( 3 )
Dhubri ..............................
Gauhati ..............................
Sibságar ..............................
Golághat ...........................
Sylhet ..............................
Sichar .................................
Total ...
1882-83.
.. 1
2
.. 1
...
4
1883-84.
1
1
1
1
1
1
6
8. The number of vaccinators maintained by municipalities, towns, and stations, is
shown in the margin. The addition of two vaccinators has
been followed by an increase of only 187 in the number
of operations, and the average per man has fallen from
325 to 248, being highest in Sibságar (369), and lowest in
Gauháti (147). The number of municipal vaccinators in
Sylhet and Gauháti, however, is stated differently in the
municipal administration reports of these places, i.e., two vaccinators to each municipality,
and this discrepancy will have to be enquired into.
Habiganj .....................
Sunámganj ..................
Karimganj ..................
South Sylhet ...............
Goálpára .....................
Dhubri ........................
Nowgong .....................
Tezpur ........................
Jorhát ...........................
Dibrugarh .....................
North Lakhimpur
Total....
Local Fund
vaccinators.
1
2
5
3
1
1
2
1
1
2 1
20
9. Sylhet was the first district to set the example of paying vaccinators out of Local
Funds, and its example has been followed in 1883-84 by five
other districts. The work done by the 20 vaccinators thus
employed is such that the Local Boards have had full value
for their money; the total number of operations was 15,219,
and the average per operator was 761: in the South Sylhet sub-
division it stood as high as 1,021. The lowest averages are
in Habiganj (337) and Nowgong (379). The figures in the
margin show the number of Local Fund vaccinators employed
in 1883-84, according to Dr. Eteson, but there are several
discrepancies between his returns and the Local Boards' annual reports, the latter
showing expenditure on vaccination where the former show none, and vice versa. The
following is a list of such instances :—
Nowgong .............................................
Tezpur ................................................
Golághát .............................................
North Sylhat .......................................
Habiganj .............................................
Sunámganj ..........................................
South Sylhet .......................................
Expenditure per
Vaccination Report.
Rs.
103
60
Nil.
„
60
119
175
Expenditure per
Local Board's Report.
Rs.
Nil.
„
200
74
Nil.
„
„
Where the Local Board shows no expenditure, and yet vaccinators seem to have been
entertained, probably their cost has not been separated from medical charges generally.
Enquiry, however, will be made into all these discrepancies. In Jorhát there is a differ-
ence in the number of vaccinators, Dr. Eteson showing one and the Local Board two.
Ex-inoculators.
1880-81 ..................
1881-82.....................
1882-83.....................
1883-84..................
Ex-inoculators.
No.
58
96
48
51
Operations.
8,663
15,890
9,466
13,114
10. Ex-inoculators account for a large proportion of the increase in vaccination
work since 1880-81, when their operations were first brought
on record. In 1883-84 their work amounts to one-sixth of
the total number of operations performed by Government
agency, and in 1882-83 the proportion was a little higher.
The districts in which they worked are the following:—
Gáro Hills ..............................
Goálpára .................................
Kámrúp .................................
Sibságar .................................
Sylhet ....................................
Total
1882-83.
No.
1
16
20
9
2
48
No. of operations.
240
5,222
3,218
521
265
9,466
1883-84.
No.
1
9
35
3
3
51
No. of operations.
233
6,319
5,418
323
821
13,114
The nine men in Goálpára in 1883-84 actually did more work than the sixteen in
1882-83 (6,319 operations against 5,222), and attained the respectable average of 702
cases per man. The Civil Surgeon, differing from his predecessor, thinks that inocula-
tion is now rarely practised, and only in the remoter villages. The number of ex-
inoculators in Kámrúp is subject to great and sudden fluctuations: it was 76 in 1881-82,
20 in 1882-83, and has been raised again to 35 in 1883-84; these 35 men are reported
to have performed 5,414 operations. This great addition to the number of ex-inoculators
is not even alluded to in the district report, and the instructions of the Chief Commis-
sioner have (as Dr. Eteson points out) been altogether disregarded. In the Resolution
on the Report for 1882-83, paragraph 6, it was stated that as a rule ex-inoculators
were not to be employed unless they could be properly supervised: now, the present report
shows that twelve of these men were employed in the Barpeta sub-division entirely
without supervision, and they have reported all their operations (1,314) as successful.