.150

14,324

Total births delivered la hospitals

and maternity homes Domiciliary cases delivered by

Midwives

18.003

30.594

38.264

6.620

9.237

10.120

Total No. of births attended

24.521

30.831

46.981

In 9

Total No of births

31.099

42.473

47,475

Percentage of births altended

*

78.9%

03.05

97.7

117. There are two maternity hospitals, Taan Ynk Hospital with 62 beds and the Eastern Maternity Hospital with 28 beds. In addition maternity enses are admitted to the Queen Mary Hospital, Kowloon Hospital and Cheung Chau Hospital, making a total of 180 beds available for maternity cases.

118. Besides these hospitals there are 15 centres in the urban and rural areas where maternity service is provided free. of these there are from three to six beds for in-patients and in all centres there is a domiciliary service.