Annual report of the Medical Department / Colony of Singapore.

  • Singapore. Medical Department.
Date:
[1946]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Department / Colony of Singapore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A children’s Orthopaedic Hospital, previously run by St. Andrew’s Mission, was re-opened and equipped and had 60 beds. It treated 44 patients from its opening on 20th March, 1946, to the beginning of April, 1946. Middleton Hospital for infectious and contagious diseases was continued as an extension to Tan Tock Seng on 5th September, 1945, with 250 beds, and 976 cases received treatment in the seven months under review. A small hospital in Mandalay Road and a Chinese temple in Kim Keat Road were used to relieve the congestion in the main hospitals by supplying accommodation for old, decrepit, destitute and mental people. Mental Hospital, which had been used by the Japanese for cases which otherwise would have been treated in the General Hospital, was used parti}7 by the R.A.F. and partly for sick Japanese P.O.Ws. There was no accommo¬ dation for mental cases as such. Venereal Disease : This problem presented unusual features in view of the employment of prostitutes by the Japanese and the lack of any treatment facilities during the Occupation. Facilities for the treatment of venereal disease were provided at the follo¬ wing centres:— (1) Clinic and hospital accommodation in Middle Road Hospital. The Clinic and Hospital were opened for males on 18th October, 1945, and for females on 29th October, 1945. (2) Clinic at Kreta Ayer was opened for men and women of all nationa¬ lities on 18th October, 1945. (3) Ablution Centres at Kreta Ayer and Joo Chiat Road were opened on 18th October, 1945, and 20th October, 1945, respectively. Since the opening of the Clinic and Hospital in October, 1945, the total numbers of new cases treated up to 31st March, 1946, were as follows:— Males Females Total Chinese 1,211 612 1,823 Indians 654 42 696 Malays . . 161 179 340 Eurasians 26 26 52 Others .. 20 11 31 Total new cases . . 2,072 870 2,942 Of the total number of new cases treated, 801 were admitted to hospital The in-patients were made up as follows:— Males Females Total Chinese 103 404 507 Indians 59 34 93 Malays . . 16 143 159 Eurasians 1 26 27 Others . . 1 14 15 180 621 801 Total in-patients