Annual public health report of the Province of Bihar.

  • Bihar (India). Public Health Department.
Date:
[1940]
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Credit: Annual public health report of the Province of Bihar. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The municipalities of Ranchi, Darbhanga, Purulia and Dhanbad and the Patna Administration Committee also continued to maintain a midwifery «erylce for their respective areas. The Maternity and Child Welfare work was carried on efficiently in the centre at Muzaffarpur. 15 dais were trained in this centre out of whom 11 passed. In Monghyr the work of the Lady Stephenson Maternity and Child Welfare centre showed good progress, the percentage of visitors being higher than that in previous year. Training was given to the dais and children and ante-natal cases were examined by the visiting doctor of the centre. The daily average attendance of children who got milk was about 95. The children were given bath at the centre twic9 a week, given clean kurtas and weighed on every Wednesday. The Maternity centre at Purnea which was started in 1938 is managed by a working committee consistiag of the District Magistrate, as ex-officio President, the Civil Surgeon as ex-officio Secretary and the chairman, muni¬ cipality, as ex-officio Honorary Treasurer with four members nominated by the municipality and two lady members nominated by the Provincial Branch of Maternity Centre. The lady doctor of the Purnea Sadr Hospital worked as the Maternity Supervisor. A baby clinic styled as “Lady Hallett Clinic ” was opened in January 1910. The Maternity Supervisor visited 1,671 houses and attended 147 ante-natal cases and also 1,350 children and 606 infants at their homes Total number of infants and children that received care at the clinic were 2,197 and 2,244, respectively. Jugsalai.—The Jugsalai centre in charge of the Medical Officer, Jugsalai dispensary, as its Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, did valuable work throughout the year. The Lady Visitor of this centre satisfactorily carried on the duty of regular home visiting and keeping close watch on expectant mothers and the children of the locality. She also toured in adjoining bustees and explained to the people the general hygienic principles of mother¬ hood and the advantage of the Maternity and Child Welfare centre. Quite a number of ante-natal and post-natal oases and children attended the centre and got valuable help. Ranchi.—Valuable work was done in the Ranchi centre. One dai was trained and passed the examination. The Lady Health Visitor of the centre did valuable service to the people attending the centre. Cold weather frocks were given to several children and blankets to some persons. Sweets were also distributed on some occasions. The Health Visitor carried out all duties most methodically and kept the premises and quarters in order. A few oi the local bodies entertained special midwives for maternity work in their respective localities. They also did quite good work iu their own sphere. In Jharia, there were three circles each in charge of a qualified Lady Health Visitor. There are 11 centres under these three circles. All these centres continued to do good work under the guidance of the Chief Medical Officer, Jharia Mines Board of Health. The whole cost was met by the Board. The Executives in charge of the Provincial Victoria Memorial Scholarship Eucd made a grant of Rs. 450 towards the cost of the training of dais. CHAPTER VII. School Hygiene and Medical Inspection op School Child hen. 1. The Government are maintaining a special staff of officers for the medical examination of scholars of the high English schools since 1920. This system was subsequently extended to the middle English schools at places where there is also a high English school. There is a staff of one school medical officer of assistant surgen grade and one assittant school medical officer of sub-assistant surgeon class in each of the four divisions of the province. These officers visit, all the high schools and most of the middle English schools in their respective divisions. There is one Lady School Medical Officer for Bihar who carries on medical inspection of various girls’ schools in the province. Besides these some of the medical officers of health of the district boards, also carry out medical examination of the students of the middle schools which are situated at places where there is no high school.