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Inspections.
7. The important subject of inspection is illustrated above. It is satisfactory to
find a decided improvement in the figures recorded. Last
season the verified vaccination of the Province was 58,586,
or 48 per cent. of all the operations. In 1887-88, the inspections have totalled 69,237, or
52 per cent. A fair share of this important duty has been taken by Civil Surgeons. I
have found it necessary to forbid Hospital-Assistants inspecting district vaccination
The duty was only nominally performed, and was incompatible with their dispensary
duty. In future they are to be inspectors for town limits only. The last column of the
return gives the percentage of successful operations deduced from inspected cases only,
and is in more reasonable proportion to the actual surrounding conditions, rather than to
fanciful theories.
TABLE NO. 4.
Showing separately the vaccination work among the garden population performed by Government
and Tea-garden Agencies during 1887-88.
District.
Goálpára .................
Kámrúp .................
Nowgong .................
Darrang ....................
Sibságar ..................
Lakhimpur ..................
Sylhet
Cachar
Total
Men.
Primarily vaccinated.
...
3
6
...
23
12
195
4
243
Successfully vaccinated.
...
3
5
...
22
9
190
3
232
Women.
Primarily vaccinated.
...
1
22
...
24
20
185
6
258
Successfully vaccinated.
...
1
20
...
23
14
182
6
246
Children.
Primarily vaccinated.
...
33
319
115
651
583
1,213
1,631
4,545
Successfully vaccinated.
...
30
292
115
588
392
1,112
1,443
3,972
Total vacci-
nations by
tea-garden
agency.
Primarily vaccinated.
...
37
347
115
698
615
1,593
1,641
5,046
Successfully vaccinated.
...
34
317
115
633
415
1,484
1,452
4,450
Total vacci-
nations by
Government
agency.
Primarily vaccinated.
...
Successfully vaccinated.
...
Not recorded
separately.
24
494
...
...
...
1,131
1,649
22
462
...
...
...
1,054
1,538
Grand Total.
Primarily vaccinated.
...
37
371
609
698
615
1,593
2,772
6,695
Successfully vaccinated.
...
34
339
577
633
415
1,484
2,506
5,988
Percentage of success-
ful cases.
...
91.89
91.37
94.74
90.69
67.48
93.15
90.40
89.44
Vaccination on tea-gardens.
8. The vaccination on tea-gardens is a sanitary measure required by the rules
framed under Act I. of 1882; but there is no rule requir-
ing managers to submit a report of what vaccination has
been done. In an Appendix will be found a copy of a circular recently issued to each
district, pointing out the relative duties in this respect. The statistics show that vaccina-
tion is being generally neglected, through the opinion that has spread that the duty rests
primarily with Government operators, and possibly from the continued immunity from
epidemic small-pox enjoyed for some years.
Table No 6 omitted.
9. In previous Annual Reports there has followed in this place a complex and
laboriously detailed table showing the cost of the depart-
ment for the whole season. In accordance with the economy
recommended, this has now been omitted. All necessary information under this heading
will be found in General Statement No. II., which will be explained later on.
TABLE No. 5.
Name of municipality or
cantonment.
Gauháti ..................
Dibrugarh ..................
Ditto
Cantonment....
Sylhet ........................
Total .........
Population according to the Census
of 1881.
11,695
5,417
1,736
14,407
33,255
Number of children on the register
since the Act has been in force.
....
1,133
....
....
1,133
Number of vaccinations.
1884-85.
Total number.
930
459
47
*2,333
3,769
Number successfully
vaccinated.
751
418
43
....
1,212
1885-86.
Total number.
847
510
38
406
1,801
Number successfully
vaccinated.
766
399
22
364
1,551
1886-87.
Total number
692
445
.... 350
1,487
Number successfully
vaccinated.
571
252
.... 340
1,162
1887-88.
Total number.
781
528
.... 360
1,669
Number successfully
vaccinated.
672
491
.... 339
1,502
Number of prosecutions during
1887-88.
4
....
.... 2
6
Number of punishments during
1887-88.
4
....
....
....
4
Act came in force.
August 1882.
September 1883.
Ditto
„
1st October 1882
* From 1st October 1882.