Annual medical and sanitary report / Trengganu.

  • Terengganu. Medical Department.
Date:
[1934]
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Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Trengganu. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (2) The following is a summary of the work done at the dispensaries of Besut, Dungun and Kemaman:— Blood.—950 examinations of the blood of which 291 were positive comprising Subtertian malaria . . 120 My Benign tertian .152 bU, Quartan .13 U Subtertian and benign tertian 5 Benign tertian and quartan « 1 Sputum.—Out of 43 specimens examined for the tubercle bacillus, 12 were found to be positive. Nasal and other smears for the lepra bacillus.—Out of three slides examined, one was positive. Urine.—Chemical examinations 155; microscopical examinations 12. Faeces for ova and parasites.—Out of 825 examinations, 642 were positive and the findings were:— Ankylostoma 29 Ascaris 239 Trichocephalus dispar 20 Entamoeba hystolytica 32 Ankylostoma and ascaris 28 Ankylostoma, ascaris and trichocephalus dispar 167 t/' Ankylostoma and trichocephalus dispar 8 Ascaris and trichocephalus dispar nV VIII. PRISONS AND ASYLUMS (a) PRISONS. The only prison, in the true sense of the term, in the state is that at Kuala Trengganu where there is an eight-bedded ward for male prisoners. There is no hospital accommodation for women and if any of the few female prisoners fall seriously ill, they are sent to the Kuala Trengganu hospital for treatment. In-patients.—There were 41 (47) admissions with 2 (2) deaths one of which was due to amoebic dysentery and the other to sarcoma of the neck. Out-patients.—The number of prisoners treated as out-patients was 458 (306). N. B. The daily average number of prisoners in 1934 was 109.09. This number includes lunatics (v.i.). (b) ASYLUMS. Lunatics.—There is no separate asylum for mentally deranged patients in Trengganu and they are confined in cells within the prison compound. The total number of cases treated was 74 (53) including 14 (9) females. A number of them were under observation only and others were cases of mental defect not amounting to insanity. At the end of the year, five Chinese males and one Siamese female were being maintained at the expense of the State in the Mental Hospital at Singapore. A male Sikh patient who was being maintained in the Tanjong Rambutan Mental Hospital, Perak was discharged on 28/8/1934. The prejudice against sending Malay lunatics out of the State is decreasing and it is proposed to send more Malays for treatment to the Singapore Mental Hospital in 1935 if they can be admitted.