( 2 )
have a percentage of only 64.9 (51.3 in 1883-84). A similar difference exists in the work
of Government operators on tea-gardens and in the districts ; there were 3,490 operations
by Government agency in tea-gardens, and 73.6 per cent. are reported successful (51.2
per cent. in 1883-84 and 77.8 in 1882-83), against 91,792 operations in the district, with
a success-percentage of 91.9.
Inspections.
5. Considerable improvement appears in the inspection work of the past year as
compared with its predecessor, 42,534 cases, or 41 per cent.
of the total operations of the year, having been inspected,
against 25,090, or 32 per cent., in 1883-84. The number of inspections by Civil Surgeons,
including the Assistant-Surgeon at Nowgong, has increased from 12,310 to 20,309, and of
these the Civil Surgeon of Goálpára contributed 5,930, or 40 per cent. of the total
number. The number of vaccinations inspected by Native Superintendents was 22,225.
The difference between the success-percentages in Civil Surgeons' and Superintend-
ents' inspections is much less marked this year than formerly. In 1883-84 Superintendents
found 95 per cent. of inspected cases successful, but Civil Surgeons 85 per cent. only.
This year, the percentages are 91.4 and 90.3 respectively showing that Superintendents
have tested cases more rigorously, and that the work seen by Civil Surgeons has been
of better quality. There is reason, however, to believe that vaccinators endeavour,
as far as possible, to show inspecting officers such cases only as they know to have been
successful. In Sylhet, the success-percentage on 9,469 cases inspected by Superintendents
remains at the incredibly high figure of 99 6 The low percentage (88.7 per cent.) of
success recorded by municipal vaccinators, whose work is peculiarly liable to inspection, tends
to show that the average success-percentage of the province is still fictitiously high.
Secondary operations.
6. Secondary operations numbered 583, of which 463, or 79.4 per cent., were
successful. They were chiefly performed by Government
vaccinators (195), Civil Surgeons (164), and municipal
vaccinators (101), and it does not appear that re-vaccination was practised at all on tea-
gardens during the year.
Vaccinating staff.
7. The following table gives an abstract statement of the work done by the
vaccinating agency under Government employed in the
province during the last three years :—
1.
2
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
Civil Surgeons ................
Assistant Surgeons
Hospital-Assistants ..........
Compounders ...............
Native Superintendents .........
Government vaccinators ...........
Apprentices .......................
Municipal vaccinators ............
Local Board „ ................
Honorary „ .............
Ex-inoculators .......
Total ....................
1882-33.
Number of operators.
12
.... 32
5
2
35
1
4
16
4
48
158
Number of operations.
2,330
...... 4,175
857
443
27,286
Number of operations
per head.
194
...... 130
171
221
780
No separate return.
1,300
9,007
9,466
54,864
325
450
197
347
Ratio of success per
cent.
84.6
...... 85.5
84.5
80.1
90.4
89.4
90.8
91.3
89.3
1883-84.
Number of operators.
13
3
25
3
4
45
1
6
20
51
170
Number of operations.
2,722
136
2,024
589
707
42,359
Number of operations
per head.
209
45
81
196
177
941
No separate return.
1,487
15,219
13,114
78,357
248
761
257
461
Ratio of success per
cent.
82.4
79.4
81.6
90.4
93.2
91.8
88.8
90.2
93.8
91.2
1884-85.
Number of operators
12
1
28
5
5
42
1
8
40
27
169
Number of operations
2,667
235
2,557
1,431
1,617
40,805
19
4,146
26,486
15,319
95,282
Number of operations
per head.
222
235
91
286
823
971
9
518
662
567
563
Ratio of success per
cent
86.3
88.0
89.9
94.7
93.5
92.4
100.0
88.7
90.1
94.0
91.8
Provincial staff.
*Nowgong ...............
Shillong .................
Tura .......................
Sylhet ....................
1,289
1 511
1,435
1,083
8. There is a slight decrease in the number of operations performed by Civil Surgeons,
and the bulk of the work was done by Dr. Whitwell at
Dibrugarh (1,560 cases) and Dr. Campbell at Tezpur (664
cases); no Civil Surgeon anywhere else did so many as 50 operations. Except at Nowgong,
no vaccination work of any kind was done by any Assistant-Surgeon, the reason being
that in other districts (Goálpára and Darrang), the Assistant-Surgeon is attached to the
coolie depôt, and paid out of the Inland Labour Transport Fund. The work done by
hospital-assistants shows an improvement, Mangaldai heading the list with 356 successful
operations, while the returns shown by North Lakhimpur, Sibságar, Shillong, Gauháti,
and Balaganj also are fairly creditable. The staff of Native Superintendents has
increased from four to five, of whom two are stationed in Sylhet, and the remainder in
Goálpára, Kámrúp, and Nowgong, the latter being a new man. Though the total
number of operations by provincial vaccinators has decreased,
the staff having been reduced by three, the average per man
has risen from 941, in 1883-84 to 971, and in four districts*