REPORT ON VACCINATION IN THE PROVINCE OF ASSAM FOR THE
YEAR 1888-89.
Plan of the Report.
1. As a detailed report will be due next year, the following remarks shall be
limited to brief comments on the statistics of vaccination
for the past year, except where something more extended
seems necessary. The Annual Report on Vaccination for the year ending 1888-89 has
been prepared on the lines of that of the previous year. Statement No. III. was shown
blank last year, and all the vaccinations performed in dispensaries were included in
Statement No. I. appended to the report; but this year the work done by the dispensary
officials has been shown in Statement No. III., and the work of the vaccination staff in
Statement No. I. in accordance with the forms prescribed by the Government of India,
Home Department Resolution No. 86, dated the 9th May 1877.
Lymph supply.
2. Two hundred tubes of lymph were received from England and distributed to all
Civil Surgeons about the middle of September 1888. The
results from the use of this supply were reported as very good
and generally successful. Tube lymph produced in India was as a rule obtained direct by
most of the Civil Surgeons from the Sanitary Commissioner, Bengal, and Deputy-Sanitary¬
Commissioners, Dacca and Darjiling Circles. In some cases lymph obtained by this
office from the Deputy-Sanitary-Commissioner, Darjiling Circle, was distributed to Civil
Surgeons, especially in the Khási and Jaintia Hills district, and to regimental medical
officers. The results of these supplies were reported as generally good. The use of
bovine lymph was not found successful.
TABLE No. 1.
Showing the agency employed in each district of the Province during the years 1887-88 and 1888-89.
District.
Cachar ...........
Sylhet
...........
Goálpára ...........
Kámrúp ...........
Darrang ..........
Nowgong ..........
Sibságar ...........
Lakhimpur ...........
Nága Hills
........
Khási „ ........
Gáro „ ........
Manipur
..........
Total ........
1887-88
Civil Surgeons.
1
..
.. 1
1
1
1
1
1 1
.. ..
7
Assistant-Surgeons.
1
..
.. ..
..
..
..
1
..
..
..
..
2
Hospital-Assistants.
5
11
5
2
2
2
4
1
1
2
..
..
35
Compounders.
2
9
..
.. 1
..
..
..
1
2
..
..
15
Native Inspectors.
1
4
1
1
1
1
1
..
..
..
..
..
10
Provincial vaccinators.
3
10
1
4
4
3
3
4
1
3
6
1
43
Municipal vaccinators.
1
2
.. 1
..
..
3
1
..
1
..
..
9
Local Board vaccina-
tors.
7
19
.. 10
13
9
14 7
..
..
..
79
Licensed vaccinators.
..
.. 13
18
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
31
Total.
21
55
20
37
22
16
26
15
3
9
6
1
231
1888-89.
Civil Surgeons.
1
..
.. 1
1
1
..
..
..
..
..
4
Assistant-Surgeons.
1
.. ..
.. ..
..
..
1
..
..
..
..
2
Hospital-Assistants.
3
9
4
2
2
2
4
1
1
1
..
..
29
Compounders.
2
10
..
.. 2
..
.. ..
1
..
..
..
15
Native Inspectors.
1
5
1
1
2
1
1
..
..
..
..
l2
Provincial vaccinators.
3
10
1
4
4
3
8
4
1
3
6
1
43
Municipal vaccinators.
1
2
.. 1
..
.. 3
1
..
1
..
..
9
Local Board vaccina-
tors.
7
26
.. 8
11
9
14
7
..
..
..
..
82
Apprentices.
..
..
..
.. 1
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
1
Licensed vaccinators.
..
..
18
32
..
..
..
.. ..
..
..
..
50
Total.
19
62
24
49
23
16
25
14
3
5
6
1
247
Vaccination agency.
3. The number and class of vaccinators and other operators are shown in the above
table for the past two years, 1887-88 and 1888-89. The
number has increased from 231 in 1887-88 to 247 in
1888-89, chiefly due to the employment of more Local Boards' vaccinators and to the
increase of licensed vaccinators from 31 to 50. The number of Civil Surgeons and
Hospital-Assistants who performed vaccinations is less than in the previous year. The
licensed vaccinators have been, as in 1887-88, confined to the Goálpára and Kámrúp
districts. There has been no change in the establishment of Provincial Inspectors of
Vaccination during the year under review, but in the Sylhet and Darrang districts two
more Inspectors were entertained by the Local Boards. The number of Provincial Service
vaccinators remained the same as in 1887-88, but there has been an increase of Local
Boards' vaccinators from 79 to 82.
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