Annual report on the Medical Department / Straits Settlements.

  • Straits Settlements. Medical Department
Date:
[1928]
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Credit: Annual report on the Medical Department / Straits Settlements. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 13- The figures of the different classes of Prisoners are shown from the following tables : — Criminals Civil Vagrants (a) Total population in Prison ... 5.232 6,816 1.057 (b) Average daily number in Prison 1,001 251-8 100 (c) Total treated^ in Prison Hospital 874 85 144 {d) Percentage of c to a 16-7 1-9 13-6 (c) Total deaths in Hospital . . 21 3 4 14. Six hundred and thirty-seven prisoners were examined for Wassermann during the year. Of these 341 were positive giving a percentage of 53*5 and 296 were negative. Out of the positive Wassermann cases 194 were willing to receive N.A.B. injections; of these a good many refused to have the full course. Four hundred and eighty-nine N.A.B. injections and two hundred and seventy-eight Bismo-Stab injections were given during the year. (b) Penang Prison 1. Admissions.— (a) There were ii cases remaining in Plospital at the beginning of the year. Two hundred and seventy-six cases were admitted during the year, making a total of 287 cases treated in all, as compared with 172 cases in 1927. (b) The daily average number of sick for the year was 12-29 as com¬ pared with 10-21 for the previous year. 2. Diseases.—The principal diseases treated among the inpatients were— Malaria 67, Tuberculosis 17 ; Venereal Diseases 14; Diseases of the Respiratory System 22; Bowel disorders 37; Ankylostomiasis 5; Skin Distases 49; Injuries 3- 3. Deaths.— (а) There were six deaths during the year with a death-rate of 2-09% as compared with eight deaths and a death-rate of 4’65% of previous year. (б) The causes of death were—Tuberculosis one; Debility one; Heart Failure one; Pneumonia one; Diarrhoea one; Dysentery one. 4. Out-Patients.— (а) Two thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven cases were treated as Out-patients during the year as compared with 1,292 cases in the previous year. The average daily attendance was 32-05. The principal diseases treated among Out-patient’s were— (б) Venereal Diseases 280; Opium habit 205; Diseases of Respiratory System 382; Bowel Disorders 431; Skin Diseases 457; Wounds and Injuries 177. 5. ]]'assermann Reaction.— (a) One thousand one hundred and eighty-six specimens of blood were taken for the Wassermann test as compared with 997 in 1927. (b) Three hundred and twenty-two gave a positive result as against 274 in the previous year. (r) Two hundred and ninety-one intravenous injections of N.A.B. were given as against 240 in 1927. {d) One thousand and fifty-five bismuth preparations were given as against nil in 1927-
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