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From the table it appears that in the municipalities and unions in which vaccination
is compulsory, with an aggregate population of 62,127, 2,878 persons were vaccinated
during the year, and in the case of 2,154 of these the operation was successfully performed.
There were altogether 700 notices issued under the Acts, 8 persons were prosecuted, and
5 were punished. During 1892-93 there were 2,721 successful operations done in places
in which vaccination is compulsory, or 567 more than during the year under review.
During the year 1893 there was not a single death registered from small-pox in these
municipalities and unions, the small-pox death-rate for the province, as a whole,
having been 0.53 per 1,000.
Silchar Municipality.
16. There were 133 persons vaccinated in this municipality during the year,
and in the case of 123 of them, the operation was done
successfully. In 1892-93, 175 persons were successfully
vaccinated. There were 70 notices issued during the year, one person was prosecuted
and one was punished. No deaths occurred from small-pox during 1893. The
average annual death-rate from this cause during the previous five years in this
municipality was 0.66 per 1,000.
Sylhet Municipality.
17. The total number vaccinated and the number successfully vaccinated in this
area during the year, were respectively 425 and 344, the
corresponding numbers in 1892-93 having been 405 and 378.
There were 481 notices issued under the Act, but there was not a single prosecution.
Dhubri Municipality.
18. One hundred and thirty-one vaccinations were done in this municipality during the
year, of which 114 were successful. In 1892-93, 218 opera-
tions were done, of which 174 were successful. No notices
were issued under the Act during the year, and, though there was a severe outbreak of
small-pox in the Goálpára district, not a single death occurred from that cause in Dhubri.
Goálpára Municipality.
19. There were only 56 vaccinations done in this municipality during the year, of
which 53 were successful. The corresponding figures for
1892-93 were 83 and 74. The Civil Surgeon reports that
the Hospital Assistant of the Goálpára dispensary displayed little energy in this part
of his work. Nine notices were issued during the year, but there were no prosecutions.
Gauháti Municipality.
20. The total number vaccinated and the number successfully vaccinated during
the year in this municipality were, respectively, 503 and
407, the corresponding numbers for 1892-93 having been
790 and 774. The Civil Surgeon reports that the decrease was due to the lack of energy
of the vaccinator. There were no notices issued under the Act during the year.
Dibrugarh Municipality.
21. The large number of 1,139 operations were done in this municipality and
cantonment during the year, of which 815 were successful.
In 1892-93, 692 persons were successfully vaccinated in
this area. There were 114 notices issued under the Act ; 7 persons were prosecuted, and
4 were fined.
Sibságar Station.
22. One hundred and seventy persons were vaccinated in this station during the year,
but, owing to the first eight supplies of lymph having failed,
in only 49 cases with a successful result. Eighteen notices
were issued under the Act, but there were no prosecutions.
Golághát Union.
23. Out of a small population of 2,211, as many as 149 vaccinations were done in
Golághát, and in 114 cases the operation was successful.
In the previous year 156 persons were successfully vaccinat-
ed in this Union. Two notices were issued under the Act during the year, but no
one was prosecuted.
Jorhát Union.
24. The comparatively large number of 172 vaccinations, of which 135 were
successful, were done in this small Union during the year,
the corresponding numbers for the previous year having been
respectively 116 and 111. There were six notices issued under the Act during the year,
but no prosecutions were instituted.
Inoculation.
25. From the reports of Civil Surgeons the practice of inoculation seems to be
gradually dying out. It is still, however, practised to a
considerable extent in the Karimganj, Habiganj and Sunám-
ganj subdivisions of the Sylhet district, and in several places in Cachar. The Civil
Surgeon of Lakhimpur reports that it is still widely practised among the Assamese in
that district, and the Civil Surgeon of Shillong states that inoculations appear to have been
lately done in a village not far from Shillong. In the other districts of the province,
inoculation seems to be little practised.