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Licensed agency.—There was a decrease in the number of licensed vacci-
nators, but with an increase in the number of operations performed the average
per man was higher than that of the preceding year.
District Board.—The number of vaccinators employed by District Boards
was slightly smaller, but there was a rather heavy decrease of 2,785 in the.
number of operations performed, the average per man being consequently
somewhat less during the year under review than during 1896-97.
Government agency.—On the whole there was a decrease of 56 in the
number of vaccinators employed by Government, being chiefly due to the
abolition of the paid vaccination system and the introduction of the licensed
system of work in its stead in Angul. The number of operations performed
was higher, as was also the average per man during the year under review as
compared with the previous year.
Municipal agency.—There was a small decrease of seven in the number of
vaccinators employed, but rather a large falling off in both the number of
vaccinations performed and the average per man as contrasted with the year
before. The following 15 municipalities alone are responsible for a decrease
of 11,562 operations:—Hooghly-Chinsura (646), Howrah (3,652), the four
Suburban Municipalities (1,386), Kandi (760), the four municipalities in the
Patna district (2,792), Gaya (621), Bhagalpur (488), Kurseong (566), and
Muzaffarpur (651). In Hooghly-Chinsura, Howrah, and the Suburban Muni-
cipalities this was only apparent, being chiefly due to the fact that owing to the
prevalence of small-pox a much larger number of vaccinations were performed
in them during the previous year. In Patna City and Bihar the difference is
explained by the Civil Surgeon to be due to a much larger number of vacci-
nations having been performed during the year before through an organized
attempt to find out during the recess those who had not been vaccinated and
to vaccinate them during the cold weather. In Barh and Dinapore Nizamut
the scare following the introduction of the Plague Regulations is said to have
interfered with vaccination work, thus diminishing the number of operations
performed. In Gaya it is said to be due to slackness on the part of the
vaccinators and in Bhagalpur to the fact that for the first time last year it
came to be known that the operation of the Compulsory Vaccination Act had
been suspended in 1895, in consequence of which non-compliance with the
provisions of the law could not be punished. No reason has been assigned
for the falling off of operations in Kandi, Kurseong and Muzaffarpur.
Vaccination according to sex,
and age and class.
10. The subjoined statements furnish de-
tails of vaccination according to sex, age and
class:—
AREA.
1
Culcutta ... ...
Calcutta
Animal
vaccine Depôt.
Total of Calcutta and
Depôt
Provincial rural areas
Mufassal municipal-
ities, dispensaries, &c.
GRAND TOTAL ...
NUMBER VACCINATED AMONGST—
MALES.
1897-98.
2
8,031
2,820
10,851
1,134,954
74,716
1,220,521
1896-97.
3
12,521
4,017
16,538
1,110,327
82,749
1,209,614
Difference.
Increase.
4
...
...
...
24,627
...
10,907
Decrease.
5
4,490
1,197
5,687
...
8,033
...
FEMALES.
1897-98.
6
6,924
175
7,099
1,047,723
44,193
1,099,015
1896-97.
7
8,382
706
9,088
1,026,400
48,553
1,084,041
Difference.
Increase.
8
...
...
...
21,323
...
14,974
Decrease.
9
1,458
531
1,989
...
4,360
...
PROPORTION PER CENT. TO TOTAL VACCINATION.
MALES.
1897-98.
10
53.56
94.16
60.45
61.99
62.83
53.05
1896-97.
11
59.90
85.05
64.54
51.96
63.02
52.74
Difference.
Increase.
12
...
9.1
...
.03
...
.31
Decrease.
13
6.34
...
4.09
.19
...
FEMALES.
1897-98.
14
46.29
5.84
39.54
48.00
37.16
47.38
1896-97.
15
40.10
14.95
35.46
48.04
36.98
47.26
Difference.
Increase.
16
6.19
...
4.08
...
.18
.12
Decrease.
17
...
9.11
...
.04
...
...
C