( 15 )
Compared with the preceding year there was a satisfactory increase of
more than 25,000 in the number of primary vaccinations and over 5,000 in
revaccinations performed direct from the calf. It will be seen that this method
of vaccination has found great favour in Rajshahi, Dinajpur, Dacca,
Mymensingh and Backergunge, the inhabitants of which are mostly Muham¬
madans, and in such backward districts as Lohardaga and Palamau. It is
hoped that with the progress of time the prejudices of the Hindus against
vaccination direct from the calf will gradually disappear. In accordance with
the instructions of Government conveyed in their No. 5097S., dated the
30th November 1897, Civil Surgeons were asked to report fully through Magis-
trates and Commissioners whether, having regard to the conditions prevailing
in their districts, the character of the people, and the state of public feeling,
steps can be taken to extend the practice of vaccination direct from the calf.
There seems from the replies to be no objection to an extension of this system
of vaccination in Burdwan, Midnapore, 24-Parganas, Jessore, Khulna, Nadia,
Murshidabad, Rajshahi, Dinajpur, Rangpur, Bogra, Pabna, Mymensingh,
Backergunge, Tippera, Noakhali, Chittagong, Sonthal Parganas, Cuttack and
Balasore. In the remaining districts the objection to the introduction or a
further extension of the measure is chiefly based on the religious prejudices of
the people. Having regard to the state of public feeling at present in connection
with plague measures, it is not expedient just now to make any attempt to
extend the system of direct calf vaccination in places in which the measure is
not readily acceptable to the people.
Supply of lanoline lymph to
Nipal.
15. Altogether 564 grains of lanoline vaccine paste were supplied to the
Nipal Darbar from the Darjeeling Animal Vaccin-
ation Depôt during 1897-98. No returns of oper-
ations performed with this lymph were supplied
except one, from which it appears that all the 25 cases (24 primary and
1 re-vaccination) done with it proved very successful.
Inspections.
16. The inspections performed by Deputy Sanitary Commissioners,
Civil Surgeons, Inspectors and Sub-Inspectors of
Vaccination are given below in order of sequence:—
Deputy Sanitary Commissioners.
CIRCLE.
1
Metropolitan and
Eastern Bengal.
Northern Bengal...
Western Bengal ...
Name of Deputy Sanitary
Commissioner.
2
Surgeon-Captain Jay Gould
from 1st April to 17th July
1897.
Surgeon-Captain B. H. Deare,
I.M.S., D.P.H. (Camb.),from
1st April to 5th August
1897.
Surgeon-Captain E. S. Peck
from 1st April to 17th July
1897; Surgeon-Captain J. C.
Vaughan from 18th July to
3rd August 1897, and
Assistant
Surgeon Gopal
Chandra Mukherji from the
4th August 1897 to 31st
March 1898.
Number
of villages
in his juris-
diction.
3
55,468
95,390
91,800
......
Total
number of
operations
performed
in his juris-
diction.
4
832,063
933,446
539,072
......
Number
of
villages
visited.
5
Number
of
opera-
tions in-
spected.
6
Number of
operations
found to
have been
successfully
vaccinated.
7
Proportion
of opera-
tions in-
spected to
total num-
ber of
operations
performed
in his juris-
diction.
8
Proportion
of success-
ful opera-
tions to
total
number of
operations
inspected.
9
He was unable to do any vaccinator inspection work,
having been wholly engaged in works connected with
bubonic plague in Calcutta.
He was deputed to act as an inspecting officer under the
Epidemic Diseases Act at Katihar plague camp, and
therefore could not do any vaccination inspection
work.
Dr. Peck was engaged in plague duty at Khanna, and so
did no vaccination inspection work. Dr. Vaughan
could do no vaccination inspection work during the
short period of his incumbency.
111
4,227
3,990
.78
94.39
NOTE.—There was no Deputy Sanitary Commissioner in the Metropolitan Circle from the 18th July, and in the Northern
Bengal Circle from the 6th August to the end of the year (31st March 1898).