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ABSTRACTS OF REPORTS OF CIVIL SURGEONS.
years become an institution. There is no active opposition to vaccination. Inoculation
is still practised in many parts of the district. There was very little small-pox in 1872.
Bograh district
Number vaccinated.
Bograh District.—Mr. Lyons states that the Bograh municipality engaged two vaccina-
tors on Rs. 10 and 8, from 1st January to 31st March. The town and suburbs were
divided into two sections and one assigned to each. The civil surgeon inspected the work
five times. 1,543 persons are said to have been vaccinated, with a percentage of success of
92.99. There is no opposition to vaccination. Mr. Lyons is unable to say whether inocu-
lation is much practised. Very little small-pox prevailed during the year. No vaccination
was performed at the branch dispensaries.
Pubua district.
Pubna District.—Mr. Davis reports that the municipalities of Pubna and Serajgunge
entertain each a vaccinator on Rs. 7 and 10 a month during the vaccinating season; the former
vaccinated 78 persons, and the latter 1,267. The sub-assistant surgeon and compounder at
Doolye vaccinated 34. The proceedings were neither systematic nor exhaustive. Mr. Davis
frequently inspected the work. The lymph supplied from Calcutta failed in the first
instance. This retarded the work greatly. The people manifest a passive rather than an
active resistance. Inoculation is extensively practised. The sub-assistant surgeon of
Doolye reports two deaths from the practice. One inoculator was taught vaccination at
Serajgunge. Cases of small-pox occurred in isolated villages, but there was no epidemic.
ORISSA.
Cuttack district.
Cuttack District.—Dr. Cayley reports that two vaccinators paid by Government at the
rate of Rs. 10 per mensem work from October to March in and around Cuttack. They were
very indifferent men, and only vaccinated 307 persons, of whom 166 were successful. The
native doctor at Sajepore vaccinated 41 cases. The work was desultory and confined to the
lowest classes. Dr. Cayley frequently inspected it. There is much opposition to vaccina-
tion, and inoculation is general. Many families adopt no preventive against small-pox, and
prefer on principle to receive small-pox in the natural way. 444 deaths from small-pox were
reported by the police. Dr. Cayley does not anticipate any substantial progress in vacci-
nation until a regular vaccine establishment is organised.
Pooree district.
Pooree District.—Dr. Meredith reports that one vaccinator is employed, who vaccinated
154 cases,—148 successfully. The work was desultory, and frequently inspected by the civil
surgeon. Vaccination is much opposed, more especially by the Ooryas, and inoculation
generally practised. Small-pox did not prevail epidemically. The police reported 83 deaths.
Balasore district.
Balasore District.—Mr. Richards reports that three vaccinators were employed during
the year,—two at Balasore paid by Government, at Rs. 10 and 7 each, from October to
March; one at Bhuddruck, paid by the dispensary at Rs. 10 a month, from January to March.
They vaccinated 505 persons,—363 successfully. The work was desultory. The sivil sur-
geon inspected it frequently. There is much opposition to vaccination, and inoculation is
very generally practised. Mr. Richards ascertained that 29 deaths occurred among 1,317
inoculated in the town, or 2.70 per cent. No epidemic of small-pox occurred. 70 deaths
were reported by the police.
DACCA CIRCLE.
EASTERN DISTRICTS—DACCA DIVISION.
Dacca district.
Dacca District.—Dr. Wise reports that six vaccinators—three paid by Government
and three by the municipality—have been at work within municipal limits during the past
season. Two thousand nine hundred and thirty-four persons were vaccinated, with a per-
centage of success of 92.9 against 1,925, and 97.6 in 1871-72. The town was divided
into three areas, and two vaccinators appointed to each. The Mataban of the various
mahallahs were appealed to for aid. The report proceeds :—
Result of inspec-
tion.
Inoculators.
" The children were visited either by the civil surgeon or house surgeon.
Although
the vesicle generally ran a regular course, the subsequent cicatrix was not in many cases
perfectly satisfactory. Vaccination was confined within municipal boundaries. It cannot
be said that any part of the city has been thoroughly vaccinated. In every mahalldh
there are families, hardened in their own belief, who refuse to allow their children to be
operated on. Vaccination is submitted to as the poor cannot help themselves ; but if the
Inoculation Act did not exist, the large majority would revert to inoculation. No new facts
have been added to those already reported in former years on the subject of the preva-
lence or effect of inoculation. One or two inoculators have applied for vaccine matter, and