BURMA.

            MEDICAL DEPARTMENT—No. 4787/L.A.-9.

FROM

        LIEUT.-COLONEL H. S. CORMACK, M.C., I.M.S.,

                Officiating Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Burma.

To

        THE SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF BURMA,

                DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND PUBLIC WORKS.

                                                    Dated Rangoon, the 1st April 1941.

SIR,

I have the honour to submit herewith the Annual Report of
the Mental Hospitals at Tadagale and Minbu for the year 1940.

Accommodation.

2. The accommodation in the two Mental Hospitals remained the
same as in the previous year, viz., 1,047 (882
males and 165 females) at Tadagale and 139
males at Minbu, or a total of 1,186 (1,021 males and 165 females) at
both the institutions. There was no overcrowding either at the Mental
Hospital, Tadagale or at Minbu.

Statements I and II.

3. At Tadagale the year commenced with a population of 729
patients (610 males and 119 females) and
ended with 749 patients (629 males and 120
females). The daily average population was 751, the maximum
number confined on any one night being 778 (641 males and 137
females). At Minbu the year commenced with 134 patients and ended
with 126. The daily average population at Minbu was 130.

Statements I and II.

4. Admissions and Discharges.—At Tadagale the total number of
patients admitted during the year was 382
(312 males and 70 females) as compared with
331 (281 males and 50 females). There were neither admissions nor
re-admissions at the Mental Hospital, Minbu. The increase at the
Mental Hospital, Tadagale was due mainly to the large number of
criminal patients admitted during the year.

In this connection it may be mentioned that the principle of
keeping hospital accommodation strictly to classes of patients mentioned
in paragraph IV of " G '' Circular No. 7 of 1940, i.e. for criminal
patients, for dangerous civil patients and for early recoverable cases
was strictly adhered to during the year under review.