TRIENNIAL REPORT
ON
VACCINATION IN BURMA
FOR THE YEARS 1905-1906 TO 1907-1908.
Statement I.
Year.
1904-05
...
...
...
1905-06 ... ... ...
1906-07 ... ... ...
1907-08 ... ... ...
Average
...
District
Superintendents.
40
41
11
41
41
Native
Superintendents.
16
16
32
44
81
Vaccinators.
233
241
244
253
246
The marginal statement gives the strength of the Vaccination establishment
during each of
the three years
under review. It
will be seen that
the average of
the three years
was 41 District
Superintendents,
31 Native Super-
intendents
and
246 vaccinators. This amounts to an increase on the average of the preceding
triennium of two District Superintendents, 16 Native Superintendents and 23
vaccinators. The Native Superintendents were increased in 1906-07 from 16 to
32 and in 1907-08 to 44. The ten vaccinators sanctioned in 1907-08 were
distributed to the following districts:—Northern Arakan Tracts 1, Amherst 1,
Bhamo 1, Ruby Mines 1, Myitkyina 1, Southern Shan States 4, and Chin Hills 1.
The staff of Thatôn District was reduced by one vaccinator, entertained temporarily
for a period of six months from 1st January 1907.
The reorganisation scheme of Native Superintendents of Vaccination, described
in the last Triennial Report, received the sanction of the Government of India and
came into force from 1st May 1906. The fixed travelling allowance was, however,
disallowed, and nominees received pay from the commencement of training. In
1906-07, 24 Native Superintendents were trained and posted to the districts named
in that Report. In 1907 sanction was obtained for one more Native Superinten-
dent, and a further seven have been under training at Meiktila since 1st March 1908.
Statement I.
2. Work performed during the triennium.—The total number of operations
performed was 1,269,953 which is an increase of 103,368 over the total of the
previous triennium, but of only 15,629 over that of the triennium ending in 1901-02.
The returns have, however, been more reliable in each succeeding period. The
increase was not general throughout the province, 17 out of 40 districts showing
a decrease. Five districts show a very considerable increase, namely, Rangoon
Municipality 70,722, Amherst District 26,483, Sagaing District 28,298, Akyab
District 24,598, Thatôn 17,154; on the other hand four districts show a marked
falling off, namely, Henzada 29,356, Tavoy 20,262, Shwebo 15,709, Prome 15,579.
Only six districts show a continuous increase year by year, namely, Kyaukpyu,
Sandoway, Tavoy, North Arakan Hill Tracts, Ruby Mines, and Upper Chindwin.
A continuous annual decrease is shown by Rangoon, Hanthawaddy, Pegu,
Tharrawaddy, Prome, Ma-ubin, Bassein, Henzada, Pyapôn, Bhamo, Minbu,
Meiktila, Northern and Southern Shan States and Chin Hills.
It is evident that if the increased work performed in Rangoon be omitted
from the calculation, the increase for the remaining districts is only 32,646. The
high average attained in Rangoon, namely, 38,135 per annum for the triennium,
was partly the result of special efforts made to cope with a severe outbreak of
small-pox in 1905-06 and the following year, and partly of a general improvement
in organisation and working of the vaccination staff.