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and Jagcherra gardens, only 103 were reported to have been successful. As the lymph
supplied from the Shillong depôt was reported by all Civil Surgeons to have been
excellent, the very poor results obtained in these gardens could not have been due to
bad lymph. Excluding these 2,398 cases, the percentage of successful operations
among the other 13,876 vaccinations, done by tea-garden agencies, was 96.35.
Total number of vaccinations done
in each district.
9. The following table gives the amount of work done by all agencies in the
Province during the years 1895-96 and 1896-97 :—
Table showing the amount of vaccination work done by all agencies in each district during the
years 1895-96 and 1896-97.
District.
1
Cachar
.....
Sylhet
.....
Goalpara
.....
Kamrup
.....
Darrang
.....
Nowgong
.....
Sibsagar
.....
Lakhimpur
.....
Naga Hills
.....
Khasi and Jaintia Hills
...
Garo Hills
.....
North Lushai Hills
...
Manipur
.....
Tea-gardens, by garden agency
TOTAL .
Total number vaccinated.
1895-96.
2
10,045
75,712
14,307
29,818
14,201
12,776
33,312
16,280
10,889
3,899
5,286
424
17,319
16,422
260,690
1896-97.
3
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
Difference.
Increase.
4
641
5,354
4,779
...
...
431
7,971
...
669
1,091
3,054
342
...
...
24,332
Decrease.
5
...
...
...
4,298
2,404
...
...
2,865
...
...
...
...
611
148
10,326
Actual
increase
over the
previous
year.
6
14,006
The table shows that 274,696 vaccinations were done by all agencies during the
year, as against 260,690 done in 1895-96, an increase of 14,006 operations. This is
the largest number of vaccinations done in any year in Assam, and in 1895-96, 35,747
more vaccinations were done than in any previous year. As compared with 1895-96,
there was an increase in the number of operations done in all districts, with the exception
of Kamrup, Darrang, Lakhimpur and Manipur.
Districts in which the greatest in-
crease occurred.
10. In the year 1895-96, 11,423 more vaccinations were done in the Sibsagar Dis-
trict than in the previous year, and 7,971 more operations
were done during the year under review in that district than
were done during 1895-96, and 88.47 per 1,000 of the population were successfully
vaccinated. Small-pox was prevalent in this district in 1896, and much credit is due to
Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel Borah and his subordinates for the large number of vaccin-
ations which they performed. I inspected a considerable number of vaccinations when
I visited the district in February 1897, and found that the operations had been carefully
done. The increase in the number of operations done in the Sylhet, Goalpara, and
Garo Hills Districts, 5,354, 4,779, and 3,054, respectively, was also very satisfactory.
Districts in which the greatest
decrease occurred.
11. There were 4,298 fewer vaccinations done in the Kamrup District than in the
previous year. The Civil Surgeon reported that the de-
crease was due to paid vaccinators having been employed,
instead of licensed men. In the Sibsagar district, in which there are 162 inhabitants per
square mile, 21 paid vaccinators did 36,851 vaccinations, as against 23,334 vaccinations
done by 30 paid vaccinators in the Kamrup District, in which the average population
per square mile is 179. The Mahapurushias, in the Barpeta Sub-division of the Kamrup
District, strongly object to vaccination. Only 256 vaccinations were done by the
establishments of the ten dispensaries of this district during the year under review. As
compared with the previous year, the amount of work done in the Lakhimpur and Darrang
districts was also unsatisfactory, 2,865 fewer operations having been performed in the
former and 2,404 fewer in the latter district than in 1895-96.