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

  • Rangoon (Burma). Health Office
Date:
[1934]
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Credit: Annual report of the Health Officer for the City of Rangoon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1] ths registered for The following table gives statistical summary of bir the years 1933 and 1934 with their percentage rates ; — Total No. of births including still-births registered Total No. of still-births notified Percentage of still-births to total No. of births registered Total No. of births excluding still-births Total No. of confinements attended to by qualified Doctors or Midwives Percentage of confinements attended to by qualified Doctors or Midwives *Totial No. of confinements attended to by the Corporation Staff ... Percentage of confinements attended to by the Corporation Staff ... Total No. of children born in Dufferin Hospital Percentage of children born iln Dufferin Hospital Total No. of confinements attended to by the Maternity and Infant Welfare Society Staff Percentage of confinements attended to by the Maternity and Infant Welfare Society Staff Total No. attended to by relatives ... Percentage attended to by relatives Total No. of births registered in Cantonment Percentage of births registered in Cantonment Total No. of births registered in Military Police Hospital Percentage of births registered in Military Police Hospital Total No. of confinements attended to Iby unqualified Midwives Percentage of confinements attended to by unqualified Mid wives ... Total No. of births registered in General Hospital Percentage of births registered in General Hospital Health Visitors were doing the work of Midwives‘in addition to the five Midwives especially employed for this purpose 1934. 1933. 10,448 10,138 659 711 6'73 7*54 9,789 9,427 1.414 1,386 14*44 14*70 466 769 * 476 8*16 2,191 2,042 22*38 21*66 1,691. 1,617 17*27 17*15 1 1 0*01 0*01 3 3 0*03 0*03 2 18 0-02 0*19 4,023 3,591 4110 38*10 2 3 0’02 0*03 1933 all the six Lady Measures adopted for the Prevention of Infantile Mortality in Rangoon may be described under the following heads : — (1) Home visits paid by Lady Health Visitors with a view to get in touch with prospective Mothers and the mothers of newly born infants so that Anti-natal conditions likely to adversely affect the future infants may receive attention at proper time and mothers with newly born infants may be instructed in the art of Mother- craft. (2) Attendance on confinement. (3) Maternity Shelters. (4) Infant Welfare Centres and distribution of Milk to necessitous Mothers. Lady Health Visitors. In December 1933 the Corporation sanctioned, for a period of three years, a tentative scheme for the reduction of infantile mortality whereby the number of Lady Health Visitors was increased from 6 to 15 and they were to be solely employed for the purpose of offering advice and instruction to the mothers in the art of bringing up their infants. The paucity of trained Health Visitors in Burma is well known and unfortunately owing to this difficulty out of the 14 Lady Health Visitors employed by the Corporation, only one is a trained Health Visitor. It is, however, hoped that with the establishment of the Burma Health School, this difficulty would disappear in future. The Corporation has been given the privilege of nominating four candidates from amongst its staff for training at this School.
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