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well-to-do classes, viz. Brahmans, Kayasths, Baniyas, and in some places village
mandals.
Complaints are from time to time made to this office by the executive
officers of the Vaccination Department of the great difficulty experienced
by licensed vaccinators in realising their fees from the persons vaccinated.
The fee is only two annas an operation, which it would not be worth the vacci-
nator's while to sue for in a civil court on account of the expense of instituting
a suit. It has been suggested that the police or the village punchayat should
help the vaccinators in realising their fees, but both these agencies are, in my
opinion, open to objection.
Extension of vaccination.
12. During the year under report vaccination was introduced for the first
time into the district of Chittagong, and up to the
close of the year 8 out of the 13 thanas of that
district had been protected by the Government staff of vaccinators. In Behar
vaccination was extended to the 4 remaining thanas of Gya. In 8 out of the 11
thanas of Sarun and 7 out of the 9 thanas of Chumparun vaccination operations
were performed for the first time to suppress local outbreaks of small-pox. None
of the thanas of these two districts have as yet been taken up thoroughly for
vaccination purposes. In 6 out of the 9 thanas of the Balasore district vacci-
nation was introduced for the first time by the Government staff.
The licensed system of vaccination was extended to the 9 remaining thanas
of Backergunge and to 5 thanas of Gya and the 3 remaining thanas of Puri.
The map facing this page shows at a glance the progress or extent to
which vaccination has been introduced in Bengal, viz., the areas in which
Act IV (B.C.) of 1865, prohibiting the practice of inoculation, is in force and
the areas to which it has not yet been extended; the municipalities and thanas
of rural areas in which the Compulsory Vaccination Act V (B.C.) of 1880 is
in force; and the present boundaries of the vaccination circles,
13. The following table shows the result of vaccination on the prevalence
of small-pox during the last seven years:—
Areas under vaccination
...
...
...
„ not under vaccination ... ... ...
Number of areas which were under
vaccination in—
1882-83.
399
180
1883-84.
430
149
1884-85.
463
116
1885-86.
472
107
1886-87.
488
91
1887-83.
507
72
1888-89.
542
35
Death-rate from small-pox per mille of
population.
1882-83.
.13
.20
1883-84.
.12
.25
1884-85.
.15
.55
1885-86.
.06
.26
1886-87.
.02
.16
1887-88.
.04
.16
1888-89.
.09
.09
Degree of supervision exercised
by Inspecting Officers.
14. The following statement shows the degree of supervision exercised,
during the year under report, by the Superintend-
ents, Deputy Superintendents, and other Inspecting
Officers of the Vaccination Department, such as
Inspectors, Native Superintendents, &c., over the work of the vaccinators. The
statement has been compiled from the annual reports of the Superintendents:—
1
Circles.
Calcutta ... ...
Metropolitan
Circles ... ...
Darjeeling Circle
2
Superintendents.
W. J. Simpson ...
......
......
K. P. Gupta
......
......
......
......
......
......
L.A.Waddell ...
......
......
......
3
Deputy Superintendents and
other Inspecting Officers,
such as Inspectors, Native
Superintendents, Inspecting
Vaccinators, and Head
Vaccinators.
......
R. C. Mitter
...
...
...
A. L. Roy
...
...
...
......
U. C. Ghose
... 1st M. C.
P. N. Mitter
... 2nd „
H. C. Sen
... 3rd „
A. T. Law
... 4th „
B. C. Sen
... Suburbs of
Calcutta.
42 Inspectors
...
...
...
......
Tajamul Hossein
...
...
R. C. Mazumdar ... ... ...
13 other inspecting officers ...
4
Number
of villages
in his juris-
diction.
The whole
town.
51,157
13,017
9,926
7,832
20,284
98
51,157
35,600
14,776
15,634
35,600
5
Total
number of
operations
performed
in his juris-
diction.
11,237
428,441
145,706
105,769
74,556
92,014
10,396
428,441
289,738
170,911
83,145
289,738
6
Number
of villages
visited.
The whole
town.
605
658
728
386
756
98
10,851
626
777
235
5,954
7
Number
of cases
inspected.
130
4,934
2,440
27,689
19,677
26,811
14,197
27,205
2,401
348,459
11,403
19,575
9,140
161,944
8
Proportion
per cent.
of cases in-
spected to
total num-
ber of vac-
cinations
performed
in his juris-
diction.
1.15
43.90
21.71
6.46
13.50
25.34
19.04
29.56
23.09
81.09
3.93
11.45
10.99
55.89