Annual report of the Mysore Department of Health.

  • Mysore (India : State). Department of Health.
Date:
[1954]
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Credit: Annual report of the Mysore Department of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The question of undertaking rural health studies under the auspices of the World Health Organisation in Ramanagaram Health Training Centre area is under active consideration of the international body. To participate in an enquiry sponsored by the World Health Organisation is a fitting recognition of the quality of rural health turned out so far at Ramanagaram Health Training Centre, since its inception in 1936. The objective of the local health study is to further the knowledge on optimal development of an effective health service for raising the health levels of the people in local communities in order to enable the Organisation to best assist Governments in developing their local health services. The approach to this goal will be through the co-ordination, encouragement and promotion of research or field investigation, with a view— (1) to study the measurement of health and factors affecting commu¬ nity, family and individual health ; (2) to elicit methods of practical application of the guiding principles enunciated above and any others that might be evolved from the study ; (3) to work out measures for organising integrated health services ; (4) to determine how development in health can be most effectively co-ordinated with social, cultural and economic develop¬ ments ; and (5) to discover ways of assessing the efficacy of different types of health services. During the year under report the staff of the Centre were on duty as detailed in the following statement. Staff on duty (in man days) during the calendar year 1954. Serial No Staff * No. No. of working days No. of days on duty Per cent Remarks 1951 1952 1953 1954 1 Health Officer 1 365 350 | 100 100 100 96 . a Assistant Health Officer 1 365 350 94 68 100 97 3 Senior Health Inspectcrs 6 2,190 1,848 92 93 87 84 5Sr. Health Inspectors were working during the previous years. A Public Health Nurse 5 1,825 1,596 82 100 100 87 6 Junior Health Inspectors 3 1,095 1,027 97 93 88 94 1 Jr. Health Inspector was working during the previous years. 6 Midwives 19 6,935 6,274 95 91 81 90 7 Ministerial staff 3 1,095 1,070 95 97 90 98 2 Clerks were working during the previous year. 8 Assistant Medical Officer 1 365 365 95 100 88 100 of Health. 9 Compounders 2 730 730 • • • 90 100 • • • • 10 Lady Assistant Surgeon 1 365 365 • i • 100 100 Working since April 1953. 31 Lady Compounder ... 1 365 36 5 • • • 4 4 • 100 100 Do 12 Vaccinator 1 365 348 ... 4 4 4 ... 96 rJL'6tal 44 16,060 14,693 93 • 94 92 91 l v .... . ' . .: . . . anaxattk