TRIENNIAL REPORT ON VACCINATION IN BURMA FOR THE YEARS 1905-06 TO 1907-08.
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and Civil Surgeons in 1907-08 against 87.31 and 58.53, the highest figures for
verification in the earlier period. A similar improvement is shown in the result
verified by Native Superintendents. It is to be noticed that the Vaccinators
returned a higher percentage of successes in primary operations than was verified
by either class of inspecting officers, while their return of successful re-vaccinations
was somewhat lower than that obtained on verification of their work.
In 1907-08 the Civil Surgeons of the Chin Hills (1.04), Akyab (6.65), Pegu
(8.71), Tharrawaddy (2.56), Bassein (7.36), Henzada (3.46), Toungoo (1.61),
and Thatôn(4.42), verified but a very small percentage of the operations performed.
In many cases the work at Headquarters leaves Civil Surgeons little leisure
for district touring, but this cannot be said to apply to some of the stations
named. The small amount of inspection duty performed at Tharrawaddy and
Thatôn demands explanation. Hanthawaddy, Ma-ubin, Tavoy, Katha, Meiktila
and Myingyan return a high percentage of verifications by District Superintend-
ents.
In Ma-ubin, Pyapôn, Amherst, Tavoy, Myingyan and Rangoon, percentages
of the total primary operations varying from 63.99 to 94.77 were verified by Native
Superintendents.
Native Superintendents verified 40.05 per cent. of primary operations and
44.85 per cent. of re-vaccinations in 1907-08, but only 15.22 and 19.42 per cent.
of each class of operations in 1906-07. The work done in 1907-08 was, however,
a great increase on that of any year in the previous decade.
Statement
II.
Year.
1905-06 ... ...
1906-07 ... ...
1907-08 ... ...
Establish-
ment.
Rs. ... ...
77,676
86,261
92,052
Travelling
allowance.
Rs.
24,866
27,721
34,919
Contin-
gencies.
Rs.
11,922
18,546
11,633
Total.
Rs.
1,14,464
1,27,528
1,38,604
Average cost per
case.
Rs.
0
0
0
A.
4
6
6
P.
9
1
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13. Cost during the triennium under review.— The total expenditure on
account of vacci-
nation during the
triennium
was
Rs. 3,80,597, as
compared with Rs.
2,80,309 for the
previous triennium.
The
increased
expenditure was mainly due to the entertainment of Native Superintendents
of Vaccination and apprentice vaccinators under the reorganization scheme
alluded to in the last triennial report, to an increase of the number of vaccinators
during the period under review, and to the adoption in additional districts of the
increased rate of pay sanctioned for district vaccinators in 1905-06. The total
expenditure during the year 1907-08 as shown in the attached statement was
Rs. 1,38,604 as compared with Rs. 1,27,528 expended during the previous year.
This increase in expenditure is largely a sequel to the entertainment of 16 addi-
tional Native Superintendents of Vaccination during the period under review.
The increase began with the financial year 1906-07, but did not affect the first
two months of that year. During the financial year just concluded the increase
affected all months of the year, and was enhanced by the fact that these additional
Native Superintendents, posted during the year to their respective districts, drew
travelling allowance during the major portion of its course.
The cost of each successful vaccination has increased from 6 annas 1 pie in
1906-07 to 6 annas 11 pies in 1907-08. The increase in cost has been due to a
decrease in the number of operations shown; a decrease partly attributable to
improved accuracy in the returns ; partly to the performance of less actual work.
This latter feature has to some extent been the result directly or indirectly of the
presence of plague in the province. There is no doubt, however, that in Hantha-
waddy, Ma-ubin and Pyapôn Districts where the rate is exceptionally heavy, the
increase was due to the small number of operations performed by comparatively large
district establishments. The increase in cost during 1907-08 is partly balanced by
the increase which has taken place in the vaccination establishment during that year.
During the first year of the triennium the average cost per successful case
varied from 15 annas 11 pies in Northern Arakan Hill Tracts to 2 annas and 1 pie
in Sagaing. During the second year the rates varied from Rs. 1-6-5 in Meiktila
to 2 annas 5 pies in Sagaing. During the third year the average cost varied from
Rs. 2-6-2 in the Northern Shan States to 2 annas and 8 pies in Sagaing.