NOTES ON THE STATISTICS OF VACCINATION IN BURMA FOR THE YEAR 1899-1900.
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(a) Vaccination and registered births outside towns.—The subjoined table
sets forth the degree of protection afforded during the year 1899-1900 to the
infant population in districts exclusive of municipal towns.
TABLE No. VI.
District.
1
Akyab... ... ... ...
Kyaukpyu
...
...
...
...
Sandoway ... ... ... ...
Hanthawaddy... ... ... ...
Pegu... ... ... ...
Tharrawaddy...
...
...
...
Prome... ... ... ...
Thôngwa... ... ... ...
Bassein... ... ... ...
Henzada... ... ... ...
Myaungmya... ... ... ...
Amherst... ... ... ...
Thatôn ... ... ... ...
Tavoy... ... ... ...
Mergui...
...
...
...
Toungoo... ... ... ...
Thayetmyo... ... ... ...
Number of births during the
year.
2
12,714
5,316
3,192
12,448
10,524
13,947
11,037
12,876
11,209
18,074
9,161
7,069
7,682
3,380
2,112
4,969
5,885
Number of deaths amongst
children under one year
during the year 1899.
3
1,610
1,349
516
2,501
2,294
2,632
1,864
2,516
2,048
3,815
1,572
929
1,166
331
294
905
989
Number living after deduct-
ing deaths in column 3.
4
11,104
3,967
2,676
9,947
8,230
11,315
9,173
10,360
9,161
14,259
7,589
6,140
6,516
3,049
1,818
4,064
4,896
Number of successful vac-
cinations on children under
one year during the year
1899.
5
3,509
2,259
1,289
4,951
2,279
3,889
3,103
13,549
1,800
7,021
1,570
4,086
6,394
2,639
604
3,780
2,026
Percentage of successful
vaccinations to total num-
ber of survivals.
6
31.60
56.94
48.17
49.77
27.69
34.37
33.83
130.78
19.65
49.24
20.69
66.55
98.13
86.55
33.22
93.01
41.38
Excepting Thôngwa, the number successfully vaccinated is in every case
smaller than the number of survivals. The Civil Surgeon, Thôngwa district,
assigns the excess number vaccinated to the district staff of vaccinators being in-
creased, thereby enabling all those unprotected in the previous year and all the
survivals of the year under report to be vaccinated.
Statement No. II.
6. The cost of the Vaccination department during the year under report was
Rs. 73,683-7-5 against Rs. 69,675-4-5 in the previous
year, or an increase of Rs. 4,008-3-0.
Table VII.
Year.
1897-98
1898-99
1899-1900
European supervising
officers.
...
...
...
Native superintend-
ents.
11
12
14
Vaccinators.
175
186
195
Clerks.
2
2
2
Peons.
7
7
8
Pay of establishment.
50,743
53,946
55,218
Travelling allowances.
14,627
13,738
15,382
Contingencies.
1,420
1,991
3,084
Total cost.
66,790
69,675
73,684
From the statement given in the margin it will be observed that this in-
crease is distributed
over the three major
heads of expenditure.
The staff has been in-
creased by the appoint-
ment of two more super-
vising officers and nine
vaccinators. The Ran-
goon Vaccine depôt and
Bassein are mainly re-
sponsible for the larger
expenditure under con-
tingencies. The Health
Officer of the Rangoon
Municipality explains that the excess is due to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth
disease amongst the calves used as vaccinifers, necessitating " thoroughly overhaul -
" ing the calf-shed and making such improvements as were thought desirable," and
to heavy expenditure on correspondence due to the great demand from out-stations
for glycerinated vaccine paste. At Bassein the higher expenditure is attributed
to the purchase of calves and printing charges ; Rs. 115 were spent on the former
item against Rs. 63 in the previous year, and Rs. 117-8-0 against Rs. 15 on account
of printing.