NOTES AND STATISTICS
ON
VACCINATION IN BURMA
For the year 1912-13.
1. Establishment.—This was increased by 4 Vaccinators posted to Ma-ubin
and Thatôn Districts, its strength being 272 Vaccinators and 49 Native Superin-
tendents.
The number of Native Superintendents trained at the Meiktila school was
4, and of apprentice vaccinators 32, of whom 31 qualified.
2. Dismissals and Removals.—There were 13 dismissals and removals from
the Establishment of Vaccinators, for neglect of duty, disobedience of orders, or
falsification of their returns. Native Superintendents of Katha, Pegu and Meik-
tila Districts were dismissed for falsifying accounts, abetting inoculations, and
other misdemeanours.
Statement I.
3. Operations performed in 1912-13—By District and Town Vaccinators.—
In towns and rural areas, excluding jails and dispensaries, 533,647 operations
were performed, of which 416,121 were primary operations and 117,526 re-vacci-
nation. As compared with the returns for 1911-12 the total of primary operations
was 614 less, and that of operations for re-vaccination 26,786 more, the total of
all operations being 26,172 in excess of the previous year's return. In 44 Muni-
cipal Towns there were 26,431 successful primary operations and 16,871 successful
operations for re-vaccination, these figures showing a decrease of nearly 3,000 prim-
ary operations and an increase of over 8,000 for re-vaccination in Municipalities.
The great increase, on the other hand, in the total number of operations for
re-vaccination which was recorded for the year under review, and which amounts
to 29.52 per cent. of all operations for re-vaccination performed in the previous year,
is mainly, if not entirely, to be attributed to the prevalence of Small-pox in
epidemic form in many districts, which provided a stimulus both to District
Officers to push vaccination of contacts and of persons specially exposed to in-
fection, and to such individuals to seek protection by subjecting themselves to
the operation. It is obvious from the returns that the close attention devoted to
re-vaccination and to the suppression of outbreaks of Small-pox is responsible for
much of the falling off in primary vaccination.
Statement I.
4. Re-vaccination.—The large increase of 26,786 operations was contributed
to mainly by the Mandalay Division with an increase of 12,423 operations, Sagaing
Division with an increase of 15,910 and Magwe Division, increase 9,924. Meiktila
Division returned an increment of 2,258. There was a small increase in all the
districts of the Arakan Division. Pegu Division alone shows a heavy deficit in
this class of operation amounting to 13,755, of which Rangoon contributed 11,036.
and Prome District 4,501. Amherst District shows a deficit of 1,411. The
individual districts which returned the largest increments under the head of
re-vaccination were Sagaing (11,965), Mandalay (11,284), Shwebo (4,155), Minbu
(3,980), Magwe (3,695), Pegu (1,376), Thayetmyo (2,198), Myingyan (1,064).
Statement I.
5. Successful Results.—In primary operations 1912-13 returns show a
deficit of 312 successful cases as compared with those of the previous year. In
re-vaccination there was an increase of 20,068 successful cases. The percentage
success of known cases was for the whole Province in primary vaccination 96.71,
and in re-vaccination 68.12 against 96.61 and 72.77 respectively in 1911-12. The
percentage of unknown cases was 3.63 in primary, and 9.94 in re-vaccination.
The total of successful operations of both classes was 459,929 against a
previous five years' average of 353,723, the ratios per mille of population
vaccinated in 1912-13 being 37.96, and the previous five years' average 31.81,
a definite advance of 6. 15 per mille.
Statement
II.
6. Cost of the Department.—The total cost of the Vaccination Department
for the year 1912-13 was Rs. 2,05,198-12-2 an increase of Rs. 4,595-2-10 on
the previous year's expenditure. The excess under Local Funds (Lower Burma
District Cess Funds) was Rs. 2,762-6-1 and under Municipalities Rs. 2,731-7-9,
while there was a decrease of Rs. 693-13-10 in expenditure from Provincial Funds
and of Rs. 204-13-2 in that of Native States.