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ABSTRACT OF REPORTS BY CIVIL SURGEONS.
deceiving the Civil Surgeon. The people in the town have come to appreciate vaccination,
and are now more inclined than before to submit to the operations, and the Civil Surgeon
hopes for better success next year. But inoculation is prevalent throughout the district,
the town excepted. An outbreak of small-pox occurred in the town in December, and had
not subsided up to the end of the year in March. The disease appeared first in the begin-
ning of December, in the person of a man who came from Cuttack for employment and put
up at Baug Brindabun, where the coblers reside. The eruptions appeared upon him three
days after his arrival, but he recovered and returned to his home. Since then cases of the
disease were met with all about the coblers' quarters, and it lasted up to the commence-
ment of February, when it ceased here, but spread to other parts of the town, where it
prevailed to a more or less extent. About 100 persons were attacked, of whom 71 died up
to the end of March. Not a single death was reported from the commencement of the
year in April 1880 up to November. The death-rate stood at 4.03 per 1,000 of population.
Every endeavour was made to suppress the outbreak by pushing on vaccination and advising
the people to burn sulphur in their houses, to destroy their infected clothes, and to keep
themselves as clean as possible. Assistant Surgeon Kamika Nath Acharjee, in charge of the
civil station, who submitted this report, says:—" From an investigation of the previous
history of the patients suffering from severe types of the disease, it appeared that most
of them were inoculated. Those who got the disease after vaccination, suffered from less
prostration, and had on their bodies discrete pustules."
CHOTA NAGPORE DIVISION.
49. Hazareebagh.—Vaccinations were performed at the Hazareebagh and Burhee dis-
pensaries by the Civil Hospital Assistants attached to those dispensaries, and at the Chattra
Municipality by a vaccinator, previously an inoculator, employed for only two months,
January and February, at Rs. 8, paid from municipal funds
At the Hazareebagh dispen-
sary only two persons were vaccinated, at Burhee 10, and at Chattra 177 within municipal
limits only. The general vaccinations of the district were conducted by the Ranchi vaccin-
ation circle. The details of the work done during the year as compared with 1879-80 are
shown in the following table :—
In 1880-81 ...
In 1879-80 ...
Total number vaccinated.
189
111
Average number vaccinated by
each vaccinator.
63
65
PRIMARY VACCINATIONS.
3
188
110
Successful.
Under one year.
23
One year and un-
der six.
165
No. data.
Total of all ages.
188
103
Re- vaccin-
ations.
Total.
1
1
Successful.
1
1
Percentnges
of success-
ful cases.
Primary.
100.0
93.6
Re-vaccination.
100.0
100.0
RELIGION OF THE VACCINATED.
Number vaccinated.
Hindus.
153
Mahomedans.
36
Christians.
...
Other races.
...
Proportion per cent. to
total vaccinated.
Hindus.
80.9
Mahomedans.
19.0
Christians.
...
Other races.
...
No data.
There was some increase in the work performed, and the quality of the operations, as
stated, is very satisfactory. Births are not registered at the abovenamed places, but the
estimated births amount to 596, and calculated on this number the proportion of infants
vaccinated to number born comes to only 3.85 per cent. Of the Hindu population 1.11 per
cent. were vaccinated, and of the Mahomedan population .64 per cent. The whole of the 177
vaccinations at the Chattra Municipality were said to have been seen by the Civil Hospital
Assistant and found to be successful. It is stated that vaccination is now appreciated
by the people generally in the abovenamed places, except that at Hazareebagh some of
the lower classes of Hindus object to it. No deaths from small-pox were reported to have
occurred in the Hazareebagh town.
50. Lohardugga.—There are no vaccinators attached to the towns or dispensaries in this
district. The whole of the operations are carried on by the Ranchi vaccination circle, and
the results recorded in the returns of that department. At the Ranchi town 82 deaths
from small-pox occurred, being in the proportion of 6.78 per 1,000 of population; and
this at the head-quarters of a vaccination circle.
51. Singbhoom.—The remarks relating to vaccination in Lohardugga apply to this
district also.
52. Manbhoom.—The Civil Hospital Assistant performed 15 vaccinations at the dispensary
in the Purulia town, all of which were ascertained by him to be successful. The subjects
consisted of children brought to the dispensary by their parents, and a few warders of the
jail who had not been inoculated, or had had small-pox. The first operation was performed
with lymph from ivory points obtained from the Deputy Superintendent of the Ranchi