A typical work load of a district dentist is shown by the followin
dental treatmentstatistics for Ponape from January through Novemb«
1949;
Number of patients seen ..........
Se
eee eee
re
....
Simple extractions...............2-..Dee eee eee eee
Impactions 06 eee
Oral prophylaxis... 0002.
ee
ae
Abscessed teeth treated. 0 0 eee eee
Gingivitis treated .. 2.0... eee een
Amalgam restorations
TSUrface eee ae
Zsurfaces. eae
Cement restorations
Oxygen Phosphate 0 cee eee
Silicate. 0 es a
Regional anaesthesia................. eee ee
Intra oral X-rays... 0 ee Loe,
Cases requiring prosthesis.........00........0 00.0.0 eee eee eee
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In-Patient treatments
1948
Saipan...
|
...
Palau...... . ...
Truk. ...0.....
Ponape. .
..
Majuro..
-
728
1,236
1,723 |
1,280 1
898°
|
|i
|
'
1949 | 1950 |
Qut-Patient treatments
1951
14,735 |*53, 585 [*41,200
22,644 | 20,030
6,273 | 6,733
7,184: 6,917)
2,337 3,415
°
1948
4,500
.
25,950 17, 220|
18,916 > 26,960
5,785 - 12,960
4,032 ' 5,892
1949
11,499
|!
1950
13,833,
1951
6,0
7,354
8,710) 10, 5¢
57,095 63,256 ' 52,5¢
10,886 11,998
13, 87
35,115 25, 831
8, 46
*Figures include treatment of leprosarium patients.
Subdispensaries
The subdispensaries on the outlying atolls and islands were usuall
small, one room wooden structures, staffed with one or mor
indigenous health aides or nurses aides and capable of providing firs
aid for minor ailments. Some of the health aides had been trainec
originally by the Japanese but the majority had received their instruc
tion from United States naval medical personnel at the civil admin
istration dispensaries. No in-patient care was available at any of the
subdispensaries except at Kwajalein (later, Ebeve) where eight bed:
were available, and at Kusaie where Dr. Albert Hicking, a Gilbertese
graduate of the Central Medical School, Suva, Fiji, maintained ar
eight bed dispensary and provided professional care.
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