Medical report / British Honduras.

  • British Honduras. Medical Department.
Date:
[1950]
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Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: Medical report / British Honduras. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. of positives 88 Percentage of positives 30.34% 9. No. of complete Urine Analyses 4,879 Mental Hospital Male Female Total No. of inmates present at the beginning cf the year 49 36 85 No. of inmates admitted during the year 17 8 25 No. of inmates discharged during the year 11 5 16 No. of in'mates died during the year 6 9 15 No. of inmates remaining at the ending of the year 51 30 81 Of the number admitted during the year 13 were for observation and 11 were certified i s insane. Poor House Male Female Total No. of inmates present at the beginning of the year 39 25 64 No. of inmates admitted 31 16 47 No. of inmates discharged 8 7 15 No. of inmates aiea .. 22 16 38 No. of inmates at the ending of the year .. 40 19 59 Airport and Port Health Work. No cases of any of the Convention Diseases were seen in the Airport or any of the seaports and no quarantine restrictions were imposed against any country. A qualified nurse was attached to the Air¬ port to examine all incoming passengers. Maternal Hygiene. Clinics were held at seventeen centres throughout the Colony with a total of 6,248 attendances. In Belize the number of cases registered was 558. Child Hygiene. Clinics were held at nineteen centres with a total attend¬ ance of 48,189. In Belize clinics were held weekly at two clinics, one on the north side and the other on the south side of the city. The following statistics show the volume of the work done in Belize and prove the urgent necessity for a Health Centre. Mesopo¬ tamia Hudson Street Total No. of Clinics held 48 50 98 No. of new babies registered 336 319 655 No. of attendances 7,565 6,476 14,041 No. of medical examinations 408 366 774 No. of health visits to homes .. 1,395 1,317 2,712 No. of deaths .. 12 21 33 No- of deaths under 1 year of age 10 15 25 No. of pounds Powdered Milk distributed 163 243 406 No. of pints Cod Liver Oil distributed 157 127 284 No. of pounds Food Yeast 147 120 267 Feeding of School Children. It was possible to get assistance from UNICEF to feed 4,000 school children and 500 infants under one year of age for a period of one year. The number of school children on the roll exceeds 11,000 and of these it was possible to feed nearly 6,000 from government funds and UNICEF’s assistance as compared to 420 in 1949. A fund was started by Lady Garvey, wife of His Excellency the Governor, during the s^ear to augment the school feeding scheme and the Red Cross Society took over the feeding of the pre-school age group of children. Soup kitchens, preparing a hot mid-day meal, have been organised where this was found pos¬ sible. On the whole, a snack of milk, bread, margarine and fish liver oil capsules is bein^ <nven dailv throughout the school year to selected children. Parents are encouraged to assist the programme by contributing something in kind or labour, but the response has not been satisfactory. Encouraging reports have come from the schools regarding the physical and mental improvement of the children receiving this help. —7—