REPORT

ON THE WORKING OF THE

Harcourt Butler Institute of Public Health,
Rangoon

For the Year 1940.

     STAFF OF THE INSTITUTE—Director.—Mr. K. P. Kundu, M.B. (Cal.),
D.Bact. (Lond.).

     Assistant Director .—Post held in abeyance.

     Malariologist.—U Tin, D.T.M.

     Public Analyst.—Post held in abeyance.

     Assistant Chemist.—Mr. G. C. Moitra, B.Sc., F.C.S., from 1st January
to 28th March, and from 8th May to 31st December 1940.

     Mr. A. K. Sen-Gupta, M.Sc., F.I.C.S., from 29th March to 7th May
1940.

     Second Assistant Chemist.—Mr. A. K. Sen-Gupta, M.Sc., F.I.C.S., from
1st January to 28th March, and from 8th May to 31st December 1940.

     Assistant Malariologist.—Mr. Robert K. Singh, M.B., B.S.

     Assistant Bacteriologist.—Sub-Assistant Surgeon U Pa How.

     Second Assistant Bacteriologist.—Sub-Assistant Surgeon U Kaung
Mra Thoo, from 1st January to 30th June 1940.

     Sub-Assistant Surgeon U Ohn Pe, from 11th July to 31st December
1940.

     Tutor for the Special Class of training of Public Health Inspectors.—
Sub-Assistant Surgeon U Kaung Mra Thoo, from 1st July to
31st December 1940.

     Visitors.—The following persons visited the Institute during the
year:—

       Dr. Bruce Mayne, Special Expert, United States Public Health
Service and member of the League of Nations Malaria Commission.

       Dr. L. L. Williams, Senior Surgeon, United States Public Health
Service and member of the League of Nations Malaria Commission.

     ACTIVITIES OF THE INSTITUTE.—The activities of the Institute are
divided into (1) Teaching, (2) Routine Public Health Laboratory work,
(3) Investigation and Research, (4) Public Health Propaganda, and
(5) Issue of Prophylactic Vaccines.