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ABSTRACT OF REPORTS BY CIVIL SURGEONS.
In addition ten extra men, paid at 2 annas for each successful vaccination, or in all
Rs. 6-14, were entertained at the close of the season at Hutwa, Gopalgunge, Bhori and
Chupra. At Chupra, Sewan and Revilgunge the vaccinations were confined within
municipal limits; and at Hutwa, Gopalgunge and Bhori they worked in the villages in their
neighbourhood. Attempts were made to thoroughly protect - one locality before proceeding
to another. The lymph was kept up by arm-to-arm vaccination as much as possible. When
this was impossible, selected lymph was preserved between two small pieces of glass for use.
The work performed by the above staff, as contrasted with that of the preceding year, is shown
in the subjoined table :—
In 1880-81...
In 1879-80...
Total number vaccinated.
4,186
5,521
Average number vaccinated by
each vaccinator.
149
197
PRIMARY VACCINATIONS.
Total.
4,098
54.48
Successful.
Under one year.
380
One year and
under six.
2,283
No data.
Total of all ages.
3,678
4,801
Re-vaccin-
ations.
Total.
88
73
Successful.
77
47
Percentages
of success-
ful cases.
Primary.
89.7
88.1
Re-vaccination.
87.5
64.4
RELIGION OF THE VACCINATED.
Number vaccinated.
Hindus.
2,778
Mahomedans.
1,142
Christians.
9
Other races.
257
Proportion per cent. to
total vaccinated.
Hindus.
66.4
Mahomedans.
27.3
Christians.
.21
Other races.
6.1
No data.
The number of vaccinations was smaller, but a larger staff was at work in 1879-80, viz.
28 vaccinators as against 25 this year. The success that attended the operations was unsatis-
factory for both years. Here also there exist no data by which to calculate the proportions of
infant and class vaccinations; but in Chupra and Revilgunge 1,807 births were registered, and
this number, irrespective of what might have been the number of births in the other areas, is
considerably in excess of the number of infants vaccinated. None of the villages were visited
by the Civil Surgeon, but he says that he took great trouble in inspecting the work of the
vaccinators in the Chupra Municipality, and was very much disheartened by the difficulties
put in their way by the people, who object to the operation, defer it to be performed on some
auspicious day, will not consent to lymph being taken from the arms of their children after
operation, and will not permit their children to go the shortest distance from their houses for
inspection. Finding it difficult to progress with vaccination in this municipality, he offered
to pay some of the inoculators at the rate of 2 annas for each successful vaccination. The
result was a failure, very few cases being shown. Inoculation is freely practised in the district,
and there was reason to believe that it was surreptitiously carried on in the Chupra, Revil-
gunge and Sewan towns. In the latter town one man was detected inoculating children, and
was prosecuted and fined. Seventy-nine deaths from small-pox, or at the rate of 1.70 per 1,000
of the population, were reported to have occurred in the Chupra Municipality; 6, or .44 per
1,000, in Revilgunge; and only 1, or .09 per 1,000, in Sewan. The mortality in Chupra was
confined to the months of December 1880, and January, February and' March 1881. At
Hutwa no deaths occurred, and no separate mortuary records are kept up in Gopalgunge
and Bhori.
41. Chumparun.—Three vaccinators were employed throughout the year, viz one each at
Motiharee, Bettiah and Chuttia Burharwa. The Motiharee man was paid Rs. 10 per mensem,
half from the dispensary and half from the municipal funds; at Bettiah the vaccinator received
Rs. 10 during the working season and Rs. 5 during the recess, found by the municipality;
and the Chuttiah Burharwa man was paid Rs. 5-8 from the dispensary fund. At Bettiah
and Motiharee the operations were confined almost to the municipalities and to the imme-
diately adjacent villages, and at Chuttia to people who were willing to submit to them. The
Magistrate was requested to direct the police to promote vaccination, but the request was
not complied with; so only those persons who came forward were operated on. The lymph
was primarily obtained from this office and afterwards the virus was kept up by arm to arm
vaccination when possible and allowed, and when not, from crusts and tubes. It is said
that the people dislike giving crusts or lymph, and often destroy the vesicle to prevent the
latter from being taken. Six village inoculators applied for and were supplied with lymph.
They reported 165 vaccinations, all successful, in different villages; but the vaccinator
who was deputed to inspect their work stated that he could not trace any of it, as they
came from Durbhunga and elsewhere, and had gone away. Their figures, therefore, are not
included in the returns. One vaccinator at Baguha, formerly entertained and paid from
the dispensary funds, but whose post was abolished in October last, worked on his own
account and reported 160 operations, of which 158 were successful. The Civil Surgeon
enquired into his work and found that he had operated successfully on ten Europeans, and
the Civil Hospital Assistant mentions that he had seen several cases, and the work was well