( 6 )
and had such encouragement that the Hospital-Assistant of the dispensary was sent to
attend the school in Calcutta, and he returned with instruction and the appliances for
buffaloes as the vaccinifers. But no success has followed the use of such lymph in
Assam; and it ended by ordinary lymph being obtained in tubes from Calcutta and Dacca.
A fair amount of success has attended the introduction. Several Nága children were
shown to me, and the parents were rather proud of the distinction. A vaccinator has
been sanctioned for next season, and a share of English lymph will also be sent to
Manipur. Hospital-Assistant Lutchman Prasad deserves credit for his energy.
TABLE No. 7.
District.
Goálpára.....................
Kámrúp .....................
Nowgong ..................
Darrang ........................
Cachar ........................
Class of persons examined.
Schoolboys .....................
Dispensary patients ...............
Total .........
Schoolboys .....................
Ditto ........................
Dispensary patients ...............
Jail prisoners ........................
Total .........
Schoolboys ...........................
Dispensary patients ...............
Town people ........................
Mufassil „ ...........................
Total ......
School boys ...........................
Ditto ..............................
Dispensary patients ...............
Total .........
Grand Total .........
Number examined.
147
5,387
5,534
26
21
616
420
1,057
1,454
200
434
348
2,436
2,110
447
26
473
11,636
Vaccinated.
108
818
926
11
....
93
46
139
933
35
138
136
1,242
545
83
16
99
2,962
Inoculated.
20
3,473
3,493
7
4
169
296
469
133
105
168
160
566
1,068
283
2
285
5,888
Had small-pox.
4
610
614
3
4
333
64
401
219
53
88
29
389
256
49
3
52
1,715
Unprotected.
15
486
501
5
13
21
14
48
169
7
40
23
239
241
32
5
37
1,071
Percentage of
Vaccinated.
13.60
15.19
16.74
42.31
....
15.09
10.95
13.15
64.17
17.50
31.79
39.08
50.99
25.83
18.57
61.54
20.93
25.45
Inoculated.
73.48
64.47
63.12
26.92
19. 05 27.43 70.48
44.37
9.15
52.50
38.71
45.97
23.23
50.62
63.31
7.69
60.26
50.61
Had small-pox.
2.72
11.32
11.09
11.54
18.05
54.08
15.24
37.94
15.06
26.50
20.28
8.34
15.97
12.13
10.96
11.54
10.99
14.73
Unprotected.
10.20
9.02
9.05
19.23
61.90
3.40
3.33
4.54
11.62
3.50
9.22
6.61
9.81
11.42
7.16
19.28
7.82
9.21
Proportion of protected among certain
classes examined.
20. The examination of certain classes of the general population for the purpose of
ascertaining to what extent protection against small-pox
exists among them has been prosecuted by some of the
Civil Surgeons during the past year, and the results are collected in the preceding table.
In Goálpára, 5,387 dispensary patients were examined and 147 schoolboys. The result
shows to what a wide extent inoculation is the custom of the district, no less than
63.12 per cent. being protected in that way. In Kámrúp, among a small group of school-
boys the proportion of vaccinated was greatest, while the entirely unprotected were
greater than usual. In Darrang, those vaccinated among all classes show an excess, being
nearly 51 per cent. on a good average collection of 2,436. In Sylhet and Cachar, the
numbers examined are in small proportion to the population, and the figures are not
instructive. Taking the total of 11,636, the proportion of 25.45 per cent. of vaccinated
approaches closely to the general proportion quoted in paragraph 14; the inoculated are
nearly double of the vaccinated; the small-pox survivors are 14.73 per cent ; and those
unprotected in any way 9.21 per cent.
District reports.
21. The Civil Surgeons of districts have made no change in the form of their
annual reports. It is not understood that these were
included in the Government Resolution of the 15th July
1887. The returns were all received with reasonable punctuality except that from
Sylhet, which was overdue from a long delay in the statistics of Habiganj. The final
statistics and report from Sylhet were not received here until the 9th July, so that the
Provincial report has been prepared within one week of the total figures being available.
Government of India Resolution.
22. The Government of India Resolution on the Assam Vaccination Report for
the season 1886-87, No, 337, Home Department, Sanitary,
dated Simla, the 2nd November 1887, was received in this