Annual report on hospitals and dispensaries in Burma.

  • Burma.
Date:
[1935]
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Credit: Annual report on hospitals and dispensaries in Burma. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Department, and seven in the Medical Department and the same number continued throughout the year. Two officers, however, of the Indian Medical Department were on leave on the 31st December 1935. 6. Private Practitioners.—There was only one temporary Private Practitioner at the beginning of the year, but he was confirmed during the year as a Civil Surgeon and absorbed into the permanent cadre of Burma Civil Surgeons. Thus the cadre of Burma Civil Surgeons was increased from 12 to 13. Two Civil Surgeons retired from service during the year. 7. Civil Assistant Surgeons.- The sanctioned cadre of Civil Assistant Surgeons remained the same as in previous years. The number on the roll on the 1st January 1935, being 62 permanent, two officiating and three temporary. The officiating and temporary Civil Assistant Surgeons were confirmed during the year, one was promoted permanently as a Civil Surgeon and one retired from the service. At the close of the year there were 65 officers on the roll. Of this number three were on duty in the Public Health Department, one was seconded to the Indian Medical Service and three in the Jail Department. Six were on leave and one was on duty at the Burma Medical School, leaving therefore a balance of 51 Civil Assistant Surgeons on duty at the hospitals. To this number, however, must be added the following: one Lady Doctor, five Lady Civil Assistant Surgeons in the Dufferin Hospital, Rangoon, two in the employ of the Corporation, five in Private Aided and Railway Hospitals, and 13 Burma Civil Surgeons, totalling in all 77 on duty in all 'hospitals on the 31st December 1935. 8. Sub-Assistant Surgeons.—At the beginning of the year 1935 the number of Sub-Assistant Surgeons on the roll was 372 against the sanctioned strength of 401 as compared with 373 at the beginning of the year 1934. In June 1935 the cadre was revised and the sanc¬ tioned strength was reduced to 399, but there were only 365 on the roll at that time. During the year there were 11 casualties, but 20 new recruits were entertained, the number of Sub-Assistant Surgeons on the roll at the end of the year being therefore only 381, this number including those on duty at the Jail, on leave and on Foreign Service The number of Sub-Assistant Surgeons employed in all hospitals on 31st December was 340 (340). 9. Honorary Medical Officers, House Surgeons and House Physi¬ cians.— The two honorary medical officers at the Venereal Clinic of the Rangoon General Hospital have continued to be so employed during the year. The scheme of employing House Surgeons and Physicians and Assistant House Surgeons and Physicians was extended during the year to the Hospitals at Moulmein and Akyab and this together with the four honorary medical officers at the Rama Krishna Hospital will