Annual report of the Medical Department / North Borneo.

  • North Borneo. Medical Department.
Date:
[1953]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Department / North Borneo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lc General* The system of recording morbidity and morta¬ lity emonif hospital patients, according to the Intermediate List of the international Statistical Glassification, 1948, was again followed* Separate returns were kept for those stations which were supervised by a doctor and those which were not* At the seven stations at which a resident medical officer charge a total of 72,722 out-patients were treated. Of was in -- - - . which 42,106 were first attendances, were 8,13& admissions to Hospital is to be found at Appendix A* in the same group there An analysis of these cases 3. At stations where there was no resident doctor during the period under review there was recorded a total of 161,178 out patient-cases, of which 111,219 were new cases. In this group 2,280 patients entered hospital. u # There was thus a grand total of 233*898 out-patients and 10,416 in-patients treated during the year. This compares with 218,677 out-patients and 9,590 in-patients in 1951* Moreover, a proportionately higher number of those treated came under the attention of a doctor than in the previous year. Table I* r ~ 1951 j Un-Supervised ‘ Supervised Stations ; Stations Total : Out-patients • New Cases • « 101,801 | 30,351 132^152 : : Out-patients : Repeat Gases • 0 66,471 : 20,054 86,525 : Total : Out-patients • 166,272 50,405 218,677 s \ Admitted to Hospital 3,533 6,057 9*590 : _ » 19 5 2 Un-Supervised Stations Supervised Stations To t al 1 : Out-patients : New Cases 111,219 42,106 153*325 ; : Out-patients • Repeat Cases 49*957 30,616 80,573 : 1 Total Out-patients 161,176 72,722 233,898 ; : Admitted to Hospital 2,280 8,136 - 10,416 :