RESOLUTION
ON THE
REPORT ON LOCK-HOSPITALS
IN
BRITISH BURMA
FOR THE YEAR 1884.
Extract from the Proceedings of the Chief Commissioner, British Burma, in the General Department,—
No. 108., dated the 26th March 1885.
READ—
Report of the Sanitary Commissioner on the working of the several lock-hospitals in the province of
British Burma for the year 1884, with remarks by the Deputy Surgeon-General of Her Majesty's
Forces, British Burma Division.
RESOLUTION.—The lock-hospital at Moulmein, which the Municipal Com-
mittee were not desirous to maintain, was closed on the 1st June 1884. Through-
out the whole of the year under review lock-hospitals were maintained, and rules
connected with them were enforced, at Rangoon, Thayetmyo, and Toungoo, at
the instance of the Military authorities for the protection of the troops. At Akyab
and Bassein, the hospitals were maintained by the desire and at the expense of the
Municipal Committees of those towns, chiefly for the benefit of the floating seafar-
ing population. Except at Rangoon, where there was some overcrowding, the
buildings used as lock-hospitals afforded sufficient accommodation, for the pur-
poses required, and all the institutions were found on inspection to be in fair
working order.
2. So far as concerns the protection afforded by the lock-hospitals to the
European troops in the province, the report shows that although the strength of
the garrison was reduced from 1,880 in 1883 to 1,628 in the past year, the num-
ber of cases of venereal disease which occurred among European soldiers, includ-
ing relapses and importations, was 317, the same as in the previous year.
Of these 288 were fresh cases contracted on the spot. The average ratio of
admissions to hospital on account of diseases of this kind at the three military
stations was 176.86, a higher ratio than in any of the preceding five years.
The increase in the ratio of admissions was common to the three stations, but
was especially marked at Toungoo, where the ratio has been steadily increasing
since 1880.