NOTES AND STATISTICS
ON
VACCINATION IN BURMA
FOR THE YEAR 1909-10.
Statement II.
1. Establishment.—The number of vaccinators employed was 266, against
259 in the previous year. The number of Native Superintendents of Vaccination
remained as in the previous year at 48.
The 7 additional vaccinators were employed in the following districts :—
Rangoon Town District (Municipal) 1, Hanthawaddy District 3, Pegu
District 2, Pakôkku District 1.
A Native Superintendent has been sanctioned for Katha District, and will be
trained during the current year.
Statements I.
& III.
2. Work performed during the year.—There was an increase in the total of
operations performed in towns and rural areas (excluding Dispensary Vaccination)
of 10,144. There was a decrease of operations performed at Dispensaries
amounting to 1,826. The total increase in the number of operations for the
province was therefore 8,318 as compared with the returns of 1908-09.
Statement I.
3. District Vaccination.—Twenty-five districts show an increase on the work
of the previous year, and fifteen show a decrease.
Arakan Division.—In three out of the four districts of this division there
was a falling off in the number of operations performed. In Akyab District
the decrease was 2,699, in Kyaukpyu District 4,135. There was a creditable
increase of 1,500 operations in Sandoway District. The decrease in the other
districts is attributed by the Civil Surgeons to apathy on the part of the people
and to the lack of the stimulus created in previous years by epidemics of small-pox.
Pegu Division.—There was a slight decrease amounting to 59 operations
in Rangoon Municipality, and a decrease of 1,274 operations in Prome District,
which was probably due to the prevalence of epidemic plague and cholera.
Hanthawaddy and Tharrawaddy Districts show a distinct improvement in the
work done, with 1,200 and 1,813 operations respectively in excess of the previous
year. Pegu shows a small increase of 477 only.
Irrawaddy Division.—All districts show an increase in the work done.
The increase in Ma-ubin District is trifling, being only 33, while in Henzada it is
938, and in Myaungmya 761. The Civil Surgeons of these two districts deserve
credit for improving the position of Vaccination among communities who have in
recent years shown themselves to be very backward in receiving the operation.
Tenasserim Division.—Four districts, Amherst, Mergui, Toungoo and
Thatôn show increased work, the increase in Thatôn being 3,087. There was a
falling off in Tavoy District of 4,066 operations, and in Salween District of 128.
The decrease in Tavoy is attributed by the Civil Surgeon to excessive zeal on the
part of the vaccinators in previous years. This does not however satisfactorily
explain the decrease of 978 in primary operations, since the birth-rate is main-
tained at a high level, and infant mortality is exceptionally low.
Mandalay Division.— Four districts, Mandalay, Bhamo, Katha and Ruby
Mines show an increase. In Myitkyina District there was a falling off of 109
operations. The increases in Mandalay (3,292), and in Katha (3,751), show that
the greater interest displayed by the Superintendents of Vaccination in these
districts is bearing fruit.
Sagaing Division.—All four districts of this division show a decrease in
the work done. In Sagaing District the deficit amounts to 2,014, and was confined
to re-vaccinations ; in Lower Chindwin District it was 2,478. The explanation