NOTES ON THE STATISTICS
OF
VACCINATION IN BURMA
For the year 1894-95.
LOWER BURMA.
1. Statement I.—The total number of persons vaccinated was 206,092, or
30,284 in excess of those of the previous year. Of these operations 153,631
were primary and 52,461 re-vaccinations as compared with 135,228 and 40,580
respectively for the preceding year.
2. All districts show an improvement, except the following, in which there
has been a decrease :—
Kyaukpyu ... ... ... ...
Henzada ... ... ... ...
Salween Hill Tracts ... ... ...
Bassein ... ... ... ...
Amherst ... ... ... ...
Sandoway ... ... ... ...
Decrease.
2,147
1,632
224
138
73
34
The falling off at Kyaukpyu was due partly to the inability to secure a
temporary man while the town vaccinator was under trial for theft, and partly to
imperfect supervision, the result of several changes of Civil Surgeons. The
decrease at Henzada was owing to the resignation of the town vaccinator at
Myanaung and the neglect of the medical subordinate to report his inability to
obtain a substitute locally. Suitable notice has been taken of this omission.
3. The reduction in the Salween district is explained by the fact that an
additional vaccinator was employed during the previous year for four months,
owing to an outbreak of small-pox. The slight reduction in the remaining three
districts is attributed to fewer subjects being available at headquarters.
4. Of districts which show an increase the following are the most con-
spicuous :—
Hanthawaddy (including Rangoon) ... ...
Akyab ... ... ... ... ...
Myaungmya ... ... ... ... ...
Prome
...
...
...
...
...
Tavoy ... ... ... ... ...
Tharrawaddy ... ... ... ... ...
Pegu ... ... ... ... ...
Increase.
19,091
2,962
2,763
2,649
1,856
1,490
1,283
In the remaining districts the increase ranged from 917 in Thayetmyo and
604 in Shwegyin to 201 in Mergui and 24 in the Arakan Hill Tracts.
5. The state of vaccination in the Akyab district, in spite of the fact that,
as compared with 1893-94, the number of operations has been more than doubled,
is not yet satisfactory. An advance has, however, been made and still further
improvement is confidently expected.
6. The number of operations on infants and on children under six years
of age is respectively 3,046 and 13,265 in excess of those of the previous year.
7. The percentages of success in primary and secondary operations are
90.92 and 47.95 as compared with 90.27 and 47.57 in 1893-94. An increase is
also visible in the average number of operations performed by each vaccinator,
which is 2,677 against 2,254 in the preceding year. The average number of cases
operated on by each vaccinator was highest in the Sandoway district (9,998).
In other districts it ranged from 7,582 in Hanthawaddy, 2,771 in Tavoy, 2,666 in
Amherst, and 2,577 in Henzada to 1,386 in the Arakan Hill Tracts, 1,284 in
Myaungmya, 1,067 in Shwegyin and 1,050 in Akyab.
8. The number of successful operations performed in each district during
the year exceeded the mean of the previous five years in all except Akyab (1,631
less) Toungoo (813 less), and Kyaukpyu (475 less).
9. The ratio of subjects protected per 1,000 of population during the year
under review ranged in districts from 116.70 in Sandoway, 91.56 in Hanthawaddy,