RANCHEE CIRCLE.
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I hope, be considered as sufficient reasons why the annual returns and report have been
delayed beyond the usual time for their submission.
23. The table appended shows the number of cases inspected and the results obtained.
Great efforts were made to get the villagers to allow themselves and their children to be vac-
cinated in more than one point, and with what success is shown in the table. It is, however,
to be remembered that this table shows the result of vaccination with the needle.* In only a
very few operations was the lancet used.
Table of inspected
cases.
Seen after the 16th day ...
Seen from the 13th to the
16th day ... ...
Seen from the 9th to the
12th day ... ...
Seen from the 5th to the
8th day ... ...
Seen from the 1st to the
4th day ... ...
Vaccinated in 4
points, of which were
successful.
4
34
6
17
15
59
131
3
...
...
10
2
...
12
2
1
...
2
2
...
5
1
1
...
2
1
...
4
F.
2
...
...
1
...
3
3 points.
3
23
5
1
1
28
58
2
2
6
...
3
...
11
1
...
...
2
2
...
4
F.
5
...
...
3
...
8
2 points.
2
1,262
241
315
229
30
2,007
1
363
51
129
77
...
620
F.
8
12
23
26
...
69
1 point.
1
1,502
760
295
393
87
3,037
F.
91
6
29
99
...
225
Doubtful
1
...
15
...
...
16
Sore arms.
19
5
...
...
...
24
Compared with
the register
2,930
1,051
783
854
204
5,822
Total.
3,314a
1,092b
840c
854
204
6,304
Absent.
696
156
230
256
27
1,365
Grand total
4,010
1,148
1,070
1,176
231
7,807
Remarks.—The percentage of successful points is 88.13, and of successful cases 95.79.
(a) 384 cases present not compared with the register.
(b) 41
ditto
ditto
ditto
ditto
(c)
57
ditto
ditto
ditto
ditto.
Lymph.
24. Lymph.—Several supplies were received from Calcutta, but most of it was found to
be of little use. Thanks to small-pox, and the consequent employment of some of the
establishment in the interior, a small stock of lymph was preserved in the circle, and this
served with that from Calcutta as a beginning; but some delay was caused by the scanty
supply, for all the parties could not be fully furnished so as to enter at once upon extensive
work, and the stock had to be carefully nursed for a time.
Vaccine census.
25. Vaccine census.—A school in Lohardugga, and another in Hazareebagh, were taken ;
also Hazareebagh Central Jail, a tolah near Hazareebagh, and a part of the town of Purulia,
&c. The following table is the result of the numbering. Many of the enumerated, who
declared that they had small-pox, but upon whose skin no pitting appeared, were doubtless
unprotected.
Vaccine Census, 1873-74.
Had small-pox
...
Vaccinated
...
Inoculated ...
Unprotected
...
Total
...
Male ... ... ... ...
Female ... ... ... ...
Male ... ... ... ...
Female ... ... ... ...
Male ... ... ... ...
Female ... ... ... ...
Male ... ... ... ...
Female ... ... ... ...
Male ... ... ... ...
Female ... ... ... ...
Grand Total ...
Percentage unprotected
...
...
...
...
362
33
70
34
780
121
59
46
1,271
234
1,505
6.96
I enclose the annual returns in the usual forms and the sketch map of the circle. The
eastern part of Kashmar and the south part of Tamar should have been left uncrossed.
J. J. WOOD, M.B.,
Superintendent of Vaccination, Ranchee Circle.
RANCHEE,
The 26th August 1874.
* NOTE.—Seton's Hand-Book of Vaccination, pages 117 and 217.