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other diseases in its trail requiring
greater attention to be paid to them in-
stead of to small-pox which was not pre-
sent in an epidemic form in the district.
The District Health Officer of Rangpur
also points to the smaller number of vac-
cinators employed by the
District
Board, and attributes to it the decrease
in vaccination operations by 22,355 dur-
ing the year in his district. In Dinaj-
pur also there was a total decrease of
4,855 operations.
Although there was a remarkable in-
crease in the total number of operations
in all the districts of Bengal excepting
the three mentioned above, primary
operations performed during the year
out-number the records of the previous
year only in fifteen districts. Bakar-
ganj with 23,141 primary operations
headed the list. Next in order of num-
erical superiority came Dacca (21,020),
Calcutta (19,363), Birbhum (16,793),
Khulna
(14,843), Pabna
(13,566).
Faridpur (8,460), Noakhali (5,553), Raj-
shahi (4,793), Burdwan (4,641), Malda
(3,980) and Midnapur (2,993).
In
other three districts, viz., Mymensingh,
Chittagong Hill Tracts and Murshida-
bad, the increase was below 2,000.
Decrease in primary operations oc-
curred in Rangpur (20,855), Tippera
(19,451), Dinajpur (8,576), 24-Parga-
nas (4,841), Bogra) (4,586), Chittagong
(4,518), Bankura (3,713), Darjeeling
(2,691) and Jalpaiguri (2,485) and in
the districts of Jessore, Nadia, Howrah
and Hooghly it was below 2,000.
As a precaution against the appre-
hended outbreak of small-pox epidemic
during the year under review, the im-
perative necessity of carrying on a vi-
gorous and systematic vaccination and
re-vaccination campaign in their res-
pective jurisdiction was impressed upon
the local bodies including the District
Boards and Municipalities by the Pub-
lic Health Department and I am glad
to note that as a whole they did their
best to follow the instructions of the
Department in the matter. As a result
thereof, there had been a general rise
in the number of re-vaccination cases in
all the districts in this Presidency ex-
cept Tippera and Rangpur. Calcutta,
which showed during the previous year
the largest decrease in re-vaccinations,
occupied this year the first place in the
roll of increase in re-vaccinations
amounting
to
237,890
operations.
Next in order of numerical superiority
in re-vaccination cases came Burdwan
with 33,321, Mymensingh with 29,575,
Jessore with 24,869, 24-Parganas with
24,268. Malda with 18,452, Rajshahi
with 17,991, Hooghly with 17,115,
Howrah with 16,321, Nadia with
13,852, Chittagong with 12,574, Dacca
with 12,026, Khulna with. 10,189, Bir-
bhum with 9,906, Bankura with 3,807,
Midnapur with 7,776, Darjeeling with
6,603 and Bogra with 6,301 operations.
In the remaining eight districts, viz.,
Noakhali, Faridpur, Pabna, Dinajpur,
Jalpaiguri,
Bakarganj,
Chittagong
Hill Tracts and Murshidabad, the in-
crease was below 5,000.
6. Vaccination in municipalities.—
A total of 293,326 operations was per-
formed in Calcutta during the year, of
which 34,875 were primary operations
and 258,451 re-vaccinations against a
total of 36,073, including 15,512 pri-
mary and 20,561 re-vaccinations during
the preceding year. In mufassal muni-
cipalities the total number of operations
performed was 148,111,
including
67,629 primary and 80,482 re-vaccina-
tions, against a total of 91,735 opera-
tions, composed of 63,668 primary and
28,067 re-vaccinations during 1923-24.
The average number of operations per-
formed by each vaccinator in the mufas-
sal municipalities during the year under
report was 1,036 against 641 in the pre-
ceding year.
7. Vaccination performed by other
agencies.—The
following
statement
shows the number of operations per-
formed by other agencies :—
1923-24.
Tea gardens ..
Factories ..
Railways ..
Steamers ..
Dispensaries ..
Jails ..
Total ..
1924-25.
Tea gardens ..
Factories ..
Railways ..
Steamers ..
Dispensaries ..
Jails ..
Total ..
Primary
vaccination.
4,155
5,827
2,870
..
5
783
13,595
5,122
3,454
2,374
..
912
2,093
13,955
Re-vac-
cination.
1,402
2,710
21,239
11,274
37
32,678
69,340
3,505
15,077
23,681
12,045
783
26,759
81,850
Total.
5,557
8,537
24,109
11,274
42
33,416
82,935
8,627
18,531
26,455
12,045
1,695
28,852
95,805