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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    account for the increase in the total number of honorary graduates and licentiates. There were 24 House Surgeons and Physicians against 18 in the previous year and 12 Assistant House Surgeons and Physi¬ cians against 10 in the previous year. 10. Nursing Establishment.—The number (399) of female nurses employed in all hospitals in Burma showed a distinct increase over the previous year (369). This increase is indeed very welcome, but there is room for a still greater increase since an adequate nursing staff is an important factor in the efficiency of a hospital. 11. Compounders.—The number of Compounders trained during the year was 19 of whom 17 were Burmans, and 2 were Indians. The total number of compounders employed in the Province was more or less the same as last year, the number for 1935 being 305 against 307 in 1934. 12. As will be seen from its heading, Statement C refers to State- Statement C Public, Local Funds and Private Aided Insti¬ tutions dnly. The total number of patients treated in 1935 was 3,177,284 including 2,055 patients treated by Subsi¬ dized Medical Practitioners although similar figures were not included in 1934. Without however including the patients treated by Subsidized Medical Practitioners, the total number treated in 1935 was 3,175,229 (3,091,413). The increase may be ascribed to more than one cause, for example, growing appreciation in the benefits derived from following the “ Prescriptions ” of Western Medical Science or on account of the economic conditions of the patients. In normal times some of the patients who sought treatment at hospitals would probably have gone instead to private practitioners. But whatever the cause or causes ma}^ be for this growing increase in attendance, it is impossible to deny that it means more work in hospitals, and therefore, a fortiori, need for greater assistance to those hospitals which find it difficult to cope with the increased expenditure. 13. Race and Sex.—Appendix 1 is a statement indicating by race and sex the number of patients treated in State- Appendix l- Public, Local Funds and Private Aided Hospitals in Burma. It will be observed from this statement that Burmans head the list with 60 per cent (61 per cent) the balance com¬ prising Hindus 22 pier cent (21 per cent) Moliamedans 13 per cent (13 per cent) and Europeans and Anglo-Indians and “ Others ” 5 per cent (5 per cent). It will thus be seen that the proportion between the different races in Burma has been maintained. As regards sex, females accounted for 22 per cent which is the same percentage as in the previous year.