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Primary vaccinations done success-
fully at different age periods.
12. Excluding work done by the tea-garden agencies, and 124 vaccinations done
by the dispensary establishment of the Darrang District,
regarding whom the Civil Surgeon failed to obtain the
necessary information, 45,865 infants under one year of age, 145.955 children between
the ages of one and six years, and 52,618 persons over six years of age were successfully
vaccinated during the year for the first time, as against 47,176 infants, 131,507 children
between the ages of one and six years, and 52,822 persons over six years of age success-
fully vaccinated for the first time in 1895-96.
Percentages found successful by
inspecting officers.
13. The particulars of vaccinations verified by inspecting officers is given in State-
ment No. V. Excluding 16,274 operations done by tea-
garden agencies, 258,422 persons were vaccinated during
the year, and of these, 20,630 were inspected by Civil Surgeons and 157,386 by Native
Inspectors of Vaccination. Civil Surgeons found that 98.38 per cent. of the 20,630
vaccinations inspected by them were successful, and of the 157,386 operations in-
spected by the Native Inspectors, 153,728, or 97.68 per cent., were successful. Vaccin-
ators reported that 97.58 per cent. of the primary operations done by them were suc-
cessful, a proportion slightly less than that found by Native Inspectors, and distinctly
less than that found by Civil Surgeons, to be successful. During the previous year
Civil Surgeons inspected 29,886 and Native Inspectors 158,915 operations, so that
during the year under review 9,256 fewer operations were inspected by Civil Surgeons
and 1,529 fewer by Native Inspectors than during 1895-96. The largest number of
inspections, 3,379, was made by Surgeon-Major Dobson, the Civil Surgeon of the Goal-
para District. The Civil Surgeons of Sibsagar and Lakhimpur inspected 3,212 and
2,714 operations, respectively. Surgeon-Major Fink inspected 2,506 out of the 8,340
vaccinations done in the Garo Hills District. Very few operations were inspected by
the Civil Medical Officers of the Cachar and Nowgong districts. The Civil Medical
Officer of the Cachar District was in medical charge of the wing of the 17th Bengal
Infantry, at Silchar, during a portion of the vaccinating season, and the Civil Medical
Officer of Nowgong met with an accident in February 1897 and was unable to do any
inspection work during the remainder of the vaccinating season. Only seventeen vac-
cinations were inspected by the Civil Surgeon of the Naga Hills District.
Percentage of work of licensed
vaccinators found successful.
14. The following table gives the number of operations, done by licensed vaccina-
tors, inspected by Civil Surgeons and Native Inspectors
during the year.
Table showing the number of licensed vaccinators' operations inspected by the Civil Surgeons and
Native Inspectors during the year 1896-97.
District.
1
Goalpara .
Kamrup ..
Sibsagar ..
TOTAL .
Total number of vaccinations.
2
17,289
1,930
3,891
23,110
Number of vaccina-
tions inspected.
By Civil Surgeons.
3
2,725
...
1,005
3,730
By Native Inspectors.
4
8,684
1,006
3,891
13,581
17,311
Number of vaccina-
tions found successful.
By Civil Surgeons.
5
2,629
...
997
3,626
By Native Inspectors.
6
8,625
1,003
3,867
13,495
17,121
Number of
vaccinations
found unsuc-
cessful.
By Civil Surgeons.
7
96
...
8
104
By Native Inspectors.
8
59
3
24
86
190
Percentage of suc-
cessful cases actually
verified by inspec-
tion.
By Civil Surgeons
9
96.48
...
99.20
97.21
By Native Inspectors.
10
99.32
99.70
59.38
99.37
98.90