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lower grades were sold at 45 cents and 48 cents per catty and higher grades at 60 cents per catty. Rice was also available on the free market at prices very little higher than the price of rationed rice.
142. It seems possible that as results of shortage of rice during the war and post-war period there has been some change in the Chinese food pattern resulting in a greater variety of diet and this may possibly account for the very small amount of malnutrition to be seen at the present time.
(vii) Social Hygiene.
143. In February 1950, Dr. J. A. R. Selby, Senior Social Hygiene Officer went on leave prior to retirement when Dr. K. L. Cheung took over his duties.
144. The Senior Social Hygiene officer has a staff of 5 doctors to assist him, 1 technical assistant, & dressers and 17 nurses.
145. There are five Government clinica:-Queen's Road West, (male and female), Wanchai (female), and the Harcourt Health Centre (male) on the Island, and in Kowloon one at Ashley Road (male) and one at Tsimshatsui Health Centre (female). In addition to these centres, there is a small hospital at the Wanchai Social Hygiene centre which has 16 beds for women and four cots. There are also six male beds and two female beds in the Queen Mary Hospital. Attendances at these clinics are shown in Table 14.
TABLE 14.
Attendances at Social Hygiene Clinics.
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146. Home visits were paid by the nurses attached to the clinics where attendance for treatment was irregular and efforts were made to persuade the patients to attend more regularly.
147. At the Wanchai Social Hygiene Hospital 681 cases were treated as compared to 623 in 1948. This included 45 cases of congenital syphilis. This hospital was used primarily for a rapid sterilisation of patients.
148. A total of 286 cases of congenital syphilis were treated at the various clinics as compared with 149 în 1948.
V.—MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
(a) Centres.
149. In addition to the three main maternity and child wel- fare centres, one at Tsim Tsa Tsui in Kowloon and one each at the Harcourt and Western Health Centres on the Island, three small subsidiary teaching centres were opened on June 1st, one at Shaukiwan on the extreme eastern end of the urban area of the Island, one at Stanley on the south side of the Island and one at Aberdeen, an important fishing centre also on the south side of the Island.
150. At both the main and subsidiary centres the emphasis is laid upon the instruction of mothers and classes are held showing films, lantern slides and demonstrations of all kinds, the endeavour being to select the more intelligent mothers for this purpose so that they may spread their knowledge among their friends. Table 15 and 16 show the attendance at the main and subsidiary centres.
TABLE 15.
Attendances at Main Infant Welfare Clinics.
Male
Female
Total
Clinic
New
Revisits
Total
New
Old
New Old
New Old
Queen's Road West,
Wanchai
Tsim Sha Tsui
1,470 28,476 1,020 21,391
2,819 28,287 1,697 23.65.8 4,716 51,941
3,111 25,734 2,208 27,538 5,319 53,272
Harcourt Centre
2,490 44,868
2,138
26,898
28,094
Kowloon Centre
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2,804
28,034
30,833
Western Centre
+4
2,135
29,906
32,041
Total
7,400
77.402
5,125 72,687 12,525 150,079
Total
7,075
83,808
90,013
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