The Straits Settlements medical report.

  • Straits Settlements. Medical Department.
Date:
[1910]
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Credit: The Straits Settlements medical report. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vaccinated (exclusive of those performed in the Prisons and Quarantine Stations) with the result in the different Settlements during 1910:— Settlement. Number of Vaccina¬ tions performed. Result. Perfect. Modified. Failed. Not seen. Singapore * 5,146 5,046 ... 10 90 Penang 2,725 2,270 207 142 106 Province Wellesley 7,121 5,660 341 478 642 Malacca 5.763 4,757 331 637 38 Labuan 235 223 12 ... Total ... 20,990 17,956 879 1,279 876 Four private vaccinators were licensed to practise in Singapore. 30. Quarantine.—The number of passengers and crew examined on arrival in Singapore were 364,720 and 103,148, respectively, against 214,321 and 77,304, respectively, in 1909. hi Penang.—One hundred and sixty-eight thousand two hundred and sixteen passengers and 49,751 crew were examined on arrival. The number of passengers detained for observation or treatment was the largest for the last ten years. The new Quarantine Station, Pulau Jerejak, was nearly completed by the end of the year. The largest number on the Quarantine Island on any one day was 5,518 and 5,574 in Singapore and Penang respectively. 31. Government Analyst's Department.—The revenue collected in Singapore amounted to $13,015 as compared with $11,525 in 1909. The Department was short-handed for a portion of the year and a certain amount of work had to be refused. In Penang $4,037 were collected as against $2,190 in 1909. 32. Medical School.—Eighteen new students joined during the year for the full course of five years, of whom two were females, making in all 72 students in training for the L. M. S. Diploma. The year was an important one in the history of the school as it was marked by the completion of the first full course of study. At the close of the short session (May, 1910) seven students received their diplomas at a prize distri¬ bution at which Sir John ANDERSON was present and at the end of the long session (December, 1911) at which Dr. GILMORE Ellis presided six more graduated. A much-needed extension to the school was enabled to be begun by means of a sum of $10,000 given by Mr. Tan CHAY Yan of Malacca and was nearing completion at the end of the year. It provides for a Museum, Lecture Room, Library and Reading- room with Office, Store, etc. It is hoped to increase the permanent teaching staff of the school in the near future. 33. Pathological Department.— One thousand seven hundred and forty-three autopsies were performed during the year as compared with 1,612 in 1909. No special research work was undertaken during the year. 34. Medical Department, Labuan.—The death-rate and birth-rate were 32‘56 and 28-66, respectively, as against 23‘93 and 22’23 in 1909. The principal causes of deaths were Tuberculosis 28, Beri-beri 18, Diarrhoea 14, Fever 64. There were no epi¬ demic diseases during the year. Four hundred and forty-six patients were treated as out-patients, excluding Police and prisoners. Three hundred and thirty-eight patients were treated in the Government Hospital as against 307 in 1909 of whom six were Europeans. A new Prison ward was built and attached to the hospital sufficient to contain eight beds. * Includes 97 vaccinations done by private medical men.