Annual report / Municipality of Singapore, Health Department.

  • Singapore. Municipality Health Department.
Date:
[1952]
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Credit: Annual report / Municipality of Singapore, Health Department. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HEALTH OF STAFF AVERAGE STRENGTH OF JUNIOR SUBORDINATE AND OPEN VOTES STAFF, 1952 (a) Approximate average number of Junior and Subordinate Staff employed excluding females ... ... ... 2,050 ib) Approximate average number of 0])en Vote employees exclud¬ ing females and juveniles ... ... ... 8,363 (Above figures supplied by Welfare Officer). Staff (a) Open Votes (b) Total (a) and <*> Number of new cases attended to at dispensaries 4,445 32,510 36,955 Total number of attendances including first visits, at dispensaries 8,762 87,262 96,024 Number examined for physical fitness 457 1,678 2,135 Number of visits paid to homes by M.O. i/c. Staff 32 21 53 Number of cases treated by Private Doctors 1,454 3,345 4,799 Number of days sick leave granted including special T.B. leave by:— (a) M.Os. i/c. Staff 8,937 91,604 100,541 * (6) Private Practitioners 4,191 12,003 16,194 (c) Hospitals 2,963 10,256 13,219 Total 16,091 113,863 129,954 Number of days special T.B. leave granted 547 4,681 5,228 Average number of days sick leave including T.B. leave, granted per male person employed in Junior, Sub¬ ordinate and Open Votes Staff in 1952 7.84 13.6 12.4 The points of special interest or importance in connection with the workin of the Department during the year were as follows: — TYPHOID In last year’s report reference was made to 30 persons who develope typhoid a short while after having partaken of a big dinner which was supplie by a food caterer. Early this year 20 persons who attended another big dinne contracted typhoid shortly afterwards. On investigation it was found that tl caterer who supplied this dinner had also supplied the dinner previously r< ferred to. The caterer was asked to furnish a list of all the persons who too part in the preparation and serving of the dinner this year and all of thes were examined. One of them proved to be a typhoid carrier. This carrier ha been overlooked and not examined on the previous occasion when we examine the caterer’s employees as for some reason or other his name was not the included on the list of employees furnished by the caterer.