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ABSTRACTS OF REPORTS BY SUPERINTENDENTS.
He, however issued orders to the police of Bhatgawan and to all the police-stations of
Kaliagunge to explain to the people that vaccination is good for them, and is performed by
Government officers of great skill. The Raj family of Putea and their neighbours are
opposed to, and declined vaccination. In the sanitary reports it is stated that in Maldah
the people are partial to inoculation; that in Rungpore vaccination is very little resisted,
and the people are aware of its advantages ; that at Bogra vaccination has entirely superseded
inoculation, and is now comparatively popular in the district; and that in Darjeeling, although
many of the Bhooteas object to vaccination, it is kindly accepted generally, the people even
requesting the attendance of vaccinators when small-pox occurs in their villages.
Local aid.
65. With the above exceptions the Superintendent gladly
and thankfully acknowledges the fact that he received in many
instances assistance for the promotion, &c., of vaccination, both from the Magistrates,
District Superintendents of Police, and other officials, and from private people. The police
in thanas Kaliagunge, Bulrampore and Bahadurgunj, and zemindar Ajijar Rahamon,
of village Chanderdhai, in thana Ararea, rendered material assistance.
Inoculation.
Kahagunj.
Kishengunj.
Buhampore.
Amour Kusba.
Ararea
Bahadmgunj.
66. The Superintendent has no doubt that inoculation is
practised. Evidence of their work was seen in thana Bul-
rampore towards the end of the season by Deputy Superintendent Tajummul Hossein, but no
offenders were apprehended. In August 1880 the law prohibiting inoculation was introduced
into the thanas in Purneah noted in the margin, and into thana
Phansedewah in Darjiling, but the police did not show any
activity in detecting defaulters. The Civil Surgeon of Maldah
mentions in his sanitary report that his district has not yet been taken in hand by the
Vaccination Department. The Bengal Vaccination Act V of 1880 was extended to the
Rungpore Municipality from the 1st July 1881 by a notification of the 10th May 1881.
Prevalence of small-pox.
67. The vaccinating staff reported 617 cases of small-pox with 65 deaths and 552 recoveries.
Fifty-two of the attacked were said to have been protected—
eight by vaccination from 18 months to five years before, and
44 by inoculation from five to 43 years before. The mortality from this disease known to
vaccinators is of little value, as they do not see the cases till their natural end in death or
recovery. The mortuary records of this office, however, furnish the following: figures as the
reported mortality in the area operated on this year in this circle. Opposite these figures are
also exhibited the deaths and death-rates of the entire, areas attached to the circle :—
DISTRICTS.
Dinagepore... ...
Maldah... ...
Rajshahye...
...
...
Rungpore...
...
...
Bogra...
...
Darjeeling...
...
...
Julparguri... ... ...
Purneah...
...
...
Areas vaccinated.
Whole district...
Ditto... ... ...
Ditto...
...
...
Ditto...
...
...
Ditto...
...
...
Terai...
...
...
Kalimpong...
...
...
Darjeeling... ...
Whole
district...
...
...
Bahadurgunj...
...
...
Amour
Kusba...
...
...
Ararea...
...
...
Kahagunge... ...
Bulrampore...
...
Kishengunge... ...
Total...
GRAND TOTAL...
Deaths.
128
81
11
53
1
14
17
4
212
6
48
25
25
5
......
109
630
Ratio
per
mille.
.08
11
008
.02
001
.29
5.08
11
.50
03
.42
.13
.10
04
...
11
08
ENTIRE MORTALITY.
Deaths.
128
81
11
53
1
35
212
408
929
Ratio
per mille
.08
.11
.008
.02
.001
35
50
.23
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The above table of small-pox mortality points to the urgent necessity of pushing on vaccin-
ation in Dinagepore, Maldah, Kalimpong, Julpaiguri and Purneah.
The following particulars regarding small-pox outbreaks were furnished in the sanitary
reports of the year:—
" In Dinagepore small-pox prevailed with some intensity in some circles, but nowhere
in epidemic form. It was present throughout the year, but prevailed with greater severity
in the first six months throughout, except in Kaliagunge and Habra, where it appeared
after June and September respectively and continued till the end of the year. The circles
that suffered most were Kaliagunge, Birgunge, Habra, Thakoorgaon, and Pirgunge. Birgunge,
Thakoorgaon and Pirgunge are contiguous circles, but the disease did not break out in
them in epidemic form. In Birgunge 17 villages were affected, against 22 in the previous
year. No outbreak occurred in the town.
"At Darjeeling small-pox was brought into the station early in the season by a lady
(an anti-vaccinationist), who became an inmate of one of the hotels while her eldest child
was actually suffering from the. disease. She and her family soon removed to a private house
remotely situated, but a couple of native servants in the hotel were infected, of whom one