Annual report of the Health Officer for the City of Rangoon.

  • Rangoon (Burma). Health Office.
Date:
[1930]
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Credit: Annual report of the Health Officer for the City of Rangoon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    reported to be Plague infected. The corresponding figures for 1929 were 6,79,699 destroyed, 38,060 examined and 133 found infected. The four temporary gangs of coolies employed for ratting and site- cleaning were made permanent during the year thus making the total strength of 22 gangs. The following Table gives the number of inoculations performed, houses and house-sites cleaned, houses disinfected, rats destroyed and number of Plague deaths for the past ten years :— Year. Inoculations. Houses and house- sites cleaned. Houses disinfected. Rats destroyed. Plague deaths. --— 1920 • • • 5,036 8,045 1,354 3,45,750 1,127 1921 11 < 4,495 5,532 1,594 4,05,178 1,126 1922 • ♦ €> 5,561 7,233 | 2,112 4,08,785 1,402 1923 • •• 5,572 14,797 2,158 4,96,987 1,159 1924 • • • 2,018 36,237 1,285 6,30,907 505 1925 • •• 1,017 32,802 2,935 6,04,250 620 1926 • •• 605 28,747 1,738 6,69,184 257 1927 ••• 162 40,010 1,733 8,64,962 168 1928 IM 338 32,527 5,140 | 8,61,827 257 1929 292 11,973 1,096 6,79,699 94 1930 • • • 262 9,266 847 5,67,490 38 Prom the above statement it will be seeh that the total number of rats caught and the number of house-sites cleaned during the past year was much less than those of the previous year. This was mainly due to the disbandment and abolition of four of the eight temporary ratting gangs in the year 1929 when I was on leave. Since the year 1924, eight extra ratting gangs were sanctioned by the Corporation on my recommendation with a view to carry on an intensive campaign against rats* the main cause of the spread of Plague in human beings, with the extremely happy result shown in the statement above, viz. that the incidence of Plague has been brought down to a vanishing point. Enteric Fever. 105 cases with 74 deaths were reported during the year under review as compared with 142 cases with 72 deaths in the previous year.