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ABSTRACT OF REPORTS BY CIVIL SURGEONS.
vaccinations in the town of Monghyr, and found 338 to be successful. There is no general
desire among the people for vaccination. Only the poorer classes are said to appreciate
it. Inoculation is still carried on all over the district, and the Civil Surgeon is of opinion
that the difficulty experienced by the large body of ex-inoculators (who worked previously
under the Civil Surgeon) in getting licenses from the Superintendent of Vaccination has
led to some increase in inoculation. Eleven deaths from small-pox, or at the rate of .18
per 1,000 of population, were stated to have occurred in the Monghyr town, and none in
the Jamalpore town.
43. Bhagulpore.—One vaccinator was employed by the Bhagulpore Municipality
throughout the year. He received from the municipal funds Rs. 10 per mensem during the
working season, from the 15th October 1880 to the 15th March 1881, and Rs. 6 during the
recess. Vaccinations, 109 in number, were also performed at the Muhdehpurah and Soopole
dispensaries by the Civil Hospital Assistants during February and March. At the
municipality one mohulla at a time was taken up. The operations were started with lymph
obtained from Calcutta, and the virus was maintained by arm-to-arm vaccination, and by
collecting it in tubes. The total work of the year is shown in the subjoined table compared
with that of the preceding year :—
In 1880-81...
In 1879-80...
Total number vaccinated.
448
207
Average number vaccinated by
each vaccinator.
448
207
PRIMARY VACCINATIONS.
Total.
423
192
Successful.
Under one year.
41
One year and
under six.
305
No data.
Total of all ages.
423
135
Re-vaccin-
ations.
Total.
25
15
Successful.
16
8
Percentages
of success-
ful cases.
Primary.
100.0
70.3
Re-vaccination.
64.0
53.3
RELIGION OF THE VACCINATED.
Number vaccinated.
Hindus.
334
Muhomedans.
69
Christians.
44
Other races.
1
Proportion per cent. to
total vaccinated.
Hindus.
74.56
Mahomedans.
15.40
Christians.
9.81
Other races.
.22
No data.
There was a sensible advance in vaccination, and the quality of the work was much
better and very satisfactory if truly recorded. The infant vaccinations, calculated on the
1,241 births that were registered in the Bhagulpore town, show the proportion of only
3.30 per cent. of infants vaccinated to number born. The proportion of the Hindu
population operated on amounts to .65 per cent., of the Mahomedan population to .37 per
cent., of the Christian to 12.86 per cent., and of the other races to .48 per cent. As the
present Civil Surgeon took charge in February, when the season was very nearly over, he
had not the opportunity of making more than one inspection in the town, at which he found
21 persons successfully vaccinated. The former Civil Surgeon left no record of inspections
made by him. Dr. Murray says that vaccination is making decided progress in the town, the
people showing little or no opposition to it. In the district they are more distrustful and
hostile, and here inoculation prevails very generally, recruits for the police and warder
services and emigrants having been found by him bearing inoculation marks almost to a
man.
An inoculator was prosecuted and convicted during the year. The number of
deaths from small-pox recorded in the Bhagulpore town was 13, or at the rate .18 per 1,000
of population.
44. Purneah.—There was one vaccinator employed by the Purneah municipality
throughout the year on Rs. 10 per mensem. He vaccinated those who were willing to submit
to the operations, and worked in places where the people, such as the Dhangers, are not
prejudiced against vaccination. The lymph was obtained from Darjeeling, and was propagated
by crusts, not by arm-to-arm vaccination, which is objected to. The work of the year, con-
trasted with that of the preceding year, is shown in the following table:—
In 1880-81...
In 1879-80...
Total number vaccinated.
112
252
Average number vaccinated by
each vaccinator.
112
252
PRIMARY VACCINATIONS.
Total.
107
218
Successful
Under one year.
6
One year an
under six.
3
No data.
Total of all ages.
14
120
Re-vaccin-
ations.
Total
5
34
Successful.
...
17
Percentages
of success-
ful cases.
Primary.
13.1
55.0
Re-vaccination.
...
50.0
RELIGION OF THE VACCINATED.
Number vaccinated.
Hindus.
36
Mahomedans.
14
Christians.
13
Other races.
49
Proportion per cent. to
total vaccinated.
Hindus.
32.1
Mahomedans.
12.5
Christians.
11.6
Other races.
43.8
No data.
The results of this year are much below those of the preceding year, and very unsatis-
factory. The following causes are submitted by the Civil Surgeon as accounting for the
falling off:—the objection to the arm-to-arm process, the want of assiduity on the part of