128. Only 19 cases of Ophthalmia neonatorum were reported last year.
129. Venereal disease must reach a high percentage in the Colony, reckoned to be about 7 to 8% with such figures as are available, because the Colony possesses all the factors which are conducive to the disease and its spread. In particular it is a busy port, within easy reach of other maritime towns, there are many refugees both rich and poor, it is crowded with aly brothels, and private consorts are easily available in the cabarets or hotels and other places of amusement which abound in the Colony, thus making contact and contraction of venereal disease an easy matter.
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH
130. There has been a steady increase in interest in this subject among the Chinese population, as is shown by the well attended clinics that are run both in urban areas and in the villages. A practical approach is maintained by an attempt to meet the social, physical and mental health needs of the families and to educate the mothers in such a way as to stimulate their interest.
131. At present there is a gap in respect of the pre-school child and post-natal care in Maternal and Child Health Centres, but plans are in hand to attempt to meet this need.
132. There are three main centres with doctors in charge, Harcourt and the Western Infant Welfare Centre on the Island, and Tsim Sha Tsui Centre in Kowloon. Besides this, there are four subsidiary Infant Welfare Centres staffed with Health Nurses at Stanley, Aberdeen, and Shaukiwan, on the Island, and Shamshuipo in Kowloon.
133. During the year, 11,646 home visits were made by the Health Nurses in connexion with Infant Welfare work.
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134. The number of attendances at the clinics was аа follows:
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Attendances at Infant Welfare Clinics.
Harcourt Centre
Kowloon Centre
Western Centre
Aberdeen
Stanley
Slaukiwan
Shamshuipo..
r..
ALL
!
Grand Total
:
LLL
New
Revisite
Total
+++
2,980
$3,654
36,634
2,952
29,802
38,754
2.310
21,912
24,252
...
258
2,209
2,467
157
1,923
2.080
1,130
8,352
9,482
382
2,903
3,285
10,160
100,785
110,054
krw
135, Congee and UNICEF milk were given to the ill nourished. Mothers have a growing appreciation of the benefits of a balanced diet, the need for hygiene in preparing and serving food, and they respond well to the friendly atmosphere of the clinics.
136. Health sessions continued to be adapted to the cultural levels of the participants. During the year study and observa- tion groups included medical, midwifery, social science and social welfare students, school teachers and school girls for mother- craft, anti-tuberculosis trainees and welfare workers from official and voluntary organizations.
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