RESOLUTION

ON THE

REPORT ON LOCK-HOSPITALS

IN

BRITISH BURMA

FOR THE YEAR 1879.

Extract from the Proceedings of the Chief Commissioner, British Burma, in the General Department,—
No. 4-28, dated the 11th June 1880.

READ—

Annual Reports on the working of the several Lock-hospitals in the province of British Burma for
the year 1879.

Read also—

The Review on the working of the Lock-hospitals by the Deputy Surgeon-General, British Burma
division.

     RESOLUTION.—At the beginning of the year 1879 there were eight lock-
hospitals in this province. Three of these, at Rangoon, Toungoo, and Thayetmyo,
were worked under the Cantonment Act, and the remaining five at Moulmein,
Akyab, Bassein, Prome, and Henzada, under the Contagious Diseases Act. The
necessity or otherwise for lock-hospitals at the inland towns of Prome and Henzada,
where no troops are stationed, formed the subject of correspondence in the early
part of the year, with the result that in the month of April the Henzada Lock-
hospital was finally closed. The Prome Hospital has not yet been closed, the
Commissioner of Pegu and the Deputy Surgeon-General having both opposed
the step. The experience of the past year has however convinced the Chief Com-
missioner that the extension of the Contagious Diseases Act to this town has been
productive of little or no good; and as the present Deputy Surgeon-General is of
the same opinion, the sanction of the Government of India will be asked to the
cancelment of the notifications extending the Act to Prone.

     2. The total number of the women whose names were borne on the regis-
ters of the several lock-hospitals during the year 1879 was 1,020, and 1,123 cases
of disease occurred among them. There was an increase in the number of
admissions to hospital at Moulmein, Bassein, and Akyab, and a decrease at the
other hospitals. The average number of women on the registers was 678, the
number at the beginning of the year having been 655, and the number at the end
of the year 681. The average attendance of the women at the periodical exami-
nations was 70.6 per cent. of the whole, or 89.3 per cent. if the number of women
in hospital be counted as present at examinations in Rangoon as they have been
at the other hospitals. The attendance improved at Rangoon, Thayetmyo, and
Akyab, but fell off somewhat at the other hospitals. The gross cost of the lock-
hospitals to Government was Rs. 26,547, giving an average cost for each women
in hospital of nearly Rs. 189. Rs. 695 was recovered in fines, and Rs. 471-10-0