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In the Federated Malay States there are 166 estate 
hospitals, in the Straits Settlements 27. The number 
in the Unfederated States' is not known to the writer. 
The estates which have no hospitals of their own 
send their sick to hospitals on other estates or to 
Government institutions. 
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Some estate hospitals are in charge of resident 
doctors, in the majority the persons in immediate charge 
are dressers whose activities are supervised by visiting 
medical practitioners. 
All estates are visited periodically by a Health 
Officer whose duties' include the inspection of hospitals, 
lines, water supplies, latrine accommodation and 
general sanitation with a view to ensuring that the 
standards required by the Labour Code are maintained. 
The mining population is approximately 82,000. 
Because of the paucity of Health Officers mines do not 
receive routine visits. 
School Hygiene. 
Arrangements have been made for the visitation 
of schools and the examination of the schoolars. In 
the city of Singapore a special medical officer has been 
detailed for the work but elsewhere the duties are 
performed by the district Health Officers or Medical 
Officers. 
Each school has a stock of Government quinine 
which is issued free of charge to those requiring the 
drug. 
