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PROVINCIAL STATEMENT A
Showing the degree of protection afforded to infants during the year 1923-24.
DISTRICT.
1
Malda ... ...
Darjeeling... ...
Rajshahi... ...
Jalpaiguri... ...
Dinajpur... ...
Khulna... ...
Howrah... ...
Tippera... ...
Nadia... ...
Murshidabad... ...
Burdwan... ...
Midnapur... ...
Noakhali... ...
24-Parganas... ...
Bankura...
Hooghly... ...
Jessore... ...
Chittagong Hill Tracts
(c)
Rangpur... ...
Birbhum... ...
Chittagong... ...
Bogra... ...
Pabna... ...
Mymensingh... ...
Dacca... ...
Faridpur... ...
Bakarganj ... ...
Total of rural circles...
Calcutta... ...
Muffassal
municipa-
lities.
GRAND
TOTAL...
Rural population
among which
vaccinations
were
performed.
2
955,830
254,045
1,457,037
921,749
1,687,328
1,421,116
778,893
2,678,627
1,390,704
1,182,983
1,343,185
2,595,071
1,465,071
1,998,318
964,487
900,802
1,700,924
173,243
2,488,778
838,655
1,570,760
1,032,300
1,344,633
4,710,669
2,975,915
2,202,783
2,563,849
43,597,755
907,851
2,189,930
46,695,536
Number of
births during
the year. (a)
3
32,026
8,842
48,807
32,149
60,062
42,039
23,318
61,977
51,860
50,358
50,323
72,812
49,748
49,682
31,735
26,862
54,418
5,301
79,114
30,938
50,368
25,154
35,797
134,240
90,319
70,151
87,580
1,355,980
17,339
41,358
1,414,677
Mortality
among
infanta
under one
year.
4
5,357
1,436
11,810
6,836
13,920
8,218
3,876
7,659
10,427
8,706
10,724
12,798
6,623
8,525
6,380
4,996
8,174
965
17,667
6,815
7,409
5,419
7,354
24,458
13,579
11,996
16,190
248,317
5,271
8,316
261,904
Surviving
population
under one year
available for
vaccination.
5
26,669
7,406
36,997
25,313
46,142
33,821
19,442
54,318
41,433
41,652
39,599
60,014
43,125
41,157
25,355
21,866
46,244
4,336
61,447
24,123
42,959
19,735
28,443
109,788
76,740
58,155
71,390
1,107,663
12,068
33,042
1,152,773
Number
successfully
vaccinated.
6
24,663
5,110
23,179
12,237
19,897
13,604
7,813
21,259
15,814
14,720
13,018
15,888
11,375
10,193
5,775
4,761
9,583
835
10,445
3,769
6,216
2,720
3,615
12,097
5,905
2,085
1,710
278,286
5,704
18,740
302,730
Proportion of
persons
successfully
vaccinated
per 1,000 of
population as
shown in
column 5.
7
924.7
689.9
626.5
483.4
431.2
402.2
401.8
391.3
381.6
353.4
328.7
264.7
263.7
247.6
227.8
217.7
207.2
192.5
169.9
156.2
144.7
137.6
127.09
110.1
76.9
35.8
23.9
251.2
472.6
567.1
262.6
Proportion
of persons
successfully
vaccinated
per 1,000 of
population
during
1922-23. (b)
8
987.5
713.1
499.9
527.6
501.6
524.2
254.9
614.7
462.2
343.3
335.6
320.1
248.6
228.5
331.4
304.4
309.9
234.7
103.9
87.4
132.5
880.2
245.1
11.1
93.2
57.5
33.5
268.1
695.1
506.5
280.7
(a) The actual number of births recorded during 1923-24 in the towns and rural areas of the Presidency has been shown in column 3 in
place of the estimated birth rates used for calculation of the birth figures in the reports for the previous years.
(b) In order to facilitate comparison of figures for 1923-24 with those of 1922-23, the proportion of persons successfully vaccinated
per 1,000 of population during 1922-23 as shown in column 8 has been calculated on the actual number of births registered in the year.
(c) In the Chittagong Hill Tracts the registration of births and deaths is not carried out. The number of births and deaths among
infants has been calculated at the sute of birth (30.6) and of infant mortality (182.1) obtaining in the Presidency during 1923.