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children with a negative tuberculin test and I.N.A.H. to children aged one year or under with a positive tuberculin test not due to B.C.G.
Home visiting by Health Visitors is an important and ever expanding activity. Following the monthly birth returns visits are paid to new-born babies and babies attending the clinics are also visited at home, as required. A total of 46,248 home visits were paid.
Training sessions for practising midwives, student midwives, social workers, secondary school students and medical under- graduates are held at the Harcourt Health Centre. In-service training for the Maternal and Child Health staff is also given and classes are held regularly by two Health Sisters in Kowloon and Hong Kong respectively.
An important part of the training is the demonstration, to mid- wives in private practice, of the technique of handling and giving B.C.G.
Dietary supplements consisting of UNICEF skimmed milk powder are distributed widely. In addition vitamins and iron preparations are given as a routine. To cases recommended by Medical Officers or Almoners, full cream and half cream milk powder are also given.
School Health Service. The Working Party appointed to make recommendations on the future pattern of the School Health Service completed its work during the year and submitted a report to Government which is now being studied.
The School Health Service is organized in two sections, a general health service for all schools and a medical and dental treatment service for pupils and teachers participating in a fee paying scheme.
The general health service is concerned with the sanitary condi- tion of school premises, the control of communicable disease and health education. All building plans are scrutinized before final approval for construction is recommended and there is regular inspection of the sanitary condition of school premises. During the year 1,430 inspections were made and 90 plans were submitted for scrutiny.
All school children are offered free immunization against diph- theria, typhoid and smallpox. Inoculating teams visit regularly all
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