ABSTRACT OF REPORTS BY CIVIL SURGEONS.
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visited six villages, saw 250 cases, and found that all of them were successfully operated on.
The Civil Hospital Assistant inspected 250 cases in two villages, and found that all were success-
ful. The work of the ex-inoculator could not be seen to, as he carried on his operations at a
distance of 30 miles from the sudder station. With reference to this man, who has worked suc-
cessfully for years, it is stated that he was promised, but never received, any remuneration.
He applied this year to the Magistrate for it, but there was no fund from which he could be
paid. It is feared that as he receives no remuneration he will revert to inoculation. The
people in these towns are, with few exceptions, in favour of vaccination. In the district
inoculation is largely practised. The Civil Surgeon remarks that vaccination has not yet
been extended to this district, and that it is much needed in it to counteract the evil effects
of inoculation. No deaths from small-pox were reported to have occurred in either of these
municipalities during the year.
CHITTAGONG DIVISION.
28. Chittagong.—There were eight vaccinators employed during the year, as follows :—
Number.
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
Where employed.
Putteah police-station... ...
Banskhalli thana... ...
Chittagong Municipality... ...
Ditto ...
Cox's Bazar Municipality
... ...
Anwara thana... ...
Sitakund
thana...
...
Period at work.
10th November 1880 to 31st
March 1881.
Ditto
Ditto.
1st November 1880 to 31st
March 1881.
1st December 1880 to 31st
March 1881.
April to 14th May 1880 and
29th Januaray to 31st
March 1881.
Short time in January and
February 1881.
Salary.
Rs.
10
10
15
Without
pay.
By whom paid.
Government.
Municipality.
Ditto.
The men who worked at the Anwara and Sitakund thanas were licensed vaccinators.
On the date when this report was submitted (April 1881), five vaccinators were still at work,
as small-pox was prevalent in several parts of the district. Compared with last year, it
appears that in the district protection was again afforded to the Putteah police-station, and
that thanas Banskhalli, Anwara and Sitakund were taken up anew. The lymph was
obtained originally from this office, and the virus was kept up from arm-to-arm vaccination
and crusts. The work performed by the above eight men is shown in the subjoined table,
compared with the results of 1879-80, when six vaccinators were employed:—
In 1880-81...
In 1879-80...
Total number vaccinated.
1,615
1,257
Average number vaccinated by
each vaccinator.
231
209
PRIMARY VACCINATIONS.
Total.
1,589
1,267
Successful.
Under one year.
320
One year and
under six.
792
No data.
Total of all ages.
1,373
1,053
Re-vaccin-
ations.
Total.
26
...
Successful.
15
...
Percentages
of success-
ful cases.
Primary.
86.4
83.8
Re-vaccination.
67.7
...
RELIGION OF THE VACCINATED.
Number vaccinated.
Hindus.
172
Mahomedans.
1,225
Christians.
26
Other races.
192
Proportion per cent. to
total vaccinated.
Hindus.
10.7
Mahomedans.
75.9
Christians.
1.6
Other races,
11.9
No data.
There was an advance in the number of operations, but the rate of success that attended
them, though a little better, was still unsatisfactory. Births are not registered at any of
the places where the vaccination was carried on, except at Chittagong, where 606 births
were reported to have occurred. But the estimated births of the entire area amount to
9,637, and on this number the percentage of infants vaccinated to number born comes to
only 3 32. With regard to the religion of the vaccinated, it is found that of Hindus .15
per cent. of the population, of Mahomedans .60 per cent., of Christians 3.07 per cent., and
of other races 2.34 per cent., had been operated on. The Civil Surgeon, who only joined
his appointment in March 1881, visited only the Banskhalli station. The results of his
inspection are not given, nor are those of the former Civil Surgeon known. The municipal
operations are said to be periodically inspected, but there are no inspecting officers for the
interior. The people are generally opposed to vaccination and in favour of inoculation, which
is very prevalent. This feeling is stated to be stronger in the town, and less so in the north-
western portion of the district. The Civil Surgeon states that he has not come across a
single man who had not been inoculated or had small-pox naturally, and that in March the
natives themselves attributed a good many deaths to inoculation in some of the suburbs of
the town of Chittagong, but would not substantiate their statements when asked to do so.
The law prohibiting inoculation, which was introduced into the district experimentally for
one year in June 1879, was allowed to drop after the expiry of the experimental period in
June 1880. The reason has not been given. This is to be regretted, especially as the