Disease and health care services
The Institute for Medical Research in Kuala Lumpur was opened in 1901.
The role of public health services was crucial to colonial expansion in Malaya. Medical research and public works were geared to fight the diseases which threatened economic development. The pattern of health services which evolved supported the colonial enterprises in the urban areas, while the estates were required to set up their own hospitals. Colonial medical ideology sought to establish the superiority of Western medicine, and blamed the sick for their own ill health.
- Information in the full article includes
- Infectious and deficiency diseases
- Research and public health
- Setting up hospitals
- Maternal and child health
- Traditional remedies