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Work done in each district by
all agencies combined.
9. The next Table No. 2 gives the number of vaccination operations done by all
agencies combined in the different districts for the last
five working seasons, and it shows a most undesirable fall-
ing off in the amount of work done in the last one:
TABLE NO. 2.
Showing the amount of vaccination work done by all agencies in each district during the past
five years.
District.
1
Carhar...
...
...
Sylhet... ... ...
Goalpara... ...
Kamrup...
...
Darrang... ...
Nowgong...
...
Sibsagar... ...
Lakhimpur... ...
Naga Hills... ...
Khasi and Jaintia Hills ...
Garo
Hills...
...
Lushai Hills... ...
Manipur... ...
Tea gardens by garden agency...
Total...
Total number vaccinated
1894-95.
2
7,926
51,530
13,591
26,313
10,771
10,091
21,889
14,390
14,138
4,845
6,150
459
11,686
6,358
200,137
1895-96.
3
10,045
75,712
14,307
29,818
14,301
12,776
33,312
16,280
10,889
3,899
5,286
424
17,319
16,422
260,690
by paid and dispensary establishments.
1896-97.
4
10,686
81,066
19,086
25,520
11,797
13,207
41,283
13,415
11,558
4,990
8,340
766
16,708
16,274
274,696
1897-98.
5
10,946
87,004
26,702
24,091
14,135
19,659
33,024
14,278
10,101
4,397
8,798
486
19,139
11,154
283,914
1898-99.
6
11,094
72,292
19,855
32,000
12,537
9,347
20,380
14,475
7,677
8,412
15,866
793
21,962
12,215
258,905
Districts showing increased work.
10. With the exception of Cachar and Lakhimpur where just about the usual
average of work has been done, the only plains district
which shows any increase is Kamrup where 32,000 opera-
tions are reported to have been done, against 24,091 in 1897-98 and 25,520 in 1896-97,
but as the number of births registered in this district was only 16,142 in 1897 and 16,201
in 1898, that is, 32,343 in the two years, I doubt very much whether 32,000 vaccinations
were really performed ; I should like to believe they were. In the Khasi and Jaintia
Hills, the number has been nearly doubled, being 8,412 against 4,397. In the Garo
Hills also the number is nearly doubled, viz., 15,866 against 8,798. So also in the
Lushai Hills, and in the Manipur State the number has risen from 19,139 to 21,962.
Districts showing decreased work.
11. The Darrang, Goalpara, Sylhet, Sibsagar and Nowgong districts show a great
decrease in the number of operations performed, so also do
the Naga Hills, and the extent of the decrease in some of
these districts, notably Sibsagar and Nowgong, is a matter for grave anxiety.
Naga Hills.
12. The number of vaccinations fell from an average of about 10,800 to 7,677, but
the cause of the decrease here is readily explicable ; there
had been a bad epidemic of small-pox in 1894 and 1895,
and the people got thoroughly frightened, and as a former Deputy Commissioner of the
district informs me, whole villages were vaccinated at one time; the number therefore
reported in 1805—6—7—8 were higher than could possibly be kept up, and as the birth
rate is low, the numbers of operations performed in those years may probably not be
again reached for a long time.
Darrang.
13. Here the decrease was from 14,135 to 12,537 : the Civil Surgeon reports that
in his opinion it was probably due to an epidemic of small-
pox making the people distrust, and become averse to,
vaccination. In the Khasi and Naga Hills an outbreak of small-pox produced exactly
opposite results, and I hope to see more work done in this district next season.
Goalpara.
14. This district shows a greater fall, viz., from 26,702 to 19,855 ; the people
suffered a good deal towards the end of 1897, and the birth-
rate fell considerably, 20,410 births being reported in 1897,
and only 17,268 in 1898. If the total of births were really only a little more than seven .
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