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INTRODUCTION.
Orders for the submission of the Triennial Report on Vaccination . . . . . .
WORK OF THE THREE YEARS 1887-88, 1888-89, AND 1889-90.
Officers in charge of the Department during the period under report . . . . . .
Division of the province into vaccination circles, officers in charge of each circle, and strength of
Working establishment . . . . . .
Cause of increase and decrease in the staff of Inspectors and vaccinators in the different circles
explained . . . . . .
Total number of operations performed by the vaccinators and the average of work done by each man
Explanation of cause of increase and decrease in the number of operations performed during the
period under review . . . . . .
Amount of work done during the recess season . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Number of operations (primary and secondary) performed and the proportion of successful cases .
Reason of increase or falling off in the number of successful operation . . . . . .
Comparative value of work performed by Government, licensed and municipal agency . . .
Table showing vaccine operations performed according to sex and proportion per cent. of each sex
to the total number vaccinated . . . . . . . . . . . .
Comparative table shewing vaccine operations performed according to religion and the proportion
of operations per cent. of population for each . . . . . . . . . . . .
Comparative table shewing the number of successful primary vaccinations according to age and its
proportion per cent. to the total number of primary operation . . . . . .
Cost of vaccination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Contribution from private sources towards — . . . . . . . . . . . .
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GENERAL REMARKS.
Working of the Compulsory Vaccination Act and the area to which it extends
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Lymph — Distrubution and description of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Proposed animal vaccination depôt at Darjeeling . . . . . . . . . . . .
Attitude of the people towards vaccination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Class by which, according to religion, vaccination is best accepted and most resisted . . .
Local authorities — Assistance rendered by the—in the cause of vaccination . . . . . .
Small-pox—Result of Vaccination on the prevalence of— . . . . . . . . . . . .
Diagrams showing the death-rate from—in the several districts of Bengal and the proportion of
persons protected against small-pox . . . . . . . . . . . .
Statements showing the proportion of the infant population protected against small-pox by vacci-
nation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Supervision—Degree of—exercised by Superintendents and Deputy Superintendents of Vaccination
and general remarks on their conduct and work . . . . . . . . .
Statements—Prescribed—for 1889-90 appended to this report . . . . . . . . .
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STATISTICAL RETURNS.
Statement No. I—Showing particulars of vaccination in each circle of superintendence during
1889-90 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Statement No. II—Showing the cost of vaccination in each circle of superintendence during
1889-90 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Statement No. III—Showing particulars of vaccination performed by vaccinators attached to
Comparative statement No. IV—Showing the number of persons primarily vaccinated and the
number of those who were successfully vaccinated in each of the years 1880-81 to 1889-90
Statement No. V(a)—Showing the deaths from small-pox during 1889-90 in the thanas in which
Statement No. V(b)—Showing the total deaths registered from small pox in all the districts of
Bengal during each month of 1889-90 . . . . . . . . . . . .
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