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ABSTRACT OF REPORTS BY CIVIL SURGEONS.
vaccination and by crusts. The particulars regarding the vaccinations performed are shown
in the subjoined table as compared with 1879-80:—
In 1880-81...
In 1870-80...
Total number vaccinated.
711
4,548
Average number vaccinated by
each vaccinator
711
2,274
PRIMARY VACCINATIONS.
Total.
710
4,485
Successful.
Under one year.
33
One year and
under six.
178
No data.
Total of all ages.
555
3,988
Re-vaccin-
ations.
Total.
1
63
Successful.
1
49
Percentages
of success-
ful cases.
Primary.
78.2
88.9
Re-vaccinated.
100.
77.8
RELIGION OF THE VACCINATED.
Number vaccinated.
Hindus.
292
Mahomedans.
416
Christians.
3
Other races.
...
Proportion per cent. to
total vaccinated.
Hindus.
41.1
Mahomedans.
58.6
Christians.
.28
Other races.
...
No data.
There was a very considerable reduction in the number of vaccinations performed, but
the last year's figures include the vaccinations performed at the Nasirabad, Muktagacha,
and Kishoreganj municipalities, where two vaccinators were at work. Besides, the Govern-
ment vaccinators vaccinated most of those who would either have sought vaccination at the
dispensaries, or who were easily accessible to the medical officers. The success that at-
tended the operations, which was bad last year, was worse this year. The figures that would
show the value of the infant and class vaccination are not available. The Civil Surgeon
visited two villages and saw 69 cases, of which 58 were found to be successful. He says
that he was unable to make more inspections owing to the amount of sickness in the sudder
station, especially among Europeans. The people, it is stated, do not court vaccination, but
they are not at the same time adverse to it. Inoculation is believed to be steadily declining,
as the old inoculators are learning to vaccinate. Five inoculators were this year trained by
the Government vaccinators. Two of them, who were trained in the sudder sub-division,
were found on examination to be competent to perform vaccinations. The Civil Surgeon
in his sanitary report mentions that of the only two cases of small-pox that came under
his notice in the sudder station one had walked all the way from Tangail, and that it
appeared he had been sent out of that sub-division by the local authorities with the view
of stamping out the disease.
27. Tipperah.—Two vaccinators were employed throughout the year—one at the Comillah
dispensary and the other at the sub-divisional dispensary at Brahmenberiah—at Rs. 10
per mensem, paid from the municipal funds. They worked principally in the towns of
Comillah and Brahmenberiah and in the villages in their neighbourhood Besides this
18 vaccinations were performed at the sudder dispensary, and 312 by an ex-inoculator during
January and February in the interior of the district under orders of the Civil Surgeon.
The lymph was originally received from this office in tubes. It proved very successful, and
after the first operations the virus was kept up by arm-to-arm vaccination. In the sub-
joined table is exhibited the work performed during the year as contrasted with the results
of the preceding year—
In 1880-81...
In 1879-80...
Total number vaccinated.
2,632
2,935
Average number vaccinated by
each vaccinator.
1,316
1,467
PRIMARY VACCINATIONS.
Total.
2,599
2,705
Successful.
Under one year.
194
One year and
under six.
1,357
No data.
Total of all ages.
2,421
2,546
Re-vaccin-
ations.
Total.
33
230
Successful.
16
126
Percentages
of success-
ful cases.
Primary.
93.2
94.1
Re-vaccination.
48.5
54.8
RELIGION OF THE VACCINATED.
Number vaccinated.
Hindus.
1,608
Mahomedans.
981
Christians.
11
Other races.
32
Proportion per cent. to
total vaccinated.
Hindus.
61.1
Mahomedans.
37.3
Christians.
.41
Other races.
1.21
No data.
There was a falling off in the number vaccinated, and no explanation has been furnished
accounting for the reduction. The success that attended the primary vaccinations is
satisfactory ; that attending the re-vaccinations a little nearer the truth than last year.
The number of births registered in the Comillah and Brahmenberiah municipalities was
880, or at the rate of 31.37 per 1,000 of population. Placing against this number the 194
infant vaccinations (which it should be remembered must include some who were vaccinated
at the sudder sub-divisional dispensary and by the ex-inoculator), the percentage of infants
vaccinated to number born comes to only 22.04. Of the Hindus 9.94 per cent. wore vac-
cinated, of the Mahomedans 8.12 per cent., and of the Christians 15.71. The Civil Surgeon