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Table III: A summary of the work performed at the hospital and during weekly .and other visits for a period of five years ended 31st December, 1949, is set out below :

Table IV : The number of cases of infectious diseases occurring over the period <of the past five years are set out in the following table : —-

Details of the state of nutrition of the whole population are not available. There .are signs of malnutrition among children between the . ages of nine months and two years caused by early weaning and incorrect feeding. Child welfare work by the

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Year Ending 31st December, 1945. 1946. 1947. 1948. 1949. (a) Hospital and out-patients— In-patients Out-patients attendances Special visits Operations— Major .. .. .. \ Minor .. .. .. J Anaesthetics — General Local and regional Number of x-rays Daily bed average Average number of days in hospital 4b) Dental — Total number of patients Number of operations performed Number of extractions Number of fillings Miscellaneous prophylactic, scaling, Xrn 71 23,024 2,295 369 2 315 4-55 11-29 221. 139 21,839 1,891 137 29 134 6 10 950 699 j 26,3771 5,589J 260 119 100 16 8 1 i 317 403 29,663 13 205 88 114 17 16-3 15 2,970 5,149 1,237 1,345 2,567 1 313 11,727 1,835 6 180 67 97 223 14 15-8 4,085 6,099 1,483 1,567 3,049 Out. 4c) Child welfare and schools — Children and infants seen Visits to homes (d) Public health, &c.— Shipping visits Ships quarantined 11,456 11,260 755 12 9 14,561 455 16

Diseases. 1945. 1946. 1947. 1948. 1949. Yaws 1,038 1,173 1,218 327 229 'Tuberculosis (all forms) 26 13 27 65 47 Infective hepatitis (jaundice) 112 49 65 24 13 ■Gonorrhoea 44 171 88 26 82 'Typhoid fever 13 12 7 4 Infantile gastro-enteritis 72 5 Dysentery (unclassified) 5 Leprosy 1 2 2 Pneumonia and broncho-pneumonia 29 41 427 83 14 Puerperal fever 3 2 7 2 Varicella 25 5 8 1 5 Whooping-cough 606 237 Measles 3,056 Influenza 197 112 Widespread Ringworm 146 55 1,222 Widespread „ Scabies .. .. .. 166 163 33 Filaria 181 120 132 Prevalent Prevalent Myositis tropica .. .. 6 60 10 „ „ 'Tetanus 2 1