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ABSTRACT OF REPORTS BY CIVIL SURGEONS.
Commissioners having been asked to render assistance in promoting the operations. The
lymph was supplied by the Inspector of the Metropolitan Vaccination Circles at Jaipur.
It was kept up by arm-to-arm vaccination, but its quality appeared to have deteriorated,
as the vesicles were imperfect in several cases, and pustules, eruptions, and abscesses, and
sores with high fever, and in some cases diarrhœa, were met with in sickly children. The
amount of work done will be seen from the following table as compared with 1879-80 :—
In 1880-81 ...
In 1879-80 ...
Total number vaccinated.
1,401
1,588
Average number vaccinated by
each vaccinator.
702
794
PRIMARY VACCINATIONS
Total.
1,382
1,487
Successful.
Under one year.
139
One year and
under six
877
No data.
Total of all ages.
1,359
1,444
Re-vaccin-
ations.
Total.
22
101
Successful.
17
76
Percentages
of success-
ful case.
Primary.
98.3
97.1
Re-vaccination.
77.2
74.3
RELIGION OF THE VACCINATION
Number vaccinated.
Hindus.
1,388
Mahomedans.
15
Christians.
1
Other races.
..
Proportion per cent. to
total vaccinated.
Hindus.
98.9
Muhomedans.
10
Christians.
.07
Other races.
...
No data.
Excepting that a somewhat smaller number were operated on, the results are
satisfactory. The rate of success in re-vaccinations is suspicious. The births registered
in the above-named towns in 1880-81 amounted to Rs. 1,310. or at the rate of 37.13
per 1,000 of population. The infant vaccinations, compared with the births, indicate that
only 10.61 per cent. of the number born were vaccinated.
The vaccination figures
relating to religion show that .41 per cent. of the Hindu, 1.13 per cent of the Mahomedan,
and 1.51 of the Christian populations had been vaccinated. The Civil Surgeon examined
157 cases of vaccination in six villages, against 109 in the previous year, and found
that 149, or 95.1 per cent., had been successfully operated on. The Civil Hospital
Assistant saw 712 cases in 10 villages, of which 699, or 98.2 per cent., were successful. The
operations during the year appear to the Civil Surgeon to have been properly carried on,
and the results carefully noted. The people in both municipalities are opposed to vaccin-
ation, and in ordinary seasons, when small-pox does not prevail severely, they exhibit
an indifference to it. Inoculators are trained to vaccination by the Vaccination Department,
so the Civil Surgeon made no attempt to do so. No deaths from small-pox were reported
from these municipalities in 1880-81.
3. Beerbhoom.—An ex-inoculator was attached to the Soori dispensary, who worked
within the municipality and in its neighbourhood from January to March 1881. The amount
of work performed by him is shown in the subjoined table as compared with 1879-80:—
In 1880-81 ...
In 1879-80 ...
Total number vaccinated.
655
107
Average number vaccinated by each
vaccinator.
655
107
PRIMARY VACCINATIONS
Total.
576
107
Successful.
Under one year.
26
One year and under
six.
274
No data.
Total of all ages.
518
91
Re-vaccin-
ations.
Total.
79
...
Successful.
20
...
Percentages
of success-
ful cases.
Primary.
89.9
85.1
Re-vaccination.
25.3
...
RELIGION OF THE VACCINATED.
Number vaccinated.
Hindus.
623
...
Mahomedans.
28
Christians.
4
Other races.
...
Proportion per cent. to
total vaccinated.
Hindus.
95.1
Mahomedans.
4.2
Christians.
.61
Other races.
..
No data.
The figures show great progress in the number vaccinated, but the quality of the work,
as indicated by the percentage of success attained, although better than in the last year,
is not satisfactory. Births are not registered in the Soori Municipality, but the estimated
births at 30 per 1,000 of population would amount to 270; and calculated on this figure,
the percentage of infants vaccinated to number born comes to only 9 62. Of the Hindu
population 9.23 per cent. were vaccinated, of the Mahomedan 1.36 per cent., and of the
Christian 2.13 per cent. The Civil Surgeon reports that the people in the town were very
reluctant to take to vaccination in time, and the Magistrate says that the Marwaries and the
bazar people principally object to and retard its progress. No assistance is reported to have
been rendered by the civil authorities. For these reasons the work proceeded very tardily at
first, and the lymph died out. This went on till the 3rd of February, when a case of small-
pox was imported into the town from Berhampore, and then applications for vaccination
became at once so numerous that the Civil Surgeon had to utilize the men of the Metro-
politan Circle of Vaccination to meet the demand. The people of Kuddea, a village a