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Vaccination in the compulsory areas under
Act V. of 1880.
7. The table in the preceding page shows the vaccination work done in the compulsory
areas in the towns of Sylhet, Gauháti, and Dibrugarh, and in
the cantonment of the latter station under Act V. of 1880, as
compared with that of the last three previous seasons. The total number of operations
performed was 1,734 in 1889-90, against 1,406 in 1888-89, showing an increase of 328
over the figures of the previous year, which is a good improvement. In Sylhet
352 notices were issued. In Gauháti there were 7 prosecutions and 7 punishments ; 40
notices were issued at this station. In the Dibrugarh Municipality no notices were
issued for the reason explained in paragraph 7 of last year's report.
TABLE NO.6.
Showing the number of Licensed Vaccinators' Operations inspected by the Civil Surgeons and Native
Inspectors during the year 1889-90.
District.
Goálpára ........................
Kámrúp ........................
Sibságar ......................
Total
Total number of vaccinations.
12,943
5,080
735
18,758
...
Number
of
vaccina-
tions in-
spected.
By Civil Sur-
geons.
2,326
*221
...
2,547
By Native In-
spectors.
5,858
2,957
279
9,094
11,641
Number of
vaccina-
tions found
successful.
By Civil Sur-
geons.
2,163
*198
...
2,361
By Native In-
spectors.
5,595
2,700
234
8,529
10,890
Number of
vaccina-
tions found
unsuccess-
ful.
By Civil Sur-
geons.
163
*23
...
186
By Native In-
spectors.
263
257
45
565
751
Percentage
of success-
ful cases ac-
tually veri-
fied by in-
spection.
By Civil Sur-
geons.
92.99
*89.59
...
92.69
By Native In-
spectors.
95.51
91.30
83.87
93.79
93.55
* By Hospital-Assistant of Barpeta.
Inspection of licensed vaccinators' work.
8. The number of licensed vaccinators' operations inspected by the Civil Surgeons
and Native Inspectors of Vaccination during 1889-90 is
recorded in the above table
The number of vaccinations
performed by this class of operators amounted to 18,758, as compared with 22.284 in
1888-89, showing a decrease of 3,526 operations over the figures of the previous season.
Of this number, 2,547 were inspected by the Civil Surgeons, of which 2,361 were
found successful, as compared with 3,252 and 3,021 respectively in 1888-89. The number
of operations seen by the Native Inspectors of Vaccination shows a slight decrease of 167, as
compared with the figures in the previous season. The decrease is accounted for by the
falling off in the number of licensed vaccinators, which was reduced from 50 in 1888-89 to
41 in 1889-90. Of the number inspected by the Native Inspectors, 8,529. or 93.79 per
cent., were found successful, as compared with 8,685, or 93.78 per.cent., in the previous
season ; but the former number shows a greater percentage of successful cases on the smaller
total of operations done in the past year. The reduction in the number of licensed vac-
cinators arose from 12 less of this class having been employed in the Kámrúp district
than in the previous year, although one was employed this year in the Sibságar district and
two more were added to the Goálpára staff by Dr. Dobson, who prefers them to paid vaccina-
tors, as it is, in his opinion, more to their interest to work well, and certainly their average
of successful cases is, in the Goálpárá district, better than the corresponding average in the
other districts, where the work is done by paid or by Provincial vaccinators.