( 6 )
TABLE No. 7.
Showing the relation between the state of protection by vaccination enjoyed by the people and the prevalence
of small-pox during the previous five years, i.e., the average for the previous five years both for
protection and deaths from small-pox (vide columns 17 to 20 of Annual Statement No I. appended to
this report).
1
District.
Darrang ....................
Lakhimpur ....................
Sibságar ....................
Goálpára ....................
Nowgong ..................
Cachar ........................
Kámrúp ....................
Sylhet ........................
2
Position in scale
of protection, No. 1
best, and No. 8
worst protected
district.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
3
Position in scale
of small-pox death-
rate, No. 1 lowest
and No. 8 highest
death-rate.
8
3
2
4
1
7
5
6
4
Remarks.
Relation between the state of protection
enjoyed by the people and the death-rate
from small-pox for the previous five years
9. The preceding table corresponds with Table No.7, paragraph 24 of last year's
Vaccination Report for this Province, and also with the table
given in paragraph 40 of the Report on Vaccination for the
Central Provinces for the year 1885-86, according to the
orders of the Chief Commissioner of Assam in paragraph 12 of his Resolution on the
Sanitary Report for 1887. It is based on all the successful vaccinations of the previous five
years. The figures in the columns agree in a. greater degree than those in the correspond-
ing table at page 7 of last year's report, and Goálpára gives corresponding figures in
columns 2 and 3. Notwithstanding this improvement, the remarks in paragraph 25
of last year's report apply generally here also
Annual Statement No. I., explanation of
10. The Annual Statement No. I. appended to this report exhibits the work of
the vaccination staff, viz., of the Native Inspectors of
Vaccination, of the Provincial, Local Board, municipal, and
licensed vaccinators and apprentices, as well as the work done on tea-gardens by garden
agency. During the year under report a grand total of 130,238 operations were performed
by the whole vaccination staff, of which 74,112 were males and 56,126 were females, as com-
pared with a grand total of 123,880 operations in the previous year. One hundred and
twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and sixteen were primary operations, of which 1,20,206,
or 92.59 per cent., were successful, and 422 were re-vaccinations, of which 351, or 83.17 per
cent., were successful
Out of a total of 120,206 successful vaccinations, 15,239 persons so
vaccinated were under one year, 73,243 were over one and under six years, and 31,724 were
over six years of age. In 1889-90 an aggregate of 24.49 persons were successfully vaccinated
per 1,000 of the population, and for the previous five years the annual average was
21.87 per mille of population. It would appear from columns 16 and 18 of this statement
that the largest number of persons, who have been successfully vaccinated per 1,000 of the
population, has been in the Gáro Hills district. Darrang and Sibságar come next in this
respect. The Nága Hills, Khási Hills, and Sylhet are still very backward with regard to the
vaccinations per mille of population, although the increase in the actual number of
operations in Sylhet in the past year has been so far satisfactory. The average'annual number
of deaths from small-pox during the previous five years, i.e., from 1884 to 1888, was .41 per
mille of population. It was highest (.96 per mille of population) in Darrang, and (.07)
lowest in the Nowgong district.
Annual Statement No II., explanation of
11. The Annual Statement No. II. shows the cost of the department in 1889-90.
The total expenditure was Rs. 13,769-10-11. Of this
amount, Rs. 5,843-10-6 were contributed by Government,
Rs. 7,069-9-9 by Local Boards, and Rs. 856-6-8 by the
Municipalities. The average cost of each successful case for the whole Province was
2 annas 1¾ pie It was remarkably, and indeed ridiculously, high in the Nága Hills district,
which arose from what the Deputy-Commissioner describes—" The fault lies to a great
extent with the vaccinator who is a mere boy, and certainly not a man likely to do any-
thing with Nágas." This boy was appointed by the Civil Surgeon from among the
aspirants attached to the dispensary, and had, the Civil Surgeon states, seen the Hospital-
Assistant perform vaccination several times; but it was evidently a very bad appointment,