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while under instruction, moderate rewards assigned to those who do really
well and above all systematic inspection provided.
Vaccination where
inoculation
has
been abolished.
69. Vaccination in localities where inoculation has been prohibited.—Last
year an elaborate memorandum was drawn up by Dr. K. Macleod on the effect
of the prohibition of inoculation in various parts of these provinces. In
March of this year (Bengal Government endorsement No. 972, dated 10th
March 1873) I was requested to report how far the prohibited areas are now
protected by vaccination, taking them geographically district by district. I
informed Government that I purposed to embody the subject in the annual
report, and I now proceed to offer a few remarks on it. The following table
enumerates the prohibited areas, and shows their population, what provision has
been made to vaccinate them, and how much vaccination has been performed
during the last season and within the last ten years, and in comparison with
what appears on theoretical grounds to be necessary.
STATEMENT No. VIII.
LOCALITY.
Calcutta and Suburbs .. ..
Howrah .. .. .. ..
Deoghur .. .. .. ..
Kishnaghur .. .. .. ..
Burdwan
..
.. .. ..
Hooghly .. .. .. ..
Serampore ..
..
..
..
Ooterparah .. .. .. ..
Berhampore, .. .. .. ..
Moorshedabad .. .. ..
Jamalpore .. .. .. ..
Dacca .. .. .. ..
Darjeeling, ... .. .. ..
Patna .. .. .. ..
Dinapore, .. .. .. ..
Chuprah .. .. .. ..
Arrah,
..
.
.
..
Mozufferpore. . .. .. ..
Dmbungah
.. .. ..
Gyah and Sahibgunge .. ..
Chota Nagpore .. ..
Bhagulpore .. .. ..
Midnapore
.
.. .. ..
Jungepore, .. .. .. ..
Kandhi,
.
. . . .. .. ..
Comillah .. .. .. ..
Metropolitan circles, .. ..
POPULATION
704,750
87,784
4,000
36,750
32,321
34,761
24,440
4,389
27,110
46,182
10,453
60,212
3,157
158,900
12,974
46,287
39,386
38,223
47,450
66,843
3,450,023
69,678
31,217
11,361
12,016
12,948
7,539,278
NUMBER OF VACCINATORS
THEORETICALLY NECES¬
SARY *
42
6
1
2
2
2
2
1
2
3
1
4
1
9
1
3
2
2
3
4
69
4
2
1
1
1
151
NUMBER ACTUALLY
EMPLOYED IN 1872-73.
30
1
?
1
3
1
1
.. 3
3
4‡ 6
1
6
1
9
3
3
2
2
130
2
1
1
1
2
128
NUMBER OF SUCCESSFUL
VACCINATIONS THEORCTICAL¬
LY NECCESSARY†
21,142
2,933
120
802
969
1,042
733
131
813
1,358
313
2,076
34
4,767
389
1,388
1,181
1,146
1,423
2,005
103,500
2,090
936
340
420
388
226,178
NUMBER SUCCESSFULLY
VACCINATED DURING
1872-73.
14,357
1,551
?
498
48
1,765
858
..
1,470
628
1,340
2,686
1,171
9,218
216
1,740
2,374
3,300
442
403
58,018
603
1,190
346
277
260
275,915
TOTAL NUMBER VACCINATED
DURING THE PREVIOUS
10 YEARS
438,337
27,359
.... 5,307
3,823
22,960
7 years
3,981
...
4 years
3,318
8,199
....
20,229
8 years
13,768
39,386
7 years
1,664
10,725
9 years
8,976
21,432
3 years
2,971
2,001
171,650
3,112
108,620
4 years
866
5 years
1,122
2,981
5 years
783,198
* 1 for every 16,666 of a town population and 50,000 of a rural population, a vaccinator being supposed to do 500 vaccinations
in the former case, and 1,500 in the latter
† 30 per 1,000 of population.
‡ and Monohyr.
Basis of estimate.
Localities where vac-
cination is insuffi-
cient
The basis on which the estimate laid down in this statement is made, is a
very moderate one. Each vaccinator has been considered equal to the success-
ful vaccination of 500 persons annually in a town, and 1,500 in a rural district.
Practically this rate is exceeded in most cases, and should be considered a
minimum rather than an average. The numbers shown in the two last columns
are not to be taken as in every case rigidly confined within the limits of the
operation of the Act. On the whole, the staff and number of successful vacci-
nations appear to be sufficient. The places, which demand particular notice, are,
Calcutta, Howrah, Deoghur, Kishnaghur, Burdwan, Ooterparah, Moorshedabad,
Dinapore, Durbungah, Chota Nagpore, and Bhaugulpore. The circumstances
of Calcutta have been already specially discussed. Howrah is within the
metropolitan circles, and the work of the municipal vaccinator is confined
strictly to the town, whose population does not exceed 35,000. The vaccination
of Deoghur has not been separately shown in the returns submitted by the
Sonthal Pergunnahs. The surroundings of Kishnaghur and Burdwan are
vaccinated by the staff of the metropolitan circles. The amount of vacci-
nation performed in Kishnaghur is evidently inadequate, and in Burdwan
glaringly and dangerously so. Ooterparah is periodically vaccinated by the