ABSTRACTS OF REPORTS BY SUPERINTENDENTS.
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Thana Kaliagunge was somewhat too large for the staff assigned to it; help from Kishen-
gunge and Phansedewah had therefore to be given after the work in these thanas had been
completed.
Source of supply of lymph, and how
kept up.
56. The English lymph did not prove successful, many complaints having been received
of its failure. That obtained from the Darjeeling hills was
sufficient, and a small weekly supply was also sent to this
office during the working season. Some of the vaccinators
allowed their lymph to fail or die out from carelessness, and in some cases the obstinacy of
the villagers prevented its being kept up; but on the whole the virus was well preserved
and plentiful.
Work performed during the year,
and its value.
57. In the following statement is exhibited the amount
of work performed as compared with the results of the
preceding year:—
Government Agency.
In
1880-81...
...
...
In 1879-80... ... ...
Licensed Agency.
In 1880-81... ... ...
In
1879-80...
...
...
Total of the year.
In
1880-81...
...
...
In
1879-80...
...
...
Total number vaccinated
during the year.
175,684
238,035
168,387
135,514
344,071
373,549
PRIMARY VACCIN-
------.
Total.
175,831*
238,379†
168,811*
135,581†
344,642
373,960
Successful.
173,456
234,025
166,635
134,028
340,091
368,053
RE-VACCINATIONS.
Total.
369
719
13
126
382
845
Successful
216
428
11
118
227
546
PERCENTAGE OF
SUCCESSFUL CASES.
Primary.
98.64
98.17
98.71
98.85
98.67
98.42
Re-vaccination.
58.53
59.52
84.61
93.65
59.42
64.61
Average number of persons
vaccinated by each vaccin-
ator.
3,819
5,175
1,220
1,129
1,870
2,250
Proportion
successfully
vaccinated per 1,000 of
population.
35.87
48.48
27.45
22.10
40.79
41.81
* Includes 516 repetition cases
* Ditto
437
ditto
do.
† Ditto
1,063
ditto
do.
‡ Ditto
193 ditto
do.
1880-81
1879-80.
The figures indicate a considerable reduction in the number of vaccinations performed
by the Government, agency, but an appreciable increase in the work of the licensed agency,
culminating in a decrease in the number of the total vaccinations of the year to the extent
of 29,478. The quality of the work was, however, equally good throughout as in the
preceding year, and very satisfactory. It is very creditable to the licensed agency to
have attained the success it has. The failure attending the operations of the Government
agency is attributed to the very strenuous opposition exhibited by the people in the Ararea
thana in Purneah, who hid their children and would not produce them for vaccination,
which precluded this area being well taken in hand at once ; to the want of skill and tact
in the Native Superintendent attached to this area .(who had therefore to be changed), which
nullified the endeavours made by the Deputy Superintendent to redeem the failure; to
inoculation having been practised in this district year by year ; to the great sickness, espe-
cially fever, that prevailed among the people in this and other areas; to the like sickness
under which the establishment laboured, which caused many of the men, from the
Superintendent downwards, either to remain off work or to go on leave. To these should
be added the scantiness of the population of Phansedewah, in the Terai sub-division. But
the Superintendent is of opinion that, considered as a whole, the entire area taken up for the
season's work was, in spite of the more than usual difficulties that were experienced,
vaccinated nearly up to the estimate. It is worthy of record that the Deputy Superin-
tendent, Tajummul Hossein, worked indefatigably in spite of sickness.
Work during the recess.
58. Operations were carried on during the recess in the following districts, where 7,234
persons were vaccinated, attended with success in 6,875 cases,
or in the proportion to total vaccinated of 95.03 per cent.
This work was performed by 12 of the vaccinators.
Darjeeling...
...
...
Julparguri... ... ...
Cooch Behar... ... ...
Rungpore...
...
...
Purneah... ... ...
Number
vaccinated.
473
5,203
119
308
1,131
Number of suc-
cessful cases.
464
4,871
112
304
1,124
Percentage of
successful cases.
98.09
93.61
94.11
98.70
99.38
The recess work of the licensed agency amounted to 158 vaccinations. The causes
why work had to be carried on during the recess were the maintenance of the establishment
in the hills around Darjeeling and the occurrence of small-pox in Purneah (256 cases),
i