REPORT ON VACCINATION IN BURMA FOR THE YEAR 1891-92.
7
Division.
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SOUTHERN
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EASTERN
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No.
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District.
3
Myingyan ..
Pakôkku ..
Ganga (subdivision)
Minbu
Magwe
Kyauksè ..
Meiktila ..
Yamèthin
Pyinmana
Northern Shan States
Southern Shan States
Names of Medical Officers.
4
Surgeon-Captain J. H. Sellick
Mr. R. T. Darwin ..
Mr. T. C. Lawrence ..
Mr. J. E. Campbell ..
Mr. J. T. Weston ..
Mr. C. W. F. Foster ..
Mr. J. A. Maddox ..
Mr. D. T. Baker ..
Mr. D. Philip
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Mr. J. A. Maddox ..
Mr. G, H. Campbell ..
Mr. J. Dolby .. ..
Surgeon-Captain A. R. P.
Russell.
Surgeon-Captain R. H. Castor
Mr. G. R. Gaudoin ..
Mr. V. L. Watts ..
Mr. F. Bradley ..
Local Assistant Surgeon R, L.
Po Key.
NUMBER OP SUC-
CESSFUL CASES
VERIFIED BY
Civil Surgeons.
5
959
114
591
199
345
28
140
301
23
25
1,385
115
196
389
973
341
328
743
Hospital Assist-
ants.
6
519
515
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542
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36
171
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69
25
17
Total number of cases de-
clared to be successful.
7
4,455
1,676
926
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900
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1,537
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1,385
448
1,206
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2,582
353
995
Percentage of successful
cases verified.
8
33.18
37.53
85.31
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57.00
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57.97
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100.00
33.71
62.69
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53.56
100.00
76.38
Bovine vaccination.
46. During the year experiments with preparations of vaccine paste have
been continued at Rangoon, Mandalay, Moulmein, and Thayetmyo.
47. The Health Officer, Rangoon, reports that since June 1890 he has
used a preparation of bovine vaccine paste, prepared by mixing lymph and
scraping from the floor of the vesicles with glycerine. He states that in his
hands this preparation has given more reliable results than lymph obtained
from bovine or human vaccinifers, but that specimens sent to other Surgeons
have yielded only " varied success."
48. The Civil Surgeon, Moulmein, remarks that calf lymph has been used
throughout the year, and that every care was taken to keep up the supply by
means of bovine scabs and inoculating calves with human lymph. Surgeon-
Major King's method of preserving bovine lymph in lanoline was tried on
several occasions, but he states that it did not show any superiority over bovine
scabs. In a supplementary report he remarks that " After repeated experiments
" with lanoline lymph, the reason why the paste was not extensively experi-
" mented with on children was due to the uncertainty of its possessing the vaccine
" virtue and for fear of failure, which would act as a deterrent to vaccination,
" especially in a place where vaccination is carried on under compulsory and not
" on voluntary applications."
49. At Thayetmyo the Civil Surgeon experienced great difficulty in pro-
curing calves for the operation. He states that the milkmen and butchers would
not allow their calves to be vaccinated for fear of losing them, and that it was
only from the jail dairy farm and local contractors that calves could be ob-
tained.
He remarks that out of 12 experiments four did not take at all, and of the
" eight successful cases the quality of the lymph was not successful and the
quantity small."
50. At Akyab calf lymph was used till February, when on account of a
severe outbreak of cholera all vaccination had to be discontinued. With regard
to the preservation of calf lymph the Civil Surgeon remarks: " The method of
" triturating with glycerine was tried, and also Dr. King's method of rubbing the
" lymph with lanoline, but with only comparative success."