Annual departmental report by the Director of Medical and Health Services / Hong Kong.

  • Hong Kong. Medical Department.
Date:
[1953]
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Credit: Annual departmental report by the Director of Medical and Health Services / Hong Kong. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    provision, for individuals who qualify, of hawkers licences, although, in view of the competition in this sphere, it is not easy to make a livelihood in this way. These facts contribute materially to the tuberculosis problems, increase the relapse rate and constitute a major worry for the Almoners’ department. 163. The work of the Almoners’ Department is summarized below: — Number of patients interviewed . 12,116 Admissions to hospitals arranged . 773 Transfers between tuberculosis hospitals . 238 Blood donors arranged . 44 Number of families given financial assistance . 101 Average weekly grant . $23.02 Milk powder distributed (1 lb. per patients per week) 14,940 Home visits . 606 Hawkers Licences obtained . 29 Patients (or relatives) placed in employment . 11 Tuberculosis Visitors. 164. The Tuberculosis Visitors, 23 in number, work under the direction of the Almoners. These girls have no training in nursing but have had special training within the Department to equip them for the work. Their principal functions are to make reports on home conditions, to arrange contact examina¬ tions, and to educate the patient, in his own home, in simple methods of limiting spread of infection. In addition to the visitation of cases attending the clinics, visits are also made to cases of tuberculosis notified from other sources. 165. A summary of work done by this staff is as follows:—- Total number of first visits made . 10,083 Total number of revisits . 3,315 Addresses not found . 1,401 Contact examinations arranged . 11,980 Number of patients known to have— (а) Died . 1,114 (б) Left the Colony .+. 289