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pox in 1879 is 2,003, being in the ratio of 3.75 per 1,000 of population; in the town of Dharmkot,
where great opposition has always been encountered, the ratio of deaths per 1,000 rose to 9.14.
JULLUNDUR DISTRICT.
13. This, the next district undertaken, was entered on in the first week in March. The local
native superintendent and his vaccinators had been at work here since the beginning of the season, and
the tahsíls of Jullundur and Nawashahr alone remained to be done. The out-turn of work fell very
much under that accomplished in former years: for example in 1874-75, the total number vaccinated
in the tahsíls of Jullundur and Nawashahr, which having then been vaccinated under European super-
vision, may be taken as a standard of comparison, was 9,720, and 8,404, respectively; whereas in the
past season the total numbers amounted to but 5,481, and 3,224,—a decrease of a little over 50 per cent.
The main cause of this shortcoming will doubtless be found in the excessive fever prevalence which
for the last four or five years has been especially fatal in this district: at the same time it must be
admitted that in many places the work was hindered by opposition, and great numbers of children fit to
undergo the operation were not brought forward. This table shows the results obtained throughout
the district:—
Statement No. VIII.
Tahsíl.
Jullundur
...
...
...
Nawashahr ... ... ...
Phillour
...
...
...
Nakodar ... ... ...
Total ...
Total number
vaccinated.
5,481
3,224
1,958
5,490
16,153
Ratio of suc-
cessful cases
per 1,000 of
population.
20.16
16.95
11.35
28.31
19.48
The total number of persons vaccinated was
16,153, and the ratio of success in primary cases was
96.23 ; in Jullundur town with its suburbs 930, and
in cantonments 260 were vaccinated, as compared
with 1,837, and 817, the numbers vaccinated in
1874-75; again, in the towns of Nakodar and Ráhon
the total numbers vaccinated were 255 and 247, as
against 912 and 687 in 1874-75. In the tahsíl of
Phillour only that portion which had remained un-
covered at the end of the preceding season was this
year undertaken. The number of deaths recorded
from small-pox throughout the district in 1879 was
1,010, being in the ratio of 1.29 per 1,000 of popu-
lation.
HOSHIARPUR DISTRICT
14. Garshankar and Unah were the only tahsíls visited by the staff under my direct superin-
tendence, the other two tahsíls, Hoshiárpur and Dasúya, having previously been overtaken by the Local
Native Superintendent. Introduced into this district in 1865, vaccination had in subsequent years
apparently become so popular with the people that they were supposed to have been completely won
over to the cause; and that, after having experienced the benefits of the operation so largely, any
considerable portion of the community would turn against it, or lose faith in it, was hardly to be expect-
ed. It was, therefore, somewhat disappointing to find in many parts of the Garshankar tahsíl, the
majority of the lumberdars and villagers of the better class expressing a want of confidence, and assert-
ing that great numbers of children, after having undergone succesful vaccination, had subsequently died
from small-pox. These statements, on consulting the death registers of the villages in which the
successfully-vaccinated children were said to have died from small-pox, were found to be pure fabri-
cations ; and further, on examining children with recent marks of small-pox, said to be post vaccinae,
I found that they had never undergone vaccination. Shortly before my arrival in the district, a gang
of inoculators had been at work over a large tract of country, and there can be little doubt that they
had been the means of shaking the confidence of the people, and of giving rise to the opposition met
with. The results obtained throughout the district are here given :—
Statement No. IX.
Tahsíl..
Hoshiárpur
...
...
...
Dasúya
...
...
...
...
Una
...
...
...
...
Garhshankar
...
...
...
Total ...
Total number
vaccinated.
2,696
4,606
5,054
5,855
18,211
Ratio of suc-
cessful cases
per 1,000 of
population.
10.53
17.82
23.10
25.06
18.79
This statement, compared with the returns of
former years, shows a very low ratio—18.79 per 1,000
of population. It must, however, be borne in mind
that the falling off is partly due, although in a less
degree, to the causes mentioned as having brought
about the shortcoming in the neighbouring district
of Jullundur. The very low ratios exhibited by the
tahsíls of Hoshiárpur and Dasúya point to a want of
energy on the part of the Local Native Superinten-
dent and his vaccinators, who worked there during the
earlier part of the season. The total number vaccina-
ted was 18,211, of which in primary operations 97.24
per cent. were successful. The number of deaths re¬
corded from small-pox in 1879 was 2,028, being at the
rate of 2.16 per 1,000 of population.