Report. [1918]

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V.
DISPENSARIES.
The total number of dispensaries in operation during the year
was 88, distributed as follows:
In charge of physician. Davao........-......................... 4
Agusan....................................Lanao....- 1
Cotabato -------------------------. 1 Sulu - -........................................- -- -- - - -- — 4
Cotabato-1 Suru-4
Davao................. 3 Surigao......... --- —-—. 1
Lanao....-............................ 1 In charge of non-graduates.
M isam is.................... 5 Agusan.................................... 2
Sulu.........-.............................. 1 Bukidnon ------------------ 4
Surigao....................................... 4 Cotabato.............-......... 9
Zamboanga............................... 2 Lanao..................................... 8
In charge of graduate nzurse. Misamis...................................... 10
In charge of graduate nurse. Misamis-10
Sulu -..8-.-.... —.-....-.................... 8
A gusan................................... 2 Surigao..................................... 4
Cotabato..................................... 3 Zamboanga.............................. 10
It will be noted that the number of dispensaries during the
year is less than the number in 1917. The decrease is caused
mainly by the resignations of many dispensary -attendants, especially in the Province of Davao where better opportunities are
offered on private plantations to men with experience in conducting dispensaries. These attendants, whenever they find
better salaries with certain emoluments such as quarters, subsistence and the ownership of a piece of cultivated land, naturally
have to retire from the Government service to accept such better
remunerated offers.
Below is shown the consolidated report of dispensaries during
the year:
Number and diagnosis. Cases. Treatment.
1. Typhoid fever -------- -------- -.. - 72 15(
2 Typhus fever i --- —---—. --- — --------------------------------—.- 2 10
3. Relapsing fever ------------------—... --- —--------------- -------. 39 1 71
4. Malaria ~ 14,666 25,230
4a. Malaria Cachexia -. ----------—.l.. --- —------ 27 107
5. Smallpox ------------------------- --------------—. --- —--—..- 3.166 11,291
6. Measles ---------------------—. --- —---------- 182 705
7. Scarlet fever.. --- —-------------- 1i 3
8. Whooping cough ---- ------------------ 314 868
9a. Croup -------------------- -- --- --- --------- - 1 1
10. Influenza -. --- —-- ------------------—.. —.-. --- —---- ------—. 5, 090 7,636
11. Miliary fever. ---. ---.- --— I. --- —----.... ---- -- -----------.. ---- --. --- -.. 3 15
12. Asiatic cholera --------------—. --- —-—. ----------------------------- 66 90
13. Cholera nostras ---------------------- 5
14. Dysentery. ----. -—. --- —------------------—. ---. --- —----—. 818 2,135
15. Plague. 5 11
17. Leprosy ---------------- 40 1 446
18. Erysipelas -----------------—.... ---- -----.. ---.- - ----------------------- 13 27
19. Other epidemic diseases - ------------------------------------- 2-. 2,257 5,557
20. Purulent infection and septichaemia - ' — ---- ---.- 641 1,683
21. Glanders --- —. --- —--------—..-......... --- —---—. —.. 2 9
22. Anthrax ---------------------....- -------------------------- 18 114
23. Rabies -—.. —. --- ---------------------------------------— I 2 2 8
24. Tetanus --- - —... ---- - - --- -—. -.- 6 44
25. Mycoses -—. --- —---- - -- --------------------- - _, --- --- 19 94
26. Pellagra -—. --- —--------------- —..-... ---- -------------- 6 33
27. Beriberi -------— _.. — - -_. --- —-408 855
28. Tuberculosis of the lungs ----------.... --- —------—. —. --- —----- 361 867