No. 503S
FROM
SURGEON-COLONEL C. P. COSTELLO,
Principal Medical Officer and Sanitary Commissioner, Assam,
To
THE SECRETARY TO THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER OF ASSAM.
Shillong, the 15th May 1893.
SIR,
Government of India, Home De-
partment (Public) Nos. 28—1579-
95, dated Simla, the 15th July
1887.
IN accordance with the instructions contained in the orders of the Government
of India quoted in the margin, I have the honour to submit
the detailed Vaccination Report of the Province of
Assam for the triennial period ending 1892-93. The report
also gives a full history and shows the general result of the
working of the department during the past year.
Remarks on Annual Statement
No. I.
2. The annual statement No. I appended to this report shows the particulars of
vaccination for each district, the classes of operators, the
population in gross, and the average per square mile, the
total operations of the season in each district, the average
number of vaccinations performed by each class of operators, the primary vaccinations
and re-vaccinations, with the proportion of successful cases, the average annual number of
successful vaccinations in the quinquennial period immediately preceding the past year,
and the average mortality from small-pox during the years 1887—91.
Remarks on the strength of the
paid vaccination agency in 1892-93,
and also on that of licensed vacci-
nators in the same year, as com-
pared with the previous years.
3. There was a total of 216 operators, including the licensed vaccinators but exclud-
ing the dispensary staff. The total establishment of the
department paid from Provincial Funds, by Local Boards,
Municipalities, &c., consisted of 16 Native Inspectors of
Vaccination against 14 in 1891-92 and 13 in 1890-91. The
number of Native Inspectors was increased by two, viz., one
in the Lakhimpur district and one in the Khási and Jaintia Hills, during the year under
review. There were 152 vaccinators in 1892-93 as compared with 151 and 135 respectively
in 1891-92 and in 1890-91. Three Local Board vaccinators were added to the staff, but
the number of vaccinators employed in the Manipur State was reduced by two, which
shows a net increase of one vaccinator over the numbers engaged in the previous year.
The number of licensed vaccinators increased from 42 in 1890-91, and 41 in 1891-92 to
46 in 1892-93. The increase of five licensed vaccinators over those of the previous year
was due to the employment of one vaccinator of this class for the first time in the Sylhet
district and four in the Kámrúp district, in addition to the numbers of this class previously
employed in the latter district.
General operations in 1892-93.
4. The total number of persons vaccinated during the year by the vaccination staff
was 200,241 against 180,211 in 1891-92 and 163,281 in
1890-91. Of the total number vaccinated by this agency in
the past year 111,997 were males and 88,244 were females. Each vaccinator performed
on an average 927.04 operations during the past year in comparison with 879.08 and 841.65
respectively in the two preceding years. There were 190,117 cases of primary vaccina-
tions in the past year, against 170,865 in the previous year. There were also 10,124
revaccinations against 9,346 in 1891-92. The percentage of successful cases of primary
vaccinations in the past year was 94.53, and of re-vaccinations 83.17, in comparison with
94.20 and 82.26 respectively in the previous year. In all, 188,133 successful operations
were performed as contrasted with 168,647 in the previous year, or an increase of 19,486
in the number of successful operations ; and 31.51 per thousand of the population were
successfully vaccinated in 1892-93 against 29.93 in 1891-92 and 26.92 in 1890-91. The
percentage of successful primary operations has risen from 89.49 in 1890-91 and 94.20
in 1891-92 to 94.53 in 1892-93. Of the total number of successful primary operations