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277. The following table summarizes the figures for the main activities of the Maternal and Child Health Service in 1956, 1957 and

1958.

TABLE 21

MATERNAL AND CHOLD HEALTH WORE

year. The number of clinic attendances also decreased except for attend- ances at the Ophthalmic Clinics. The tables following give the figures for this aspect of school health work:

TABLE 24

MEDICAL INSPECTIONS OF PUPILS, 1958

1956

1957

1958

Stoff:

Medical Officers

--

Health Sisters

Health Visitors

Health Nurses

14

21

23

RR

27

26

Clinics!

No. of full time centres

5

6

7

No. of part time centres

14

20

21

Ante-natal clinics (excluding Hospital Clinics)

Total attendances

41,521

52,714 63,439

New attendances

11,699

15,447 18.257

Post-natal clinics (excluding Hospital Clinica)

Total attendances

3.653

New attendances

2,925

4,817 5,632 3,575 4,002

Child Health Clinics

Total attendamsca

New attendances

241,591 18,930

246,013 303,031 23,333 28,861

Health Education

Home visits

25.225

Total attendances at talks, discussions,

demonstrations, etc.

No. of cases referred to Family Planning Clinics

309,024 3,520

38,638 37,846

274,085 4.604

354,550 4,539

SCHOOL HEALTH

278. There was little alteration in the scope of this service during the year and no new schools were admitted. One additional clinic was opened in the new North Point Housing Estate where six morning sessions are held each week. The number of participants in the service dropped to 28,088 pupils and teachers in 354 schools distributed as shown in the following tablet

Status of School

Government

Subsidized

Private and Grant-in-Aid

TABLE 23

No. of Schools

No. of Participants

44

18,634

20

5,531

230

3,923

279. With the decreased numbers of participants the number of routine medical inspections carried out was less than in the previous

56

New Entrants fexisting Government schools only) Re-inspections

Periodical Inspections *.

Total

4.395

32,926

8.074

45,395

TABLE 25

ATTENDANCES AT SCHOOL CLINICS, 1958

AttendanceS

General Dental Ophthalmic

EN.T

Clinics

Clinics

Clinics

Clinics

New cases Revisits

48.148

2,273

2,179

902

17,542

33,249

1,722

1,282

Total

65,690

35,522

3.901

2,184

280, 219 children were referred to special clinics for specialist diagnosis and treatment: 55 general medical and surgical cases were admitted to Government hospitals and, in addition. 217 children were admitted for ear, nose and throat operations: 2,752 pairs of spectacles were prescribed and made by the Ophthalmic Service during the year. 281. Apart from a medical service to participants. the School Health Service undertakes certain gencral health services for schools. Prophylactic immunizations are available for all school children against smallpox, typhoid fever, diphtheria, and tuberculosis and the following were carried out amongst pupils and school staff in 1958:

TABLE 25

Anti-smallpox vaccination Anti-typhoid

1st dose

2nd dose

Booster dose

Anti-diphtheria

1st dose

2nd dose Booster dose

Anti-tuberculosis

Tuberculin Testing

Tuberculin Positive

L

Tuberculin Negative Vaccinated with B.C.G.

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6,567

36,445

33,045

9.427

42.289

38,753

8,121

18,500

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15.969

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1,955

1,944

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