( 6 )
Protection afforded to infants.
6. The following table shows in order of sequence the degree of protec-
tion afforded to infants in the several districts of
this Province, as compared with the preceding year,
calculated as usual on an estimated birth-rate of 40 per mille:—
Degree of protection afforded to infants.
DISTRICTS.
1
Malda ...
Darjeeling ...
Lohardaga ...
Bhagalpur ...
Palamau ...
Angul and Khondmals
Political States ...
Sonthal Parganas ...
Jalpaiguri ...
Jessore ...
Dacca ...
Purnea ...
Hazaribagh ...
Rajshahi ...
Saran ...
Manbhum ...
Faridpur ...
Nadia ...
Balasore ...
Monghyr ...
Dinajpur ...
Singhbhum ...
Chittagong Hill Tracts
Noakhali ...
Backergunge ...
Midnapore ...
Bogra ...
Pabna ...
Howrah
...
Tippera ...
24-Parganas ...
Murshidabad ...
Mymensingh ...
Khulna ...
Rangpur ...
Cuttack ...
Burdwan ...
Champaran ...
Muzaffarpur ...
Hooghly ...
Darbhanga
...
Chittagong
...
Birbhum ...
Bankura ...
Tributary
States of
Orissa.
Gaya
...
Shahabad ...
Puri ...
Patna ...
Total of rural areas ...
Calcutta ...
Do. (Animal Vaccine
Depôt.)
Total of Calcutta and
Depôt.
Mufassal municipalities,
dispensaries, &c.
GRAND TOTAL. ...
Population among
which vaccinations
were performed.
2
796,923
205,647
1,101,469
1,958,445
591,577
170,058
883,359
1,733,811
671,054
1,866,572
2,295,566
1,921,637
1,136,866
1,406,868
2,380,455
1,170,094
1,798,997
1,537,407
973,850
1,960,855
1,470,366
538,193
107,286
1,004,214
2,117,312
2,541,621
756,114
1,321,470
630,319
1,750,249
1,543,699
1,170,930
3,378,395
1,155,051
2,051,248
1,860,846
1,310,371
1,823,577
2,620,970
910,503
2,699,963
1,261,751
790,773
1,019,273
364,776
2,036,565
1,934,380
916,204
1,502,655
70,150,584
681,560
681,560
2,762,952
73,595,096
Estimated births at
40 per 1,000 of popu-
lation.
3
31,877
8,226
44,059
78,338
23,663
6,802
35,334
69,352
26,842
74,663
91,823
76,865
45,475
56,275
95,218
46,804
71,960
61,496
38,954
78,434
58,814
21,528
4,291
40,169
84,692
101,665
30,245
52,859
25,213
70,010
61,748
46,837
135,136
46,202
82,050
74,434
52,415
72,943
104,839
36,420
107,998
50,470
31,631
40,771
54,591
81,462
77,375
36,648
10,106
2,806,023
27,262
Mortality
among
infants under one
year.
4
5,007
1,479
9,589
11,472
4,916
1,469*
7,632*
9,796
5,930
9,933
14,589
13,155
9,945
7,476
13,797
6,734
11,910
8,333
30,309
14,583
11,071
2,380
926*
7,609
18,197
18,049
4,399
5,349
4,282
11,007
6,961
8,569
19,965
7,845
13,501
18,746
9,294
10,703
16,010
5,363
13,894
9,436
6,872
6,163
11,791*
15,698
15,079
8,724
12,435
478,372
4,418
Surviving population
under one year
available for vac¬
cination.
5
26,870
6,747
34,470
66,866
18,747
5,333
27,702
59,556
20,912
64,730
77,234
63,710
35,530
48,799
81,421
40,070
60,050
53,163
28,645
63,851
47,744
19,148
3,365
32,560
66,495
83,616
25,846
47,510
20,931
59,003
54,787
38,268
115,171
38,357
68,549
55,688
43,121
62,240
88,829
31,059
94,104
41,034
24,759
34,608
42,800
65,764
62,296
27,924
47,671
2,327,651
22,844
Not under registration.
27,262
110,518
2,943,803
4,418
17,917
500,707
22,844
92,601
2,443,096
Number successfully
vaccinated.
6
26,434
6,408
23,994
34,594
8,718
2,339
11,502
22,939
7,531
20,295
23,776
17,921
8,942
11,475
18,944
8,834
12,688
11,106
5,616
12,095
9,003
3,555
622
5,849
11,920
13,658
4,119
7,310
3,195
8,985
8,165
5,655
16,055
5,292
8,972
6,543
4,907
6,918
9,438
3,198
9,604
3,879
2,308
3,208
3,603
4,920
4,505
1,927
2,593
476,058
3,334
64
3,398
29,159
508,615
Proportion of persons
successfully vaccin-
ated per 1,000 of
population, as shown
in column 5.
7
983.77
949.75
696.08
517.36
465.03
438.59
415.20
385.16
360.12
313.53
307.84
281.29
251.67
235.14
232.66
220.46
211.29
208.90
196.05
189.42
188.56
185.65
184.84
179.63
179.29
163.34
159.36
153.86
152.69
152.28
149.03
147.77
139.40
137.96
130.88
117.47
113.79
111.15
106.26
102.97
102.95
94.53
93.21
92.69
84.18
74.81
72.31
69.08
54.39
204.52
145.94
2.80
148.74
314.88
208.18
Proportion of persons
successfully vaccin-
ated per 1,000 of po-
pulation in 1896-97.
8
819.82
876.89
781.20
384.97
494.34
592.97
497.85
448.26
341.62
201.94
389.82
288.35
254.48
257.94
201.62
307.99
176.90
151.14
223.12
176.19
360.32
198.75
220.42
149.79
149.32
141.77
162.48
148.04
106.48
144.71
132.90
154.07
149.22
91.03
129.23
43.57
113.44
130.58
104.98
64.39
111.17
192.33
83.21
123.93
62.03
37.49
73.16
84.67
54.23
200.85
179.67
4.14
183.81
309.89
204.84
* Registration of births and deaths is not carried on in these places. The number of deaths amongst infants in them has been calculated at the
rate of infantile mortality obtaining in this Province during 1897, viz., 216.15 per mille.