ABSTRACTS OF REPORTS BY CIVIL SURGEONS.
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Agency.
Work.
One man
insufficient.
Inoculation.
Small-pox
Inspection
Hooghly District.—The vaccination of the district is accomplished by the Metropolitan
Circles. A vaccinator is, however, entertained by the municipalities of Hooghly and
Chinsurah at a salary of Rs. 10 per mensem. This man is under the orders of the Civil
Surgeon. He vaccinated 2,094 persons, and 1,841 successfully for the first time, and performed
800 secondary vaccinations, of which 448 were successful. Vaccination is in great demand
in and around Hooghly, and one man is insufficient. Aid was obtained from the Metropolitan
Circles last season. Inoculation is not practised now. There was a slight outbreak of
small-pox in British Chandernagore in May; the progress of the disease was checked by
vaccination. Both the Civil Surgeon and Assistant Surgeon in charge of the Emambarah
Hospital supervise carefully the vaccinator's proceedings and work, comparing his registers
with the cases.
Agency.
Work.
Inoculation
Small-pox.
Serampore Sub-division.—Dr. Greene reports that the Serampore municipality employ
a vaccinator, who works in the town and its neighbourhood. He vaccinated 1,241 persons,
1,238 successfully. The people, with the exception of a few Mussulmans and Brahmins, accept
vaccination willingly. Dr. Greene states that no inoculation is practised; but the Joint-
Magistrate in charge of the sub-division avers that several cases of inoculation were
reported to him, and that he heard of one death from the practice. A few cases of small-pox
occurred in the sub-division. Three inoculators were instructed in vaccination, but Dr. Greene
heard nothing of their proceedings.
Agency
Inspection
Inoculation.
Small-pox.
Insufficiency of
vaccination.
Howrah District.—The district is vaccinated by the Metropolitan Circles' staff. Dr. Bird
reports that two vaccinators are employed by the municipality, at Rs. 10 each, from 1st Novem-
ber to 31st March. Private practitioners also vaccinate their patients. The vaccinators
work mostly within municipal limits, but when their services are required in the neighbour-
hood they are not refused. The Civil Surgeon inspects the work, and vouches for its amount
and quality. Inoculation is not practised in Howrah. Sixty-nine deaths from small-pox took
place during the year. The disease threatened to become epidemic in December, but fortunately
subsided. The vaccinations do not come up to the birth-rate, but other agencies are also at
work, and on the whole the Civil Surgeon has no reason to think that very many remain
unprotected. A return submitted by him shows from 11 to 30 per cent. of those (of schools)
examined.
CENTRAL DISTRICTS, PRESIDENCY DIVISION.
Vaccinators
employed by
municipalities.
Inoculation.
Small-pox
24-Pergunnahs District.—Vaccination within the limits of the Calcutta and Suburban
municipalities is accomplished by a special establishment; that of the district formed part
of the work of the Metropolitan Circles ; special vaccinators were, however, entertained for
limited periods by the municipalities of Satkhira and Busseerhat, Kederhatty, Bagjulla,
Nawabgunge, Augurparah, and North and South Suburban Towns. The amount of work
done is shown in Table V. Vaccination is now valued and sought by the people, and
inoculation has almost disappeared. One or two men from the Jessore district commenced
operations at Kalarooah near Satkhira, and set up small-pox there; but on the Sub-divisional
Officer moving in the matter, they fled, and the small-pox was stamped out by vaccination.
Several other slight outbreaks occurred in the district, but the disease was neither general
nor severe.
Municipalities
employing
vaccinator.
Inoculation
Small-pox.
Nuddea District.—Vaccinators were employed for short periods by the municipalities, and
with the results noted in Table Y. They were arranged for by the Superintendent of the
Metropolitan Circles. Dr. Bensley, the Civil Surgeon of Nuddea, reports that they did
good work. Vaccination is sought by the inhabitants of this district, and inoculation is
obsolete. Very few cases of small-pox prevailed in the district during the year.
Agency employed.
Work done
Inspection.
Small-pox.
Jessore District.—Surgeon W. H. Gregg, M.B., reports that the work done by the
vaccinators of the Metropolitan Circles was supplemented by four vaccinators entertained by
the Jessore municipality, six ex-inoculators who worked in the Magoorah sub-division, and
vaccinators attached to the dispensaries of Jessore, Nuldangah, Chandra, Sreedhurpore, and
Bagirhaut. The details of the operations of these men are given in Table Y. The total for
the district, 4,376, falls short of last year. The Magoorah ex-inoculators did not work so
well, and were not supervised. Dr. Gupta proposes taking up this sub-division next season,
and attaching as many ex-inoculators to his establishment as desire to be properly and
thoroughly taught vaccination. In Jessore vaccination was carried on at the dispensary
within the bounds of the municipality and in the surrounding villages. The Civil Surgeon
and Assistant Surgeon directed their proceeding, and supervised their work. Inoculation is still
practised in the southern sub-divisions of Khoolnah and Bagirhaut. In the remaining
sub-divisions Act IV of 1865 has been introduced, and the practice prevented. Vaccination is
new to the district, and not very cordially received as yet. Small-pox caused 535 deaths,
which were distributed as follows :—Magoorah sub-division 223, Jessore 118, Jhenidah 25,
Narail 65, Khoolnah 53, and Bagirhaut 51. Next season the whole district will be embraced
in the operations of the Metropolitan Circles.
Agency employed
Moorshedabad District.—Surgeon-Major S. M. Shircore submits a very careful report of
vaccination in this district, from which it appears that fourteen vaccinators were employed as