The Straits Settlements medical report.

  • Straits Settlements. Medical Department
Date:
[1912]
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Credit: The Straits Settlements medical report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A new appointment, Surgeon to the Hospital, has been sanctioned and Dr. Gray took up the duties, temporarily, on 13th June. The holder of this appointment will teach Surgery in the Medical School. Tan Tock Seng's Hospital, Singapore.—The number of in-patients treated at Tan Tock Seng’s Hospital is as follows :— 1909 1910 1911 1912 ... 8,858 9,978 ••• *3,398 ... 13,274 Steps are being taken for the erection of new servants’ quarters and to take over for patients the ward they now inhabit. Lunatic Asylum, Singapore.■—The average number of patients resident have steadily risen from 292 in 1907 to 393 in 1912, the latter number straining the accommodation to the extreme. The question of building a new asylum or erecting wards for chronic and irrecoverable patients at the Tanjong Rambutan Asylum, Federated Malay States, is under consideration. Additions to the nursing staff of both Singapore and Penang General Hospitals have been sanctioned. Durian Daun Hospital, Malacca.—New European wards are to be built next year and when completed will be placed in nursing charge of a sister and two probationers. Dr. Graham, f.R.C.S., has been appointed Honorary Surgeon to this hospital Jasin Hospital, Malacca.—This hospital is to be rebuilt on a larger scale and upon a healthier site in 1913. 20. The total treated and deaths in the hospitals of the Colony for some of the more important diseases I have touched on are shown in the subjoined statement with the corresponding diseases and deaths in 1911 :— Disease. 1911. 1912. Total treated. Deaths. Total treated. Deaths. Malarial Fever 12,029 1,014 9,474 660 Dysentery ... 2,268 996 1,845 654 Diarrhoea 1,146 332 940 235 Beri-beri 2,152 242 2,032 293 Phthisis and Tuberculosis C095 576 1,111 564 Enteric 186 102 *33 63 Ulcers 4,359 8 4,232 3 Venereal Diseases 2,789 40 3,522 39 Ankylostomiasis 619 150 919 173
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