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TRIENNIAL REPORT ON VACCINATION IN BURMA FOR THE YEARS 1893-94—1895-96.
The average number of operations by each vaccinator during 1895-96 ranged
from 992 in the Bassein district, 1,047 in the Akyab district, and 1,092 in the
new Myaungmya district to 4,791 in Sandoway, 4,709 in Toungoo, 4,184 in
Hanthawaddy, 3,517 in Tavoy, 3,255 in Henzada and 2,955 in the Mergui dis-
tricts.
8. In the annexed statement the total number of children in towns available
for vaccination during the three years of report and the number of successful
operations on such are contrasted:—
Town.
1
Akyab ... ...
Kyaukpyu ...
Ramree* ...
Sandoway ...
Rangoon ...
Pegu ... ...
Prome ... ...
Paungdè ... ...
Gyobingauk* ...
Letpadan* ...
Ma-ubin ... ...
Yandoon ...
Bassein ...
Ngathainggyaung ...
Myaungmya * ...
Henzada ... ...
Zalun ... ...
Myanaung ...
Kyangin ... ...
Moulmein ...
Thatôn
... ...
Tavoy ... ...
Mergui ... ...
Toungoo
...
...
Shwegyin ...
Kyaikto ...
Thayetmyo ...
N umber
of births
during the
three years.
2
2,102
112
107
234
9,276
1,179
1,671
1,107
90
262
278
1,191
2,873
567
218
1,626
453
559
853
3,511
1,198
1,638
742
1,275
769
579
1,361
Number of
deaths amongst
children under
one year during
three years.
3
885
19
19
43
4,294
283
345
153
11
43
35
245
653
63
65
173
99
64
63
616
208
140
94
151
80
116
338
Number
living after
deducting
deaths in
column 3.
4
1,217
93
88
191
4,982
896
1,326
954
79
219
243
946
2,220
504
153
1,453
354
495
790
2,895
990
1,498
648
1,124
689
463
1,023
Number of success-
ful vaccinations on
children under one
year during the
three years ending
April 1896.
5
1,049
587
No data
217
4,742
583
2,876
942
850
1,147
1,596
533
3,452
728
105
2,218
No data
1,627
No data
5,552
1,460
779
662
1,022
887
356
1,305
Date of extension of
Vaccination Act
to town.
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August 1883.
April 1894.
June 1894.
September 1890.
April 1884.
March 1893.
June 1890.
August 1890.
......
......
October 1891.
January 1892.
September 1888.
February 1890.
June 1894.
January 1889.
August 1894.
July 1889.
August 1894.
August 1885,
October 1891.
December 1889.
October 1891.
May 1889.
January 1890.
......
May 1889.
In Akyab, Rangoon, Pegu, Yandoon, Tavoy, Toungoo and Kyaikto the num-
ber of children living was far in excess of the successful operations and at Paungdè
and Myaungmya slightly so.
At Akyab, Rangoon, Toungoo and Paungdè the vaccinations in the previous
year, 1894-95, were in excess of the children surviving in that year, so that the
deficiency is due to fewer operations in 1895-96 owing to a certain number of
children not being liable to vaccination till the following year, but in the case of
Pegu, Yandoon, Myaungmya and Tavoy towns the operations fell short of the
births in the previous year also, and there is no reason why the number should not
approximate the number of children surviving.
The excess of operations over births in some towns is due to children outside
municipal areas being brought in for vaccination and to town vaccinators extend-
ing their work to neighbouring hamlets.
9. In the diagram annexed is shown the proportion of the population pro-
tected during the seven years ending with March 1896, and the death-rate from
small-pox for the calendar year 1895.
* Particulars of protection given in these stations are for two official years ending April 1896, the
statistics of the year 1893-94 not being available.