Resolution on the Vaccination Report in Assam for 1886-87.
Extract from the Proceedings of the Chief Commissioner of Assam in the General Depart-
ment, No. 5,447, dated Shillong, the 14th September 1887.
READ—
The Annual Report on Vaccination in Assam for 1886-87.
RESOLUTION.
THIS Report, which was due in the Secretariat on the 1st July, bears date the 18th
of that month, and was not received in print till the 9th September. Dr. Eteson was in
charge of the department during the whole of the year.
Vaccinating staff.
2. The total staff engaged on the work of vaccination during the year was 214,
against 209 in 1885-86. In the latter year, a large increase
of 40 additional vaccinators, of whom 30 were paid by
Local Boards, was made to the staff. This year the increase is only 5. Four more
Local Fund vaccinators were at work, four more Hospital-Assistants, and three more
compounders. On the other hand, Dr. Eteson shows only 8, against 11 Civil Surgeons,
no Assistant Surgeon, and two licensed vaccinators fewer than last year. The three Civil
Surgeons of Sylhet, the Nága, and the Gáro Hills are, it is presumed, excluded, because
they performed no operations with their own hands; but as inspecting officers they took
part in the work of the department, and should, therefore, have found a place in the
statement. Of the 214 operators, 16 formed the inspecting agency (8 Civil Surgeons
and 8 Native Inspectors), 34 were Hospital-Assistants, and 9 compounders belonging
to dispensaries who have other duties besides vaccination to attend to, and 155 formed the
departmental executive staff, distributed thus:—
Provincial vaccinators ............................
Local Fund ditto ..........................
Municipal ditto ................................
Licensed ditto .................................
Total ..............................
1885-86.
42
70
9
32
153
1886-87.
42
74
9
30
155
Vaccinations performed.
3. The following statement shows the total number of
vaccinations performed by vaccinators of all classes in each
district during the past five years:—
Sylhet ........................
Cachar .......................
Goalpára .....................
Kámrúp
Darrang .......................
Nowgong ......................
Sibságar .......................
Lakhimpur ................
Khási Hills ...................
Gáro „ .....................
Nága „
.....................
Total ..................
In tea-gardens by garden
agency.
Others ........................
Grand Total .............
Population,
Census of
1881.
1,969,009
313,858
446,232
644,960
273,333
310,579
370,274
179,893
169,360
109,548
94,380
4,881,426
......
......
......
1882-83.
16,199
4,692
6,940
5,687
8,716
2,548
3,155
3,087
1,045
2,432
363
54,864
2,243
732
57,839
1883-84.
23,241
5,073
14,477
8,788
5,194
2,983
3,606
5,398
1,861
7,263
473
78,357
10,336
......
88,693
1884-85.
18,896
4,757
16,691
9,872
9,012
10,879
4,971
6,629
3,659
8,688
1,228
95,282
8,449
......
103,731
1885-86.
25,015
9,503
15,352
15,858
9,681
6,819
12,994
8,005
4,279
7,641
495
115,642
6,249
......
121,891
1886-87.
28,083
10,646
11,088
14,653
11,417
10,775
16,450
6,214
3,209
8,222
1,143
121,900
6,933
......
128,833
Excluding operations on tea-gardens, which are imperfectly reported, there has been
an advance of 6,258 vaccinations, or 5.4 per cent., upon the figures of the previous year.
Sylhet, Cachar, Darrang, and Sibságar show a greater number of operations than has
ever before been attained, while Nowgong, Kámrúp, and the Gáro and Nága Hills fall
little below the maximum of previous years. By far the best result, having regard to the
population of the district, is exhibited by Sibságar; and the Chief Commissioner is gra-
tified to find that it is due to a Native Assistant-Surgeon, Babu Annada Prasád Ghosh,
who was in medical charge of the district throughout the year. Retrogression is exhi-
bited by Goálpára (which has this year a less total than in any of the previous three),
Lakhimpur, and the Khási Hills.