REPORT ON VACCINATION IN ASSAM.
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TABLE NO. III.—(Concluded.)
Stations.
Shillong
Jowai
Tura ............................
Dhubri ....................
Gauháti ......................
Barpta ....................
Nowgong ..................
Tezpur .....................
Mangaldai
Sibságar .................
Jorhát Golághát
Kohima
Dibrugarh ....................
North Lakhimpur ............
Sylhet ....................
Habiganj .................
Sunámaganj .............
Karimaganj ...............
Maulavi Bázár ..................
Silchar
Total ..............
Vaccinations performed by each class of operators.—(Concluded )
Local Fond vaccinators.
Number of operators.
..
..
.. 2
..
.. 2
1
.. .. 1
..
.. 2
1
.. 1
2
5
3
..
20
Primary.
....
....
.... 1,564
....
.... 758
861
....
.... 657
....
.... 985
589
.... 337
1,317
4,773
3,063
....
14,904
Successful.
....
....
.... 1,443
....
.... 699
772
....
.... 528
....
.... 769
460
.... 293
1,144
4,514
2,906
....
13,528
Re-vaccination.
..
..
..
..
..
.. ..
..
.. ..
..
..
..
116
..
..
.. 2
151
46
..
315
Successful.
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
.. 46
.. ..
.. 2
116
46
..
210
Ex-inoculators.
Number of operators.
..
.. 1
9
23
12
..
..
.. 2
1
..
..
..
.. 1
2
..
.. ..
..
51
Primary.
....
.... 233
6,319
4,059
1,314
....
....
.... 258
65
....
....
....
.... 37
784
....
....
....
....
13,069
Successful.
....
.... 192
5,830
3,883
1,314
....
.... 254
57
....
....
....
.... 37
705
....
....
....
....
12,272
Re-vaccination.
..
..
..
.. 45
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
45
Successful.
..
..
..
.. 37
..
.. ..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
.. ..
..
.. ..
37
Total.
Number of operators.
5
1
8
24
32
13
7
5
3
6
4
4
4
7
4
16
3
5
7
4
8
170
Primary.
1,827
34
7,263
14,474
7,283
1,435
2,983
4,272
922
1,504
1,570
519
473
3,708
1,454
12,111
1,121
1,495
5,124
3,142
5,073
77,787
Successful.
1,518
26
6,938
13,094
6,866
1,430
2,610
4,015
803
1,443
1,266
412
459
2,905
1,199
11,978
998
1,288
4,831
2,973
3,926
71,068
Re-vaccination.
..
..
.. 3
68
2
..
..
..
.. 13
..
.. 217
19
32
.. 2
164
50
..
570
Successful.
..
..
.. 3
59
..
..
..
..
.. 5
..
.. 147
11
19
.. 2
125
50
..
421
Results by each class.
Civil Surgeons.
18. In the above table is exhibited the share of vaccination which during the
season has fallen to the lot of each class of operators.
Thirteen Civil Surgeons, including Dr. Cran, performed
2,685 primary operations against 2,309 last year. The average is not a good one; but
it would have been very much less but for 993 operations by Dr. H. H. Whitwell at
Dibrugarh, and 892 by Dr. Campbell at Tezpur. Such totals as 91 at Dhubri, 45
Gauháti, 24 Sibságar, 79 Sylhet, 110 Cachar, and 9 Kohima cannot be cited as good
examples to subordinates.
Hospital-Assistants.
19. There have been no particular instances of zeal on the part of Hospital-
Assistants. The average is considerably under 100
each. At Shillong, Jowai, Gauháti, Sibságar, Golághát,
Kohima, Dibrugarh, Sunámganj, and Karimganj, the averages were below 50 each.
Vaccinators.
20. Vaccinators are divided into three classes, according as they receive
pay from Government, from municipalities, or from
Local Funds. In the current year, their numbers were
increased from 59 to 71. The vaccinators paid by Government were increased from 35
to 45, and they totalled 42,252 operations, being an average of 939 per individual. The
average of last season was 778. As in 1882-83, the highest average was attained in
Cachar (1,445 each), Sylhet (1,110 each), Tezpur (1,253), Dhubri (1,170), and Tura
(1,150). It is highly satisfactory to find that in five districts the standard of 1,000
operations single-handed, which is so generally attained in other parts of India, has
now been reached in Assam.
Other classes.
Ex-inoculators not yet dismissed in Goál-
pára and Gauháti.
21. It is not necessary to allude further to the operators in detail. The com-
pounders at Kohima and Karimganj appear to do the most
of the work. The six municipal vaccinators have again "a
miserable average" of 247 cases for the season, and give the smallest return for their
pay of any class. The local vaccinators have done fairly well, having an average of
nearly 750 each for 20 of them. The ex-inoculators are dealt with elsewhere. Dr.
Clarke's remarks in the body of the report (paragraph 9,
page 5) last year, have seemingly not been read by the Civil
Surgeons concerned, nor the Chief Commissioner's orders passed on the report
been obeyed. It cannot be said these men are under efficient control or direct
supervision. Their work, without it, is properly described as " utterly worthless in
itself," and as tending more than anything else " to injure the cause of vaccination
when spread by incompetent agency and without proper verification of results"
(Chief Commissioner's Resolution, Vaccination Report, 1881-82).