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Arrangements were made with the Division Superintendent of

Schools for dental care to be given to the evacuees by the local

Junior Red Cross dentist. Those who received this service ex-

pressed their gratitude for satisfactory service.

Red Cross nurses were on duty in La Union, Miramonte, San

Fernando, Bauan, and in hotels and apartment houses in Baguio.

These nurses made daily rounds to the quarters of the evacuees,

supervising the sanitary conditions of the quarters, giving

nursing care, general health supervision, distributing warm

clothing, and special foods to babies and small children.

thousand three hundred thirty-five visits were made. Seven

hundred nineteen of these visits were for nursing care. The

nurses were available for day and night calls.

One

Fifty-five patients who needed hospitalization were admit-

ted in the Notre Dame Hospital. An analysis follows:

Reason for Hospitalization

Diarrhea

•

Bronchitis, Acute

Gastro Intestina 1

Gastro Enteritis,

Otitis media

Tonsillitis

•

severe

Threatened abortion

Delivery

Measles

Malaria

Nephritis

Adenitis

Urticaria

Hysteria

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•

•

Lumbar pa in

Colecystitis

Nervous hysteria

Others

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Average days per patient

Average cost per day per patient

No. of Patients

12

9

5

2

1

1

1

1

1

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1

77

55

•

4-1/2 days

•

$5.59

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