Report of the Medical Officer of Health / Municipality of Colombo.

  • Colombo (Sri Lanka). Public Health Department
Date:
[1943]
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Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health / Municipality of Colombo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    As it is so difficult to set a wheel in motion now, nothing new was undertaken or done. Our earnest attention has therefore been to foster, maintain, and preserve the service in its efficiency and usefulness. You will share my conviction that in this we have more than succeeded. J. E. D, MENDIS, March 22, 1944. Medical Officer, Maternity and Child Welfare. 2 6. Annex a re B. TUBERCULOSIS SERVICE. REPORT OF WORK DONE DURING THE YEAR 1943. 1. Total number of patients seen ... 841 {g] sequent visits ((1) Diagnosed as Pulmonary Tuberculosis New cases ... 36CH (2) Diagnosed as Non-tubercnlar (other diseases) .. 1(3) Cases under observation 3. Contact examinations ... 1,223 Positive6 ( (1) Sputum 4. Diagnostic aid used ] ® Faeces (3) Urine V (4) X’Rays* 5. Disposal of cases ... 102 f(l) Males (hospitalized) (<2) Females Tv i _ , ,. , lftQl(l) Number traced and seen by Health Visitors isc lai^ec pa ten s . {(2) Number untraced or gone outstation (1) Number of visits paid to families by Health Visitors ... ... ... 5,172 (2) Number of visits paid to families by Special Officer, Chest Diseases ... ... 402 (3) Number of families recommended for relief from Tuberculosis Vote ... ... 61 (4) Total amount spent on Tuberculosis relief, 1943 ... ... Rs. 3,832*50 8. Number of patients isolated in their homes under domiciliary supervision 231 9. Health Education and Propaganda :— (1) Advice to patients and their friends. (2) Leaflets distributed among patients and the public. (3) Film lecture on “ Prevention of Tuberculosis” at the Central Y. M. C. A. (4) Film lecture on “The place of a Preventorium in the care of highly infected children ” at the Colombo Rotary Club. MILANIUS DE ALMEIDA, March 29, 1944. Special Officer, Chest Diseases. 360 481 158 88 114 1,021 202 222 21 1 101 91 11 58 51 7. Care and after-care\ Annexure C. REPORT OF THE CITY MICROBIOLOGIST FOR 1943. The depression referred to in my last report was overcome in the year 1943. The number of clinical specimens rose from 4,639 to 6,134. The main increase was connected with the serological examination of typhoid and malaria represented by over 1,500 and over 1,900 specimens respectively. As regards the latter, the death of our closest clinical collaborator, Dr. G. A. W. Wickremasuriya, who helped us to develop the test and never missed an opportunity to propagate the knowledge of the test, leaves a gap which we cannot hope to fill easily. I should like to take this opportunity to pay homage to his untiring interest in scientific progress and broadmindedness of outlook. But for his enthusiasm and his unfailing readiness to collaborate we should have found it very difficult indeed to assess the value of the test and introduce it to a larger circle of medical men. ueted by Special Officer, Chest Diseases. 22501406804
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