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(c) The Police Clinic.
The above summary shows a total decrease of one thousand out-patients on the previous
year, which points to improved health. Reliable comparisons on last year regarding malaria
cannot be obtained, but their numbers have dropped quite markedly. Eye disease is not common
and gives relatively little trouble, and this in large measure is due to the strict medical examina­
tion they have to undergo when recruited. Venereal disease is still causing some concern, and
special examinations for this will be coming into being at regular intervals, when the whole
Force will be seen. It is hoped that these figures will be reduced when those harbouring the
disease are under regular treatment and control.
On the whole their health is good, and the out-patient work consists largely of treating
petty ailments such as traumatic ulcers, coughs, colds and injuries.
Forty-five in-patients were admitted up to the time of closure of the Police Hospital, and
now all cases arc admitted into the main Hospital. Admission in the past was usually for malaria,
venereal disease, and severe traumatic skin lesions especially from the cavalry section. This is so
now, but others arc being treated surgically for piles, fistula-in-ano, and hernia.
The prisoners come with such ailments as ulcers of the leg, dysentery, venereal disease,
and chest complaints, and many of them have to be admitted for these diseases.
One of the most satisfactory features of this clinic has been the fact that all patients must
attend regularly until they are cured. The disease can therefore be followed through from start
to finish, and better lines of treatment can therefore be laid down.

Summary of Male In-Patient
Diseases for 1359 (1941)
1.—Asthma 12
II.—Carditis 6
III. —Dermatitis 6
IV. —Dysentery 36
V.—Eyes 205
VI. —Fractures 6
VII. —Hernia
4
VIII.—Injuries 11
IX.—Malaria and Spleen
37
X.—Mumps
3
XI.—Piles 72
Fistula 10
XII.—Pneumonia
4
XIII. —Syphilis 21
Gonorrhoea
13
XIV. —Ulcer and Abcess and Boil
49
XV.—Unclassified 107

Total ... 602

Deaths
24