5
to the total number vaccinated was highest (37.80) in North Lushai, the total number
vaccinated there only came to 246, which, however, is a good beginning for such a new
and uncivilised country, and is therefore creditable to Surgeon-Captain Henry Bruce
Melville, the Civil Surgeon of that district.
TABLE No. 2.
Showing separately the vaccination work among the garden population performed by Government and
tea garden agencies during 1892-93.
District.
Cachar ... ...
Sylhet ... ...
Goálpára ... ...
Kámrúp ... ...
Darraing ... ...
Nowgong ... ...
Sibságar ... ...
Lakhimpur ...
Total ... ...
Men.
Primarily vaccinated.
262
685
...
...
8
...
...
114
l,069
Successfully vaccinated.
146
319
...
...
8
...
...
110
583
Women.
Primarily vaccinated.
236
677
...
2
5
2
...
98
1,020
Successfully vaccinated.
125
327
...
2
5
2
...
95
556
Children.
Primarily vaccinated.
2,198
3,581
...
158
76
304
997
1,141
8,452
Successfully vaccinated
2,001
2,752
...
143
51
273
976
1,043
7,239
Total vacci-
nation by
tea garden
agency.
Primarily vaccinated.
2,696
4,943
...
160
86
306
997
l,353
10,541
Successfully vaccinated.
2,272
3,398
...
145
64
275
976
1,248
8,378
Total vacci-
nation by
Government
agency.
Primarily vaccinated.
1,786
...
...
43
1,725
...
...
852
4,406
Successfully vaccinated.
1,708
...
...
42
1,702
...
...
773
4,225
Grand total.
Primarily vaccinated.
4,482
4,943
...
203
1,811
306
997
2,205
14,947
Successfully vaccinated.
3,980
3,398
...
187
1,766
275
976
2,021
12,603
Percentage of successful
cases.
88.79
68.74
...
92.11
915
89.87
98.00
91.66
84.32
Vaccinations on tea gardens.
12. A total of 14,947 persons, mostly children, were vaccinated on tea estates in
comparison with 11,219 in the previous year, showing an
increase of 3,728, or 33.23 per cent. I may mention here
that the corresponding figures came to 9,992 only in 1889-90, so that there has been an
increase of close on 5,000 vaccinations in tea gardens since that season. The result in the
past year was due chiefly to an increase of 2,416 vaccinations by Government agency, and,
in a minor but yet satisfactory degree, to an increase over the previous year of 1,312 by
garden agency. The total percentage of successful vaccinations was higher by 1.56 than
in the previous year. The percentage of successful vaccinations performed by Government
agency was much higher than by garden agency.
TABLE No. 3.
Number of deaths from small-pox in Assam from 1877 to 1892.
Year.
1877
...
...
...
...
1878
...
...
...
...
1879 ... ... ... ...
1880 ... ... ... ...
1881 ... ... ... ...
1882 ... ... ... ...
1883 ... ... ... ...
1884 ... ... ... ...
1885 ... ... ... ...
1886 ... ... ... ...
1887 ... ... ... ...
1888 ... ... ... ...
1889 ... ... ... ...
1890 ... ... ... ...
1891 ... ... ... ...
1892 ... ... ... ...
Number of
deaths.
1,260
1,014
1,418
2,239
3,129
3,195
6,162
4,781
1,980
564
1,162
2,059
2,245
1,401
2,361
1,452
Average yearly mortality
from small-pox in each
quinquennial period.
1,812
3,336
1,846
1,452
Remarks on the number of
deaths from small-pox in Assam
from 1877 to 1892, as regards their
connection with the successful vac-
cination of the people.
13. The above table is intended to show the increasing protection of the people against
small-pox. The well-known fact that small-pox mortality is
apt to vary from year to year should be taken into considera-
tion in reading it. Notwithstanding this, it seems that our
registered mortality from small-pox has decreased from an
average of 1,812 yearly in the quinquennial period 1877 to
1881 and of 3,336 in the corresponding period 1882 to 1886 to 1,452 in the past year;
and, as our registration has decidedly improved in the past year, and as even in the