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year. In the Sibsagar district, 5,769 more vaccinations were done in 1894-95 than in
the previous year, and in 1895-96 the number of operations done exceeded those
done in 1894-95 by 11,423, and during the year, 71.28 per 1,000 of the population of
the district were successfully vaccinated. These results show that Surgeon-Lieutenant-
Colonel Borah continues to take much interest in vaccination work. In the Manipur
State, 5,633 more operations were done than in the previous year. The Civil Surgeon
states that a good deal of work was done in villages on the Burmese frontier which
had never been visited before. In the Kamrup district, 6,603 more vaccinations were
done in 1894-95 than in 1893-94, and in 1895-96 there was a substantial increase of
3,505 above the number done in 1894-95. In the Darrang district, there were 3,430
more vaccinations done than in 1894-95, but there were 8,321 more vaccinations done
in that district in 1892-93 than in the year under review.
Districts in which the greatest
decrease occurred.
11. There were 3,249 fewer vaccinations performed in the Naga Hills district than
in the previous year. The Civil Surgeon states that the
decrease was partly due to a considerable portion of the
work having been done in the less accessible portions of
the district and partly to the fact that the dread of small-pox is passing off, and Nagas
are again beginning to refuse to allow their children to be vaccinated.. In the Khasi
and Jaintia Hills there were 946 fewer operations done than in the previous year.
The Civil Surgeon states that the decrease was due to the Inspector having been
kept at headquarters during the first half of the season in order to give assistance at
the lymph depôt so that, during that period, he was unable to push on the work in the
interior of the district. There were 864 fewer vaccinations done in the Garo Hills
district than in 1894-95, due, the Civil Medical Officer states, to the work having
been commenced a month later than in the previous year. The first supply of lymph
was sent from the Shillong depôt to the Garo Hills at the same time as the first supplies
were sent to other districts in the province.
Primary vaccinations done suc-
cessfully at different age periods.
12. Including the work done by the dispensary establishment, there were 47,176
infants under one year of age, 131,507 children between
the ages of one and six years, and 52,822 persons over
six years of age, successfully vaccinated for the first time,
as against 40,082 infants, 90,464 children between the ages of one and six years, and
34,968 persons above six years of age successfully vaccinated during 1894-95.
Percentages found successful by
inspecting officers.
13. Statement No. V gives the particulars of vaccinations verified by, inspecting
officers. Of the 244,268 vaccinations done during the
year by all agencies, with the exception of tea-garden
agencies on tea gardens, 29,886 were inspected by Civil
Surgeons and 158,915 by Native Inspectors of Vaccination. Civil Surgeons found
that 29,045 of the vaccinations inspected by them were successful, a percentage of
97.19. Of the vaccinations inspected by Native Inspectors, 155,660, or 97.95 per
cent., were found to be successful. The percentages found successful by Civil
Surgeons and Native Inspectors coincided very closely with the results given by
vaccinators, who reported that 97.74 of the primary vaccinations done by them were
successful. During 1894-95 Civil Surgeons inspected 13,541 and Native Inspectors
120,796 vaccinations, so that Civil Surgeons inspected 16,345 and Native Inspectors
38,119 more vaccinations than in the previous year. As in 1894-95, the largest number
of inspections was made by Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel Borah, the Civil Surgeon of
Sibsagar, who examined 8,300 vaccinations, being 24.92 per cent. of the total number
vaccinated. The Civil Surgeons of Sylhet and Goalpara inspected, respectively, 4,547
and 3,647 vaccinations. Seeing that the Civil Surgeon of Manipur holds the Civil
Surgeoncy as a collateral charge, a creditable amount of inspection work was done by
him. The inspections made by the Civil Surgeons of Nowgong, Kamrup, Darrang