Report on the public health administration of Burma : 1935.

  • Burma. Department of Public Health.
Date:
[1935]
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Credit: Report on the public health administration of Burma : 1935. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    These figures relate to passenger traffic by sea and take no account of the large number of people who come into or depart from Burma by the land routes. There has been an increase both in the number of immigrants and of emigrants, and the addition to the population of Burma also shows an increase. The vast majority of immigrants, viz., 242,811, entered the Province through Rangoon, and of that figure 223,233 came from India. Of the 194,009 emigrants from that port, 176,470 were bound for India. The number of outgoing passengers at the Akyab Port exceeded the incoming by 8,952, but as has been pointed out in previous annual reports, this balance is misleading as a large number of Indian labourers, who enter Arakan each year by the land route from Bengal during the harvest season, return to their native country by sea. 6. Provincial Birth and Death Rates based on an estimated Population.—An estimate has been made of the provincial population at midyear in 1935, by adding the excess of births over deaths and the balance between immigrants and emigrants for the previous twelve months (excluding the Arakan immigration and emigration figures which for reasons already explained show a false balance) to the population which was similarly estimated to exist in the midyear 1934. The estimated population is given in the following table in which a comparison is made between the annual birth and death rates since 1931, calculated {a) on the estimated midyear population and (b) on the 1931 census figure. The divergence is now as large as 1'53 per 1000 in the birth rate and 0'94 in the death rate :— Year. (1) Estimated midyear — population. w Number of births. Birth rate based on 4* the estimated popula¬ tion. Birth rate based on uj the 1931 census population. & Number of deaths. Death rate based on 3 the estimated popula¬ tion. Death rate based on the 2S 1931 census popula¬ tion. Difference in birth ^ rates (5)—(4). p: Difference in death S rates (8) —(7). 1931 12,130,848 321,054 26 47 26-53 210,109 17-32 17-36 006 0-04 1932 12,220,290 335,886 27-49 27-75 209,420 17-14 17-30 026 016 1933 12,380,223 360,958 29-16 29‘83 226,451 18 29 18-71 0-67 042 1934 12,524,307 365,728 29‘20 30-22 249,547 1993 2062 102 0-69 1935 12,689,301 399,773 31-50 33-03 247,135 19-48 20-42 1-53 0-94 In view of the fact that the migration figures refer only to passenger traffic by sea and ignore migration overland, another table is published Statements I and II.