11
states
that he
vaccinated
about
1,000 persons with his own hand by this
method and he found it more successful
than the old gridiron process. Others
relying on the reports of their Sub-In-
spectors of Vaccination and vaccinators
hold a reverse opinion. Naturally the
vaccinators, used to the old method, feel
a distaste for any innovation and so long
as they are not sufficiently practised in
the new method, the results obtained by
them cannot be accepted as a reliable
index of the failure of the linear method
vaccination.
11. Cost of Vaccination.—The total
cost of vaccination in 1927-28 amounted
to the sum of Rs. 4,89,681-9-8 against
Rs. 4,52,819-14-9 in the previous year.
Rupees 1,77,523-0-8 (including the recur-
ring annual grant of Rs. 50,000 by the
local Government for free vaccination)
was contributed from provincial reve-
nues, Rs. 1,90,037-1-6 from district and
Rs. 1,22,121-7-6 from municipal funds.
The average cost of each successful case
was two annas and eight pies against
two annas and eleven pies in the preced-
ing year.
Statement showing the number of vaccinations performed by the Sanitary
Inspectors, Vaccination Inspecting
staff and the number of villages
where small-pox was
prevalent
during 1927-28.
Districts.
Burdwan .. ..
Birbhum ..
Bankura ..
Midnapur ..
Hooghly .. ..
Howrah .. ..
24-Parganas ..
Nadia .. ..
Murshidabad ..
Jossore .. ..
Khulna .. ..
Rajshahi ..
Dinajpur ..
Jalpaiguri ..
Rangpur ..
Bogra .. ..
Pabna .. ..
Malda .. ..
Dacca .. ..
Mymensingh ..
Faridpur ..
Bakarganj ..
Chittagong ..
Noakhali ..
Tippera .. ..
Total ..
Number
of vil-
lages
in the
district.
2,817
2,302
4,003
10,351
2,197
863
3,427
2,353
1,974
3,613
2,011
4,487
6,612
722
4,102
2,780
2,539
2,239
4,737
7,354
3,363
2,990
870
1,719
4,018
84,443
Number
of vil-
lages
attacked
with
small-
pox.
362
379
198
1,179
633
100
427
113
279
56
236
270
446
51
134
134
543
449
957
711
82
174
237
221
227
8,598
Number
of sani-
tary
Inspec-
tors.
12
3
4
19
5
7
15
6
6
7
17
5
8
2
12
5
8
11
21
19
7
16
8
14
11
248
Number of operations
performed by
Sanitary Inspectors.
Primary.
..
598
942
..
152
36
1,389
4
762
266
353
94
118
6
..
..
665
..
3,188
1,571
695
1,889
..
..
541
13,269
Re-vac-
cination.
..
1,038
2,127
..
260
170
2,569
68
1,189
746
138
657
138
22
..
5
2,053
..
2,588
1,981
970
642
..
..
1,386
18,747
Total.
3,874
1,636
3,069
13,879
412
206
3,958
72
1,951
1,012
491
751
256
28
1,431
5
2,718
1,848
5,776
3,552
1,665
2,531
2,297
3,901
1,927
59,246
Number
of vac-
cination
Inspec-
tors and
Sub-Ins-
pectors.
..
3
2
7
3
2
7
6
5
1
3
3
3
3
3
2
2
2
5
6
5
4
3
4
3
87
Number of operations
performed by the
Vaccination Inspecting
staff.
Primary.
..
505
719
..
521
432
1,069
602
1,012
79
105
252
1,767
376
..
85
1,055
..
611
2,087
1,187
2,905
..
..
4,088
18,457
Re-vac-
cination.
..
1,880
1,687
..
2,937
101
1,658
4,568
6,438
63
492
196
5,704
1,473
..
128
1,432
..
680
218
2,631
2,479
..
..
3,268
38,033
Total.
..
2,335
2,406
4,453
3,458
533
2,727
5,170
7,450
142
597
448
7,471
1,849
1,487
213
2,487
1,691
1,291
2,305
3,818
5,384
313
8,214
7,356
73,594
12. Deaths from
small-pox.—The
diagram on page 10 shows the death
rates from small-pox in each district and
the proportion of population protected
against the disease by vaccination during
the past ten years. The epidemic of
small-pox which originated in December,
1924, is still going on. It will appear
from the figures noted below that the
number of deaths from this disease has
been gradually increasing since the year
1924-25 when the quinquennial outbreak
started.
1924-25.
10,443
1925-26.
18,618
1926-27.
31,936
1927-28.
39,713
This increase has been shared by prac-
tically every district.
In the Public Health Report for the
year 1923, Dr. Bentley had forecasted a
specially severe recrudescence of small-
pox almost in the form of a pandemic
in 1930-33 and a glance at the
figures quoted above is sufficient to
convince one that the situation has been
steadily heading towards the fulfilment
of the prediction. Since 1900 small-pox
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