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Travelling dispensaries visit periodically for the 
■purpose of supplying medical treatment. 
Maternity and Infant Welfare. 
For years there has been a Maternity and Infant 
Welfare Centre conducted by the Health Department 
of the Singapore Municipality. 
In the Federated Malay States there is an Infant 
Welfare Advisory Board whose duties are to advise 
Government. Under this Board an Infant /Welfare 
Centre has been established in Kuala Lumpur. Later 
it is proposed to form centres’ in each of the towns 
of Ipoh, Seremban and Taiping, 
Vital Statistics, F.M.S. 
Population. 
The estimated populations of the Federated Malay 
States and cf the four States at the end of June, 1923,. 
and the census figures for the four large towns are 
given below. 
Federated Malay States. 
Europeans and Americans 
6,226 
Eurasians . . . . 
3,329 
Malays and other races of the 
archipelago 
531,367 
Chinese 
508,342 
Indians 
335j089 
Others 
5,614 
Total .. 1,389,667 
