ABSTRACTS OF REPORTS BY SUPERINTENDENTS.
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Licensed agency.—This agency, consisting of 141 men, carried on operations during
the working season in the districts of Furreedpore, Dacca and Pubna. In these areas a total
of 116,049 persons were operated on, viz. 34,221 in Furreedpore, 68,404 in Dacca and
13,424 in Pubna. The last named district was for the first time brought under the license
system. During the recess 1,887 vaccinations were performed in Furreedpore. Thus an
aggregate of 117,936 operations were performed during the year.
Honorary agency.—This agency, consisting of candidates for learning work, who have
no licenses granted them or authority to demand fees, but who work in order to find paid
employment or obtain licenses to work independently, worked, five in the district of Dacca and
49 in the district of Mymensing, and performed 19,203 operations, of which 19,171, or 99.83
per cent., were successful. Their work was supervised by the head vaccinators in connection
with the licensed vaccinators.
Thus on the whole 137,139 operations were performed by the unpaid agencies, of
which 136,540 cases, or 99.56 per cent., proved successful.
The Superintendent remarks that the returns of the licensed vaccinators give much
trouble to the office establishment owing to their incorrectness. This year these returns
were sent back for correction 118 times; but these men are very imperfectly educated, and
can but hardly read and write.
During the year 178 men were granted licenses, and of this number 141 undertook to
carry on vaccination, and 37 did not. Referring to this fact, the Superintendent remarks
that considering the feeling of uncertainty as to whether they will be able to get a
livelihood with which the vaccinators proceed to work, and the difficulty that lies in the
way of realizing their fees for operations performed, it is not a wonder that some of the
men, or a larger number of them, did not take up the work, and that it is a matter of
congratulation that so large a number did practise. It appears to him that vaccination is not
sought by the men so much as a profession as a supplementary means to eke out a precarious
and scanty living, and he believes that unless some unlooked-for and greatly favorable change
in the situation occurs, there must sooner or later be a breakdown. As usual,
complaints about non-ability to realize fees were received, but they were not so many
as in the previous year.
When inspecting the Pubna Municipality in November, I found that no vaccine
operations were going on, and that a very large proportion of the people were unvac-
cinated. I called the attention of the Superintendent to the matter, who replied that
the Pubna district was for the first time being worked by the licensed agency, and the town
was included in the scheme which was in progress in it, 250 persons having already
according to the Deputy Superintendent (whose report is not correct) been vaccinated, but
that great difficulties laid in the way of the vaccinators. He added that the practice of
his circle has been always to leave town vaccination to the municipal vaccinators under
the Civil Surgeon, by which Government is relieved of a charge, which taken in the aggregate
represents no small amount of a money.
Source and character of the lymph
employed.
109. Arm-to-arm vaccination was the rule, and when lymph had to be carried tubes were
employed, as being more sure in effect than crusts. The
character of the lymph was with rare exceptions good.
During the recess virus was kept up at the sudder station
and the villages immediately surrounding it, but this was done with great difficulty owing
to paucity of subjects.
Cause of work during the recess.
110. Work during recess was undertaken to maintain
lymph and for the suppression of outbreaks of small-pox.
Amount and value of work performed.
111. The subjoined statement shows the total amount and value of the work per-
formed during the year in this circle as compared with the
result of 1879-80 :—
Government Agency.
In 1880-81
...
...
...
...
In 1879-80
...
...
...
...
Honorary
Agency.
In 1880-81
...
...
...
...
In 1879-80
...
...
...
...
Licensed Agency.
In 1880-81
...
...
...
...
In 1879-80
...
...
...
...
Total... In 1880-81 ...
In 1879-80 ...
Total number vaccin-
ated during the year.
157,401
190,505
19,203
37,289
117,936
78,272
294,540
306,066
PRIMARY
VACCINATIONS.
Total.
157,401
190,593
19,203
37,284
117,936
78,260
294,540
306,137
Successful.
156,986
189,872
19,171
37,174
117,369
77,188
293,526
304,224
RE-VACCIN-
------.
Total.
......
19
......
7
......
26
......
52
Successful.
......
16
......
7
......
26
......
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PERCENTAGE OF
SUCCESSFUL CASES
Primary.
99.73
99.62
99.83
99.70
99.51
98.63
99.65
99.37
Re-vaccin-
ations.
......
84.21
......
100
......
100
......
94.23
Average number of
p ersons vaccinated
by
each vaccinator.
2,678
3,391
1,066
1,963
1,250
1,223
1,722
2,202
Proportion of persons
vaccinated per 1,000
of population.
70.48
85.30
6.67
12.96
25.81
17.13
43.30
45.00
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