Annual medical and sanitary report / Trengganu.

  • Terengganu. Medical Department.
Date:
[1928]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Trengganu. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Property. Total number of Europeans. Number of European sick. Total number of days sick. Kretay Plantations Freda Tin Mine Bunch Tin Mine 12 2 No 5 Nil. t available. 27 Nil. (3) European Officials.—European Officials reside in the towns along the sea boards, which provide excellent health conditions. In the course of duty European officials proceed inland, for varying periods, to the several parts of the State where conditions are primitive, and not without danger to health. In spite of this however the sick rate is low. Two officials have had recurrent attacks of malaria which from clinical evidence appear to be relapses of an infection contracted before arrival in Trengganu. Table showing the Sick, Invaliding, and Death Rates of European Officials. Trengganu. 1928. Total number of Officials resident 20 Average number resident . . 16 Total number on Sick List . . 4 Total number of days on Sick List 33 Average daily number on Sick List . . .09 Percentage of sick to average number resident 25 Average number of days on Sick List for each patient . . 8.25 Average sick time to each resident . . 2.06 Total number invalided Nil. Percentage of Invalidings to total residents Nil. Total deaths Nil. Percentage of Deaths to total residents Nil. Percentage of Deaths to total average number resident Nil. Number of cases of sickness contracted away from residence Nil. (4) Native Officials.—A register of native officials is not available. The total number of native officials treated during the year was 3,947 including 1,331 Police. 3 native officials were invalided from the service during the year. III. HYGIENE AND SANITATION. (a) General review of work done and progress made. The Government of the Straits Settlements has not yet been able to second a health officer for service in Trengganu. The appointment was approved eighteen months ago. During the year the work of sanitation has been maintained. The Town Board in each of the principal towns viz.: at Kuala Trengganu, Chukai, Dungun, and Besut has continued routine work, but little progress can be expected until expert direction, and supervision is instituted. The improvement in the standard of living noted last year still continues. Attention to personal hygiene is producing a more refined sense of dignity amongst the better class native, and is slowly making him dissatisfied with the dirt and untidiness in which he has been born and bred. (I) Preventive Measures. Malaria.—The prevention of malaria is still a serious problem for the Public Works Department on the road construction now proceeding. Coolies are being imported for this work, and measures are being considered to deal with the proper housing and care of them. On the large rubber estate at Kretay an energetic programme of sanitation, and prevention is being carried out. The Proprietors have sanctioned a reorganization of the medical and sanitary service on the Estate. The difficulty of obtaining trained personnel is a matter of concern, but there are prospects of this being overcome. Systematic oiling, and draining have been introduced. Old insanitary cooly lines have been abondoned. New cooly lines on sanitary principles have been erected. Centralization of cooly lines on healthy sites has been adopted.
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