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RESOLUTION ON THE TRIENNIAL REPORT ON VACCINATION IN BURMA FOR THE YEARS 1905-06—1907-08.
provided and as the confidence of the people is gained, the measure, if it becomes
law, will be applied to other districts and in time there is no reason to doubt that
the practice of inoculation will be as dead in Burma as it is in Europe. It is not
intended to make vaccination compulsory in rural areas.
3. In order to provide for better supervision the service of Native Superin-
tendents has been reorganized and enlarged from 16 to 44. The Lieutenant-
Governor observes with pleasure that in the year 1907-08 the Native Superin-
tendents inspected 40 per cent. of the total number of primary vaccinations and
nearly 45 per cent. of the total number of re-vaccinations. These figures represent
a very large advance over those of any previous year and the Lieutenant-Governor
trusts that this standard of work will be maintained. The increase in the number
of inspections performed by Native Superintendents is, however, counterbalanced
by a continuous falling off in the number of inspections performed by the Deputy
Sanitary Commissioner and Civil Surgeons. Each year of the triennium shows a
decrease, and in the year 1907-08, Civil Surgeons and the Deputy Sanitary Com-
missioner inspected only 13 per cent. of the total number of primary vaccinations.
The annual average for the triennium was 16 per cent. as compared with 20 per
cent. in the previous triennium. The increase in the strength of the Native Super-
intendents was not intended to relieve Civil Surgeons of their duty of inspecting
the work of vaccinators but to assist them in that duty. The Lieutenant-
Governor hopes that Civil Surgeons will give more attention to this work than
they have recently done.
4. The percentage of cases inspected by the Deputy Sanitary Commissioner
and Civil Surgeons in which the operation was found to be successful shows a
distinct improvement, the average number of primary vaccinations found successful
by Civil Surgeons being 90 per cent. in the last as compared with 85 in the previous
triennium.
5. The Lieutenant-Governor has read with much pleasure the praise bestowed
in this report and in the notes for the years 1905-06 and 1906-07 on Major
Entrican's work at the Vaccination Depôt. Great improvement in the quality of
lymph supplied from Meiktila his resulted from the care and skill with which
Major Entrican has carried out his duties. The Lieutenant-Governor's thanks are
due to him for his success in this work as well as for the training of Native
Superintendents and Vaccinators.
6. In Rangoon the serious outbreak of small-pox which occurred in the year
1905-06 resulted in a great increase of work. 114,000 vaccinations were per-
formed in the triennium ending 31st March 1908 as compared with 44,000 in the
previous three years. Since this epidemic the Municipal Committee have given
their attention to the improvement of vaccination work, the staff has been reorgan-
ized, new vaccination stations have been built at convenient places in the town,
and the supply of lymph has been much improved. A Bill will shortly be intro-
duced into the Legislative Council to afford additional facilities for the vaccination
of immigrant coolies. It is believed that this class of the population, of which a large
proportion is unprotected, constitutes a serious menace to the health of the town.
The Lieutenant-Governor believes that with the additional power furnished in this