Annual report of the Medical Department / Colony of Singapore.

  • Singapore. Medical Department
Date:
[1951]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Department / Colony of Singapore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Government continues to give both organisations substantial financial support. The Association has undertaken to train all members of the Civil Defence Corps in First Aid. A Singapore Branch of the British Red Cross Society was inaugurated in 1950 and to help its work Government gave grants of $5,000 and $3,000 for the Red Cross hospital car service and a deaf children’s class respectively. The annual appeal raised a sum of over $76,000, a large part of which is for a handicapped children’s home. The work of the Branch included aid in emergencies, welfare work in hospitals, work for handicapped children and work for the aged—all social service work of the highest value and importance. Both these organisations play a really important part in the medical and social fields in the day-to-day life of the Colony. In times of trouble and in emergency they must take an essential place as an auxiliary to the estab¬ lished Medical and Social Welfare Departments. The St. John Ambulance must become the backbone of the Civil Medical Defence Scheme. These are recognised organisations in all civilised communities. Government Committees and Boards on which members of the public sit continue to play an important part in the medical and health development of the Colony. The Hospitals Board, the Tan Tock Seng Hospital Committee, the Medical Council, the Dental Board, the Pharmacy Board, the Nursing Board, the Nutrition Council and the Government Anti-Tuberculosis Advisory Board can be named in this connection. The Tan Tock Seng Hospital Com¬ mittee functions outside the Hospitals Board which deals with all the other leading hospitals of the city because this hospital continues on the basis of a charitable trust. It has retained its distinctive and individual character ever since 1851. The Public Health Conferences which have been a feature of the public health control of the Colony ever since the advent of the Civil Government in 1946 and the Venereal Disease Committee are composed of members of all the Services (Navy, Army and Air Force) in addition to the various Government Departments concerned. Representatives of the World Health Organisation, the Federation Medical Department and the Singapore City Council also sit on the former.
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