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

  • Rangoon (Burma). Health Office.
Date:
[1925]
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Credit: Annual report of the Health Officer for the City of Rangoon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A large number of births are discovered every year by the Lady Health Visitors and Vaccinators whilst visiting their Circles from house to house and as a check on the work of the staff engaged in the registration of births, the death return of every child dying under the age of 12 months is endorsed with the result of enquiry whether the child was born in the City and the birth registered or not. Every effort is being made to bring the registration of births into line with the standard of accuracy achieved for the registration of deaths, by circulating printed notices in all the Vernaculars and warning the Public of their liability to prosecution in the event of their non-compliance with the rules framed for this purpose as the present state of the registration of births is far from satisfactory. The peculiar constitution of the population of our City where there is such a large excess of males renders the birth-rate practically useless for comparative statistics of other towns. To be of any value, the birth-rate calculated on the number of women of child-bearing age should be taken as the true index for purposes of comparing local or racial variations in the birth-rate. Deaths and Death-rates. 12,373 deaths were registered'during the year. In 1924, 11,448 deaths were registered. The death-rates on the Census population for these two years work out at 35*81 and 33-13 respectively. 417 of the total deaths occurred amongst individuals not normally resident in Rangoon but who had come to Rangoon during their final illness and died in Rangoon. The number of deaths registered and the death-rates for the past five years are given in the Table below Year. Deaths. Death-rate on Census population. Death-rate on esti¬ mated population 1920 12,140 41*39 56*75 1921 12,066 35*28 nil 1922 12-232 36-04 35*53 1923 11,918 34*85 33-89 1924 11,443 33 13 32*11 1925 12,373 35*81 33*90 The number of deaths and deatn-rates on Census Population for the various Communities work out as follows:— Communities- Number of Deaths. Death-rate. Anglo-Indians 164 • 19*71 Europeans 60 15*23 Other Classes 513 32*24 Mohammedans and Malays 1,875 30*21 Hindus 4.622 36 79 Burmese 3,971 37*63 Chinese and Panthays 1,168 48*43