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Attendances at School Clinic, 1955
E. X. T. Clinich
General
Dental
Clinica
Clinics
Ophthalmi
Clinica
70,536
16,560
4.201
1,866
20.957
21.414
2,574
1.085
99,493
37,974
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3,731
79. The School Dental Service is virtually overwhelmed. A very large proportion of the new entrants are found to be in need of dental attention and in 1965, 79.18% of the 24,785 children dentally inspected at schools were referred for neces- sary dental work. In only 5.8% of the cases could treatment be completed to the extent that the patients could be classed as dentally fit.
80. Spectacles are provided free for children with refrac- tive errors. 3,208 pairs were issued in 1955. Plastic frames of more cosmetic appeal are now provided in place of the original metal ones. To assist in simple refraction work 3 school medical officers have been trained by the Ophthalmic Specialist. Teachers from private, subsidized and grant in aid schools are also eligible to participate in the service.
81. Apart from preventive and clinical work the School Health Service is also responsible for the inspection of all schools in connexion with the hygiene and sanitation of their premises, the approval of plans for new schools from the Public Health aspect and for Health Education programmes in schools and Teachers Training Colleges. Inspection visits to premises in 1955 totalled 2,589. These included visits to 188 premises for which applications for new schools had been received.
Health Education.
82. Some results are forthcoming from general publicity given in the form of posters, pamphlets and films. Somewhat better results appear to come from mobile broadcasting vans in
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conjunction with accompanying action such as immunization campaigns against smallpox, diphtheria and typhoid fever. The best results undoubtedly seem to be from home visits by health visitors, health inspectors, and nurses, when health education can be directed to conditions «bserved on the spot, and from talks to selected groups of persons.-for example, mothers attending ante-natal and infant welfare clinics, school children and teachers in training.
83. Statistics of work done by individual sub-departments in the year are difficult to present as a whole, but details of the methods employed and the attendances recorded by the Mater- nity and Child Health section are given at Appendix 4.
IV. THE MEDICAL, DIVISION
General Survey of Hospitals.
84. There are 27 hospitals in the Colony, 11 of which are run by the Government. The other 16 are run by various private organizations, 7 of them receiving substantial financial assistance from Government in respect of the charitable services they offer. Details of the various hospitals and the beds and services they offer are attached at Appendix 5. Details of work done in Government hospitals and in the assisted hospitals classified according to the International Standard Classification (International list of 150 causes) are given at Appendix 6. Details of in-patients treated in all hospitals during the year are shown at Appendix 7.
85. The 11 Government hospitals provide a total of 1,983 beds, the Government assisted hospitals 2,280 beds and private hospitals 1,008 beds. In addition various Government Dispen- saries provide a further 84 beds, practically all for maternity cases. There are therefore in the Colony a total of 5,355 beds for all purposes including mentally ill patients and for the isolation of infectious diseases. Excluding the 995 beds set aside for tuberculosis, the 141 beds provided for the mentally ill and the 751 beds reserved for the isolation of infectious cases there are therefore 3,468 beds available in the Colony for all
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