ABSTRACTS OF REPORTS BY SUPERINTENDENTS.
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the smallest amount of protection. The last fact is also supported by the figures representing
the percentages of infants vaccinated to number born.
Religion of the vaccinated.
114. The next table furnishes particulars regarding the results of vaccination among
the several classes of the population in the area under
operation:—
Christians...
Hindus ...
Mahomed.
Other races.
POPULATION.
Government agency.
1,160
647,450
1,583,035
1,489
Honorary agency.
7,892
1,106,742
1,759,937
2,578
Licensed agency.
9,992
1,783,849
2,767,023
7,063
Total.
11,152
2,431,299
4,350,058
8,552
TOTAL NUMBER OF EACH
CLASS VACCINATED.
Government agency.
6
37,069
116,712
3,614
Honorary agency.
...
5,486
12,914
803
Licensed agency.
601
44,528
71,308
1,499
Total.
607
87,083
200,934
5,916
PROPORTION PER CENT.
OF EACH CLASS TO TOTAL
VACCINATED.
Government agency.
.003
23.55
74.14
2.29
Honorary agency.
..
28.56
67.24
4.18
Licensed agency.
.50
37.75
60.46
1.27
Total.
.20
29.56
68.21
2.00
PROPORTION PER CENT
OF EACH CLASS TO
POPULATION.
Government agency.
.51
5.72
7.37
242.71
Honorary agency.
...
.49
.73
31.14
Licensed agency.
6.01
2.49
2.57
21.22
Total.
5.44
3.58
4.61
69.17
Of the total operations the largest number is represented by the Mahomedans, and next by
the Hindus. Calculated on population, it appears that the Christian population was best
protected, next the Mahomedans, and third the Hindus, eliminating the " other races " from
consideration, as the percentages of vaccinated among them, as exhibited in the above table,
would indicate that their population has not been correctly censussed.
Cost of vaccination.
115. The operations of the Government agency cost Rs. 10,895.12-3, or at the rate of
1 anna and 1.32 pie for each successful case. Those of the
licensed agency cost Rs. 846, or at 1.38 pie per case Thus
on the whole an aggregate expenditure of Rs. 11,741-12-3 was incurred for the purpose,
the cost of each successful operation being represented by 7.68 pie The corresponding
figures for 1879-80 are—total cost Rs. 11,679-1-7, cost per case 7 pie.
Inspections.
116. The inspection work of the supervising officers of
this circle is detailed in the following table:—
Paid and Honorary Agencies.
Superintendent
...
...
...
Head vaccinators
...
...
...
Licensed
Agency.
Superintendent
...
...
...
Deputy Superintendent ...
Inspectors
...
...
...
...
Number of inspecting
officers.
1
6
1
1
2
Duration of tour.
4 months and 15 days.
6 months each.
4 months and 15 days
6 months.
6 months each.
Number of villages
visited.
169
863
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56
274
Number of persons
vaccinated during
the year.
190,028
104,512
Number of persons
found to nave been
vaccinated.
19,788
64,991
3,467
3,416
12,965
Number of persons
found to have been
successfully vaccin-
ated.
19,706
63,004
3,405
3,409
12,696
Proportion per cent. of
successful
cases
observed.
99.58
96.94
98.21
99.79
97.92
Proportion per cent
of total inspections
to total
number
vaccinated.
44.61
18.99
Proportion per cent
of inspections by
each officer to total
number vaccinated.
10.41
34.20
3.31
3.26
12.40
The inspections prove that satisfactory success attended the operations of the year. The
amount of inspection work, as represented by the percentages, ranging from 3.21 to 34.20,
shown in the last column of the table, is on the whole insufficient. Conspicuous for defi-
ciency is the work of the Deputy Superintendent, and I quite agree with the Superintendent
in condemning it.: The Deputy Superintendent appears, moreover, to have prevented the
Superintendent from entering upon his inspections in Pubna by failing to meet him at
Goalundo, and at Nakabin in thana Mathura, on the plea, in the latter case, that the letter
requiring him to do so reached him after the day fixed for the meeting. He never replied
to this letter, and it appears that he wanted to conceal himself. The Superintendent reports
that he would have visited a larger number of villages had it not been that he had in
Mymensing to inspect large inhabited tracts, called locally "paras," which he classed
as villages, with extensive fields intervening between them.
Inoculation.
117. Inoculation was practised clandestinely in Faridpore and Dacca, although the pro-
hibitory law is in force in these districts. The police say
that as the practice of inoculation is not a cognizable offence,
they cannot take the initiative in the matter, and the people, from apathy or fear, will not
move in it. Thus it is well nigh impossible for a vaccinator to know where the practice is going
on; and if he does detect a case, the difficulties attending the prosecution of the offender are
very great. The Superintendent suggests that if the law cannot be altered, the police
should be directed to report to the Magistrate or to the Superintendent all breaches in this
respect. Some inoculators were prosecuted by the inspectors and fined on conviction. The