TRIENNIAL REPORT ON VACCINATION IN BURMA FOR THE YEARS 1896-97—1898-99.
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The above statement shows that the aggregate number of operations under all
ages has progressively increased from year to year, except in 1897-98, when there
was a slight decrease under the head Six years of age and over.
13. The degree of protection afforded to the infant population in the muni-
cipal towns during the period under review is set forth in the table below.
Town.
1
Akyab ... ...
Kyaukpyu ... ...
Ramree ... ...
Sandoway ... ...
Rangoon ... ...
Pegu ... ...
Prome ... ...
Paungde ... ...
Gyobingauk... ...
Letpadan ... ...
Thônzè* ... ...
Ma-ubin ... ...
Yandoon ... ...
Bassein ... ...
Ngathainggyaung ...
Myaungmya ... ...
Henzada ... ...
Zalun ... ...
Myanaung ...
Kyangin ... ...
Moulmein ... ...
Thatôn ... ...
Kyaikto ... ...
Tavoy ... ...
Mergui ... ...
Toungoo ... ...
Shwegyin ... ...
Mandalay ... ...
Sagaing† ... ...
Mônywa† ... ...
Thayetmyo ... ...
Yamèthin ... ...
Pyinmana ... ...
Myingyan ... ...
Pagan† ... ...
Number of births during the
three years.
2
1,867
180
189
249
9,593
1,065
2,515
954
390
594
298
415
1,103
3,177
630
351
2,137
362
581
719
3,872
1,170
568
1,651
1,043
1,718
836
20,105
257
160
1,543
953
1,710
2,280
87
Number of deatns amongst
children under one year
during the three years.
3
708
47
47
44
4,083
270
609
152
115
130
37
99
213
690
120
89
471
92
103
84
791
250
125
210
352
357
113
6,076
29
44
380
137
344
556
25
Number living after deduct-
ing deaths in column 3.
4
1,159
133
142
205
5,510
795
1,906
802
275
464
261
316
890
2,487
510
262
1,666
270
478
635
3,081
920
443
1,441
691
1,361
723
44,029
228
116
1,163
816
1,366
1,724
62
Number of successful vacci-
nations on children under
one year during the three
years ending 31st March
1899.
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1,379
193
405
275
4,449
1,366
3,316
1,522
632
1,008
208
4,514
1,670
3,646
386
296
2,787
720
2,261
Percentage of successful vac-
cinations to total number
of survivals.
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118.98
145.11
285.21
134.15
80.74
171.82
173.98
189.78
229.82
217.24
79. 69
1,428.48
187.64
146.60
75.69
112.98
167.29
266.67
473.01
No data.
5,005
2,222
1,464
1,533
1,723
2,530
1,612
19,482
370
326
1,711
1,330
2,957
2,577
166
162.45
241.52
330.47
106.38
249.36
185.89
222.96
138.87
162.28
281.03
147.12
162.99
216.47
149.48
267.74
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.
February 1897.
January 1897.
October 1897.
October 1891.
January 1892.
September 1888.
February 1890.
June 1894.
January 1889.
August 1894.
July 1889.
August 1894.
August 1885.
October 1891.
March 1897.
December 1889.
October 1891.
May 1889.
January 1890.
August 1891.
April 1894.
March 1893.
May 1889.
February 1892.
November 1891.
September 1891.
November 1891.
* Two years figures given as those for 1896-97 are not available,
† Only one year's (1898-99) figures are available and they are given.
It will be seen that in only three towns, Ngathainggyaung, Thônzè, and Ran-
goon, the number successfully vaccinated fell short of the survivals among child-
ren under one year of age, while in the remaining 31 towns for which complete
data are to hand the successful operations far outnumbered the available subjects
-among the infant population. The excess ranged from 1,428.48 per cent. in Ma-
ubin, 473.01 in Myanaung, and 330.47 in Kyaikto to 118.98 in Akyab, 112.98 in
Myaungmya, and 106.38 in Tavoy. This extraordinary and almost universal excess
of successfully vaccinated over survivals in municipal towns in this province is
due, in the first place, to large numbers of children from adjoining villages being
annually brought into towns for vaccination ; secondly, to the fact that in places
where the intrinsic amount of work to be done is small the municipal vacci-
nators extend their operations to the neighbouring villages. This was specially the
case in Ma-ubin where the vaccinator operated in all villages within a radius of
10 miles from the town. Thirdly, the excess was probably due, to some extent at