ABOUT SHAN STATE

Posted on July 1st, 2008 by Mawkmoonmai

About Shan State (According to The Imperial Gazetteer of India)

The Imperial Gazetteer of India
Meyer, William Stevenson, Sir, 1860-1922.
Burn, Richard, Sir, 1871-1947.
Cotton, James Sutherland, 1847-1918.
Risley, Sir Herbert Hope, 1851-1911.
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New edition, published under the authority of His Majesty's secretary of state for India in council.
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1908-1931 [v. 1, 1909]

Shan States, Sourthern.

Administration

267 SOUTHRN SHAN STATES
ning of 1905 the school contained 70 pupils. The education given is Anglo-vernacular (Burmese), and Shan is not taught. There are hospitals at Taunggyi, Hsamonghkam, Loilem, and Kengtung; and dispensaries at Kuheing in Mongnai, and at Kalaw on the Taunggyi= Chazi road. These contain accommodation for 52 in-patients, of whom 691 were treated in 1903. The out-patients treated during the same year numbered 22,i29, and the total of operations was 255. The income of these hospitals, derived (with the exception of Rs. 473 subscribed at Taunggyi and Hsambnghkam) from Provincial funds, amounted to Rs. 11,000.
In 1903-4 the number of persons successfully vaccinated was 6,083, representing 7 per i,ooo of population. [Sir J. G. Scott, Upper Burma Gazetteer, 5 vols. (Rangoon, 1900-1).]

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