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Vaccination on tea gardens.
10. The preceding table shows the vaccination work performed on tea gardens by
the garden agency as well as by the Government agency.
A grand total of 11,219 vaccinations were performed, against
16,696 in 1890-91 and 9,992 in 1889-90. The decrease is due to much less work of
this description having been done in the tea gardens of all the districts, with the exception
of Nowgong and Lakhimpur. In the Darrang and Sylhet districts, the decrease was most
remarkable. The grand total increase in the Lakhimpur district was due to the vaccina-
tions by garden agency having risen from 1,102 in 1890-91 to 1,520 in the past year. In
this district there was, however, a decrease of operations under Government agency. The
number of successful cases decreased from 13,387, or 80.18 per cent., in 1890-91, to 9,285,
or 82.76 per cent., in 1891-92. The percentage of successful cases in the Sylhet district
continues to be very low, although there was a slight improvement over the figures of the
previous year. The general low percentage of success in gardens is attributed to lymph
having been used by the garden agencies after it had been kept for a long time, so that it
had become inert and useless, and no doubt it is often due to vaccination being carelessly
performed and inspected. Of the total number of 11,219 operations performed on tea
gardens, 9,229 were done by garden agencies, with 7,430 successful cases, and 1,990 were
performed by the public vaccinators, &c., with 1,855 successes.
TABLE No. 4.
Name of municipality, &c.
Sylhet Municipality ..
Dhubri
„ ..
Goálpára
„ ..
Gauháti
„ ..
Dibruparh
„ ..
Ditto Cantonment ..
Silchar Station ..
Sibságar „
.. ..
Golághát Union ..
Total .. ..
Population according to census of
1891.
14,027
4,825
5,440
10,817
8,362
1,514
7,523
5,249
2,211
59,968
Number of children on the register
since the Act has been in force.
4,231
51
162
.... 2,243
.... 20
29
....
6,736
Number of vaccinations.
1888-89.
Total number.
285
..
..
581
499
41
..
.. ..
1,406
Number
successfully
vaccinated.
271
..
..
447
436
21
..
..
..
1,175
1889-90.
Total number.
484
..
..
541
626
83
..
..
..
1,734
Number successfully
vaccinated.
470
..
..
422
504
43
..
..
..
1,439
1890-91.
Total number.
414
47
47
508
737
138
..
..
..
1,891
Number
successfully
vaccinated
358
32
45
444
684
95
..
..
..
1,658
1891-92.
Total number.
358
59
193
702
751
6
93
29
..
2,191
Number
successfully
vaccinated.
335
56
188
587
725
6
87
25
..
2,009
1891-92.
Number of notices issued.
280
..
..
28
15
..
..
..
..
323
Number of prosecutions
7
..
..
1
..
..
..
..
..
8
Number of punishments.
...
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
Morta1ity
from small-
pox during
five years
1887 to 1891.
Average number of
deaths from small-pox
2
..
..
5
..
.. 4
1
..
12
Death-rate per 1,000 of
population.
.14
..
..
.46
..
.. 53
.19
..
20
Compulsory Vaccination Act came
in force.
1st October 1882.
13th
February
1891.
12th
November
1890
August 1882
September 1883.
Ditto
21st January 1892.
Ditto.
24th March 1892.
Compulsory vaccination.
11. The above table shows the vaccination work done under the Compulsory Vac-
cination Act in the municipalities and stations named in it,
and in accordance with paragraph 11 of the Chief Com-
missioner's Resolution on the Vaccination Report of this province for 1889-90. This
table also shows, for the first time, the average number of deaths, and the death rate
per 1,000 of population, from small-pox for the five years from 1887 to 1891. The total
number of operations performed increased from 1,891 in 1890-91 to 2,191 in 1891-92,
and the number of successful cases from 1,658 to 2,009. Vaccination was made
compulsory by law in the stations of Silchar and Sibságar from the 21st January 1892,
and also in the Golághát Union from the 24th March 1892. In the Sylhet Municipality
280 notices were issued under Act XIII of 1880, against 250 in the previous year ; and
there were 7 prosecutions. In Gauháti 28 notices were issued against 10 in the previous
year, and there was only one prosecution. In Dibrugarh 15 notices were issued against
nil in the preceding year. No measures had to be taken in any of the other
compulsory areas for the enforcement of the Act. The Gauháti Municipality shows a
good increase and Dibrugarh Municipality a slight increase in vaccination under the Act,
although the cantonment of the latter place shows a remarkable decrease. Sibságar
Station shows 29, against nil in the previous year, as a result of the work from 21st
January to 31st March 1892, and Silchar shows 93 against nil in the preceding year.
The small-pox death-rate generally corresponds with the relative protection or otherwise
of the areas given in this table.