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of 2,538 operations done in Sylhet was due to the fact that there were four more
licensed vaccinators in that district than in the previous year. In Manipur there
were 1,776 more operations done than in 1892-93. The Civil Surgeon states that
Manipuris, Nágas, and Kukis are willing to have their children vaccinated.
Districts giving the largest
decrease.
11. In Darrang there were 36 per cent. fewer operations done than in the
previous year, 14,314 vaccinations as against 22,522 in
1892-93. The Civil Surgeon states that the large decrease
was due to the fact that the first eight supplies of lymph
failed, the consequence being that no work was done till the end of December. In
Nowgong there were also 36 per cent. fewer operations done than in the previous year,
due, the Civil Surgeon says, to the bad lymph received during the first part of the season
and to the prevalence of kála-azár. In Goálpára there were 26 per cent. and in Kámrúp
22 per cent. fewer operations done than in 1892-93. The Civil Surgeon of Goálpára
attributes the decrease to the greater opposition shown by the people, especially in
places where small-pox was prevalent. The decrease in Kámrúp is believed by the
Civil Surgeon to have been due partly to the bad lymph received and partly to the
disturbances which occurred during a portion of the vaccinating season.
Number of infants and children
successfully vaccinated.
12. Including vaccinations done by the dispensary establishment, there were
37,112 infants under 1 year of age and 87,519 children
between the ages of 1 and 6 years successfully vaccinated
during the year, as against 41,920 and 114,813, the num-
bers successfully vaccinated at these respective ages during 1892-93. There were,
therefore, 4,808 fewer infants and 27,294 fewer children between 1 and 6 years of age
successfully vaccinated than in the previous year. There were 151,391 births registered
in the province during 1893, so that the percentage of children born during the year,
who were successfully vaccinated, was 24 51 as against 26.89, the percentage successfully
done during 1892-93.
Result of inspections made by
inspecting officers.
13. Statement No. V gives the particulars of the vaccination work which was
verified by inspecting officers during the vaccinating season.
Excluding vaccinations done in tea gardens by tea garden
agency, there were 196,890 vaccinations done in the
province during the year, and of these, 9,890 were inspected by Civil Surgeons and
115,565 by Native Inspectors. Civil Surgeons found that 7,666 and Native Inspectors
that 103,178 of the vaccinations inspected by them were successful, so that the percent-
ages found to be successful by Civil Surgeons and Native Inspectors were respectively
77.51 and 89.28. Vaccinators reported that 86.77 per cent. of their primary vaccina-
tions were successful. During the previous year, 18,074 vaccinations were inspected
by Civil Surgeons and 105,070 by Native Inspectors, the percentages found successful
by Civil Surgeons and Native Inspectors having been respectively 91.29 and 89.82,
and in that year vaccinators reported that 93.04 per cent. of their operations were
successful. In 1892-93 there were 4,628 vaccinations inspected by the Civil Surgeon
of Goálpára and 4,765 by the Civil Surgeon of Sibságar ; during the year under review
the numbers inspected by these officers were respectively 663 and 533. During 1893-94
there were 859 vaccinations inspected by the Civil Surgeon of the Khasi and Jaintia
Hills, as against 81 in the previous year. The Civil Surgeon of the Nága Hills inspected
1,139 vaccinations, a comparatively large number when it is considered that he holds the
Civil Surgeoncy as a collateral charge. The percentages of inspections made by Civil
Surgeons to the total number vaccinated again vary considerably. In Sylhet and
Kámrúp the percentages in question were 1.54 and 2.04, respectively, whereas the
respective percentages of inspections done in Darrang and Cachar were 12.31 and 8.46.
The principal reason why Civil Surgeons, as a whole, did less inspection work during
1893-94 than during the previous year, was that the first supplies of lymph failed.
Vaccination work practically did not begin till December, and during the remainder
of the season, Civil Surgeons were not able to overtake as much inspection work as they
did in previous years during the whole season. This, however, does not account for the
whole of the decrease. Nearly one-third of the vaccinating season was lost, but Civil
Surgeons did little more than one-half of the number of inspections which they did in
the previous year.
The number of inspections made by Native Inspectors was somewhat greater than
the number inspected by them during the previous year. The six Sylhet Inspectors
made 47,479 inspections, as against 26,567 made by the same number in the previous
year. On the other hand, the two Native Inspectors of Darrang made 15,055 inspections
in 1892-93, and only 7,234 during the year under review.