Annual report on the Medical Department, Brunei.

  • Brunei. Medical Department.
Date:
[1929]
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Credit: Annual report on the Medical Department, Brunei. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    19/28 (page 13)
    VI.—DISPENSARIES (a) Out-Door Dispensary Out patients are attended to at the Government Hospital. Total number of patients treated during the year were 5,872 with 12,587 attendances as compared with 1,321 patients treated with 3,432 attendances during the previous year. The increase is entirely due to the new appointment of a Resident Medical Officer for Brunei. All the natives were treated free and were even seen in their houses when so required. Common causes of illness of those treated were : — Fever (unclassified) Dysentery and Diarrhoea Yaws Beri-beri Rheumatism Affection of the eye Bronchitis Gastric disorders ... Round-worm infections mary) ... Skin diseases Ulcers Wounds ... (pri- 640 Percentage 10*89 3*25’ 176 3W 3*95 . 3‘57 6-85 6-85 191 103 208 232 210 402 399 40 492 589 372 y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y ’ 7*04 8*82 10*00 6'34 The following table shows the nature of the patients treated: — Number of indigent patients ... ... 4,652 Number of Government Officers ... ... 690 Number of Paying patients ... ... 530 Average number of visits per month ... 1,048 Number of males ... ... ... 4,533 Number of females ... ... ... 1,339 Two hundred and twenty-six injections of Neo Salvasan were given for Cases of Yaws. (b) Travelling Dispensary Fifteen centres were visited once a week by a second grade Dresser and free treatments were given. Schools, Police stations and houses of headmen were used as centres. It is part of the routine duty of the Dresser to do propaganda work to promote sanitation in rural Districts. Total number of patients treated was 2,780 as compared with 1,161 during the previous year.