Intergovernmental conference of Far-Eastern countries on rural hygiene : preparatory papers : report of the Malayan delegation / League of Nations, Health Organisation.

Date:
1937
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Credit: Intergovernmental conference of Far-Eastern countries on rural hygiene : preparatory papers : report of the Malayan delegation / League of Nations, Health Organisation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the confidence of the people must be obtained. Most of the locally trained assistants are Malays. A sound training is necessary ; but, so far, only a short course at the State-owned buffalo farm has been available, supplemented by such training and instruction as the veterinary surgeon himself has been able to give in the course of ordinary work. (6) School-teachers. The principles of hygiene and sanitation are taught practically and theoretically in every Malay vernacular school, use being made of the ‘‘ [lmu Kesihatan’’ (*‘ The Science of Health ’’), a work in two volumes, totalling some 300 pages, that deals fully and satisfactorily, within its limits as a text-book for elementary schools, with the body and its physiology, nutrition, clothing, sanitation, diseases, etc. The teachers are expected to put into practice in their schools and in their own homes the principles that are set out in that text-book, and they generally do so quite satisfactorily. They advise their pupils to follow these principles, and, as far as they can, they see that the pupils do follow them. 3. CURATIVE AND PREVENTIVE ACTIVITIES. Prior to the war, transport in rural areas was mainly effected by rail, bullock-cart or gharry. Motor transport was in its infancy and was the monopoly of the rich. In those days it was necessary, therefore, to provide, in addition to the general hospitals situated in the capital of each settlement and State, a number of small district hospitals and outdoor dispensaries, situated at convenient places and distances. With the rapid advent of motor facilities since the termination of the great war, the policy of the Medical Department is to provide one large and up-to-date hospital in each settlement and State and to close down, in so far as is possible, the small district hospitals as hospitals and use them as outdoor dispen- saries and collecting-stations for the main hospitals, to which patients can be evacuated by means of motor ambulance.
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