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Moulmein.-Surgeon-Major W. F. deFabeck from the' 1st January to the 31st
May, when the institution was closed.
III.-The extent of venereal disease among European troops as shown by the weekly returns.
The extent of venereal disease in the European garrisons of the province in
1884 is shown in the subjoined table, in which are also contrasted the ratios for
it and the preceding five years :-
Stations.
Average
strength.
Number
of admix-
sions of
all forms.
Ratio per mile.
1884.
1879.
1880.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
Rangoon
...
548.4
106
18451
216. 69
164. 17
225 .03 192. 36 193.29
Thayetmyo
...
...
635
62
79.05
82-50
92 .20 131 .42 68. 29 97.64
Toungoo
. . .
445
120
93.61
81 .37 176 .55 222 .44 268 .44 269.66
Total
... 1,628 .4
288
86.10
86 .48 101 .66 132 .75 168 .51 176.86
Though the sum of admissions for 1884 (288) is 29 less . than the aggregate
ror 1883 (317), the rate for the former is considerably the higher, and is the
highest attained in any of the years of which the foregoing statement takes cogniz-
ance. The figures in the table for the year under review do not include relapses
Dr imported cases. There were 24 (14 primary syphilis, seven secondary, and
three gonorrhoea) of the former at Toungoo and five of the latter, four (disease not
specified) at Rangoon, and one (gonorrhœa) at Thayetmyo. Had these 29 cases
been included, as they have been in the figures for former years, the result would
have rendered the comparison still less favourable for 1884.
In the following statement the admissions for the last two years, excluding
importations and relapses (except for Toungoo in 1883, regarding which infor-
mation was not given), are classified :-
Rangoon.
Thayetmyo.
Toungoo.
1883.
1884.
1883.
1884.
1883.
1884.
Primary syphilis
...
. . . ...
85
51
21
18
85
65
Secondary
...
...
...
. . .
2
2
7
6
3
18
Gonorrhœa
...
...
...
.0.
53
53
9
38
43
37
The noteworthy features in the table are the decrease in the admissions from
primary syphilis at Rangoon, the marked increase of gonorrhea at Thayetmyo,
and the great rise in the admissions from secondary syphilis at Toungoo. With
the relapses added, which for fair comparison they . should be, and with a smal-
ler average strength, the increased admissions at this station become at first sight
somewhat startling.
The Medical Officer in his re p ort says :
" This increase is a very marked one, and though the statistics have little or no bear-
ing on the comparative prevalence of syphilis, they are important as showing an apparently
graver type of the disease. The cases under this heading are, however, reported to have
been usually of a mild character."
S u r g e o n
E .
E r e n c h n a a n
w o u l d a t t r i b u t e t h e i n c r e a s e o f g o n o r r h o e a a t
Thayetmyo to clandestine prostitution and to more frequent venereal inter-
course : " The large draft, " he says, " that joined the Bedfordshire regiment at
the end of 1883 consisted of young soldiers."
IN.-Whether a cantonment sub-committee for exercising special supervision over the rules has existed
throughout the year and what officers comprised it.
In Akyab, Bassein, Thayetmyo, and Toungoo the lock-hospitals were under
the control of their respective municipalities. The control of the Rangoon and
Moulmein institutions, which had reverted from the Municipalities to the Govern-
ment in 1883, continued under Government, the former throughout the year, and