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It will be seen that in most districts in each of the three years under
review, a very large proportion of the population was left unprotected from
small-pox, but the most noticeable feature of these diagrams is that small-pox
usually prevailed to a greater extent in the districts of those circles in which
the degree of protection was least, viz., in the Metropolitan, Behar, and Orissa
Circles—a fact which does not reflect credit on the vaccination administration
of those circles. In Behar there is some excuse for deficient work, as vaccin-
ation has only recently been introduced in that circle, some districts of which
have not yet been taken up by the Vaccination Department ; but the same reason
does not exist in the Metropolitan and Orissa Circles, especially in the Metro-
politan Circle, in which there is no excuse for the inadequate degree of protection
afforded to the people. The small number of vaccinations performed in the
province as a whole is attributed by the Superintendents of Vaccination to
various causes, principally to the difficulty experienced by licensed vaccinators
in realizing their fees from the people, and to paucity of subjects for operations.
The latter cause might have been operative in a few local areas, but cannot be
accepted as a valid excuse for deficient work in all those places which are back-
ward in this respect; for, at the rate of 40 per mille, the approximate correct
birth-rate of India, the total average number of children born during the three
years 1887—90 in the entire area brought under the operation of the Vaccin-
ation Department in Bengal numbered about 2,373,204, and deducting from
these the total average number of deaths among infants under one year
(238,244), the total average number available for vaccination each year was
2,134,960. But of these an average of 266,100, or 124.63 per mille (12.46 per
cent.) only, an extremely inadequate proportion, were so protected.
The following tables show in order of sequence the degree of protection
afforded to infants in each district of the province in each of the three years
1887-88, 1888-89, and 1889-90: —
1887-88.
DISTRICTS.
Darjeeling ...
Political States of
Chota Nagpore.
Lohardagga ...
Maldah ...
Calcutta ...
Backerganj ...
Hazaribagh ...
Rajshahye
...
Manbhum ...
Bogra ...
Purneah
...
Singbhum ...
24-Pergunnahs ...
Murshidabad ...
Sonthal Pergunnahs
Tipperah ...
Dinajpur ...
Howrah ...
Khulna ...
Midnapore
...
Pubna ...
Nuddea ...
Hughli and Seram-
pore.
Birbhum ...
Burdwan ...
Jessore ...
Dacca ...
Tributary States of
Orissa.
Bhagulpore ...
Rungpur ...
Noakhali ...
Population of areas
in which vaccin-
ations were per-
formed.
144,191
545,783
1,576,134
693,324
433,219
1,881,764
1,089,436
1,309,753
1,018,924
724,212
1,833,671
555,958
1,603,378
1,141,127
1,547,662
1,488,289
1,501,786
529,753
1,059,518
2,433,862
1,275,424
1,545,291
881,164
786,580
1,261,687
1,921,646
2,023,628
372,674
1,903,033
2,084,644
773,917
Estimated births at
40 per 1,000.
5,767
21,831
63,045
27,733
17,329
76,270
43,578
52,390
41,057
28,969
73,347
22,238
64,136
45,645
61,907
59,532
60,071
21,190
42,381
97,354
51,017
61,812
36,246
31,463
50,064
76,866
80,945
14,903
76,121
83,386
30,967
Mortality amongst
infants under one
year.
611
Not under
registration.
6,401
2,166
2,428
11,668
6,071
4,798
3,137
3,369
3,361
1,631
5,368
4,392
3,848
5,212
7,013
2,276
3,452
8,884
2,559
7,343
2,475
5,503
4,742
3,216
5,821
Not under
registration.
8,703
6,708
3,649
Surviving population
under one year
available for vac-
cination.
6,156
21,831
56,644
26,567
14,901
63,602
37,507
47,592
38,820
25,600
69,986
20,707
58,768
41,253
58,059
54,320
53,058
18,914
38,929
88,470
48,468
54,469
32,771
25,960
45,322
73,650
75,124
14,903
67,418
76,678
27,308
Number successfully
vaccinated.
4,175
8,003
19,612
8,339
4,200
16,881
7,978
9,084
6,696
4,046
10,809
3,156
8,911
6,255
7,946
7,426
6,860
2,261
4,334
9,466
5,136
5,321
3,036
2,264
3,591
4,986
5,047
978
3,978
4,496
1,528
Proportion of infants
successfully vaccin-
ated per 1,000 of
surviving popula-
tion shown in co-
lumn 5.
809.73
366.58
316.23
326,16
281.86
265.41
212.70
190.87
172.48
158.04
154.44
152.41
151.63
151.67
136.86
136.70
129.29
119.54
111.33
106.99
105.98
97.68
92.64
87.21
79.23
67.69
67.18
65.62
59.00
58.63
55.95