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ANNUAL REPORT
1948
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface.
Letter from Chairman of the Public Health
Committee,
Page
Staff of the Public Health Department 1, 2
SECTION A
Statistics and Social Conditions
(i) General Statistics 3
(ii) Social Conditions 3
(iii) Extracts from Vital Statistics 3
(iv) Causes of Death 7
SECTION B
General Provisions of Health Services
1. (i) Public Health Officers 8
(ii) (a) Laboratory Facilities 8
(b) Ambulance Facilities 8
(c) Nursing in the Home 9
(d) Clinics and Treatment Centres 10
(e) Hospitals 11
2. Maternity and Child Welfare-
Comment 13
(i) (a) Midwifery Service 15
(b) (i) Maternal Mortality 17
(ii) Infant Mortality 17
(iii) Puerperal Pyrexia 18
(ii) (a) Ante-Natal Services 18
(b) Post-Natal Services 21
(iii) Infant Welfare Services 21
(i) Domiciliary Visits 21
(ii) Infant Welfare Sessions 25
(iii) Voluntary Workers at Welfare Clinics 26
(iv) (a) Institutional Treatment for
Mothers and Children 26
(b) Day Nurseries 27
(c) Care of Premature Infants 29
(d) Care of Illegitimate Children 30
(v) Health Visitors 30
(vi) Child Life Protection 31
(vii) Treatment -
(a) Dental Treatment 32
(b) Ophthalmic 33
(c) Artificial sunlight 33
(d) Tonsils and Adenoids 33
(e) Orthopaedic Treatment 33
(f) Treatment of Scabies 34
(g) Convalescent Treatment 34
(h) Prevention of Infectious Diseases
(i) Diphtheria Immunisation 34
(ii) Vaccination 34