Notes and statistics on hospitals and dispensaries in Burma.

  • Burma.
Date:
[1917]
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    NOTES AND STATISTICS ON HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES IN BURMA FOR THE YEAR 1917. I held charge of the Office of the Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Burma, throughout the year 1917. In spite of depletion of staff and other special conditions consequent on the great war, the record of work done has been on the whole satisfactory. 2. At the beginning of the year 1917, there were 282 Hospitals and Dispen¬ saries in’tile Province. The statistics of the Contagious Diseases Hospital at Mandalay have been included in the returns for the first time this year. Two dispensaries (Special Dispensary for Women at Maymyo, and Public Works Department Dispensary at Machega in Putao District) were opened during the year. Eleven dispensaries had to be closed during the year, ten on account of withdrawal of Sub-Assistant Surgeons for military duty, the eleventh (Twante Canal Dispensary, Insein District) being closed on the 10th March 1917, owing to the scene of operations having been shifted very close to Rangoon. 3. The ten dispensaries closed consequent on war conditions were :— (1) Tilin (Pakokku District) ; (2) Nammawngun (Southern Shan States) ; ‘(3) Budalin (Lower Chindwin District); (4) Massein (Upper Chindwin District); (5, 6 and 7) Travelling Dispensaries, PakSkku, Seyat (Chin Hills) and Paletwa (Arakan Hill Tracts); (8) Bbkpyin (Mergui District); (9) Branch Dispensary, Pyinmana (Yam&thin District) and (10) Railway Dispensary, Mahlaing (Meiktila District). At the close of the year under report, only 274 hospitals and dispen¬ saries were working in Burma. 4. The number of in-door and out-door patients treated at State-public, Local Fund and Private-aided Institutions amounted to 1,867,529 against 1,858,485 in 1916. In-door Patients.—The number of in-door patients treated was 69,405 in the year under report against 68,238 in 1916. Of these, 51,240 (73*8 per cent.) were “ Cured” ; 6,808 (9^8 per cent.) were “ Relieved ” ; 4,431 (6‘4 per cent.) were “ Discharged Otherwise”, and 4,008 “ Died.” The death-rate was 5*77 per cent, of the total treated as against 6*29 percent, in 1916. The total accom¬ modation available was 3,770 beds for males and 1,177 for females, or an increase of 100 beds over that of the previous year. Out-door Patients.— In the year under report, one million seven hundred and ninety-eight thousand one hundred and twenty-six persons were attended to as out-patients against 1,790,247 in 1916, the daily average attendance being 9,639 against 9,411 in the year previous. The average daily attendance was more than one hundred at (1) General Hospital, Rangoon, 484, (2) Gyobingauk, 148, (3) Kemmendine Male Dispensary, 147, (4) Sagaing, 144, (5) Maymyo, 134, (6) Mandalay 132,(7) Bhamo, 129,(8) Toungoo, 115, (9) Bassein and (10) Zig6n, 105 each and (11) Myitkyina, 101. The percentage of patients represented by friends was \6'$8 in 1917 against I5‘68 in 1916. 5. Arranged according to the greatest order of prevalence, the principal diseases treated were :— “ All other diseases of the Digestive system ” 421,353, “ Malaria ” 225,097, “Ulcers” 154,493, “ All diseases of the respiratory system except Pneumonia and Tubercle of the Lungs ” 146,235, “Diseases of the skin other than Ulcers 144,949, “Injuries” 136,101, “Diseases of the Eye ” 129,972, “Dyspepsia” 86,317, “ Diseases of the Ear” 48,582, “ Rheumatic fever and Rheumatism ” 38,293, and “ Diseases of the Nervous system ” 30,549. Of'the epidemic diseases, the number of cases of cholera, plague and small¬ pox treated at the hospitals were 347, 1,013 and 435 against 253, 1,108 and and 1,228 cases respectively in 1916. ✓ ' Statement A. Statement B. Statement C (i) and