Annual report of the Mysore Department of Health.

  • Mysore (India : State). Department of Health
Date:
[1932]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report of the Mysore Department of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    36/202 page 24
    Civic and Social Progress Association, Mysore.—During the year under report, 1,874 ordinary baths and 1,8J 5 oil-baths were given to the children attending the centre The average daily attendance at the centre was 25. Three thousand two hundred and eighty-one and quarter seers of milk were distributed to poor children. The nurse in charge conducted two labour cases and vaccinated 26 children. Civic and Social Progress Association, Bangalore.— This Association runs a milk centre and a baby clinic at which antenatal clinics are also held. The average daily attendance of babies at the centre is 40. These are given baths daily and oil-baths occasionally. The honorary lady doctor prescribes the feeds, notes down the progress in weight and attends to minor ailments. Milk to the value of about Rs, 1,000 was distributed. The lady doctor held 12 clinics and examined 910 expectant mothers. The nurse in charge paid 60 domiciliary visits and conduc¬ ted 38 labour cases. Eight children were vaccinated at the centre. Sree Cunamba Maternity and Childwelfare Trust, Mysore.-— In the month of March 1932, two more centres, the Subrarnanya Milk Centre and Mailamma Milk Centre, were opened in addition to the three already existing. A creche was also opened in the third quarter of the year in the Sri Krishnarajendra Cotton Mills. Thirty-seven thousand three hundred and thirty-two ordinary and 5,983 oil-baths were given to the children attending the centres. The honorary lady doctors held clinics which were very popular. They held 25 antenatal and 28 baby clinics, examining 2u3 pregnant women and 943 children. They also treated 11,658 children for minor ailments. The average daily attendance at the clinics was 60.^ All children attending were fed on pure cow’s milk. The nurses in charge paid 694 domiciliary visits and conducted 466 labour cases. They also did 381 primary vaccinations. Childwelfare Centres, Kolar Gold Field.—All the four centres were working during the year under review. Five thousand four hundred and thirty-two children were given daily baths and 1,181 were treated for minor ailments. 1 he Lady Health. Visitor and nurses paid 2,641 pre-labour and 3,199 post-labour visits. Mahila Seva Sama]a. Bangalore —Ante-natal and baby c mics were regularly held every week by Dr. Miss Rozario
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3