Annual report on the work of the Ministry of Public Health / Egypt.

  • Egypt. Wizārat al-Ṣiḥḥah al-ʻUmūmīyah
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[1931]
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Credit: Annual report on the work of the Ministry of Public Health / Egypt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER VI SOCIAL HYGIENE (1) Venekeal Diseases Hospitals and Clinics. The number of hospitals and clinics for the treatment of venereal diseases stands as it was in last year. The following statistical details show the dates of their construction and the number of beds they contain :—- Table No. XXV ♦ Number in New Units Total 1925 1936 \m 1928 1939 1930 1931 Venereal diseases hospitals . 2 -- — — — 1 -- 3 Venereal diseases outpatients clinics ... 2 — 4 4 4 — — 14 Number of beds . 423 —. •— — — (A) — 423 (A) Number of beds includes that of Suez General Hospital. Patients’ Treatment. The number of patients treated from venereal diseases amounted to 5,464 in the in¬ patients Departments as compared with 5,639 in last year with a decrease of 3*2 per cent. The number of patients treated at the outpatients clinics was 42,024 as compared to 33,363 in last year (with an increase of 25 per cent), while the number of hospitals and clinics remained as it was last year. The following list shows details of the work carried out Table No. XXVI In-patients Outpatients Syphilis Gonorrhoea Total Syphilis Gonorrhoea Total General Hospitals . 731 1,771 2,502 10,119 4,753 14,872 Venereal and Lock Hospitals . 1,616 1,346 2,962 — — — Outpatient clinics for venereal diseases — — — 1,0332 16,820 27,152 Total. 2,347 3,117 5,464 20,451 21,573 42,024 (2) Chest Diseases New Units. It was already stated in last year’s report that a site had been provisionally selected at Suez for the erection of a tuberculosis sanatorium. On re-examining this subject, how¬ ever, the Department did not arrive at a final decision as there are other localities from which a more suitable site for the purpose may be selected. The Daqahlieh Provincial Council has presented a piece of land for the erection thereon of a new dispensary for chest diseases at Mansoura.^ X-Pay Apparatus. X-Ray apparatuses were installed in each of the two chest diseases dispensaries of Cairo.
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