ABSTRACTS OF REPORTS OF CIVIL SURGEONS.
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Durbungah.
Number vaccinated.
Durbungah.—Sub-assistant
surgeon Kally Coomar Mitter reports that two vaccina-
tors are employed at Durbungah, one paid by the municipality and the other by the Estate.
The former was entertained for six months, and the latter for three, each at Rs. 10. A third
man, who had been an inoculator, also vaccinated, charging fees. Four hundred and ninety
vaccinations were performed, 442 successfully. The work was seen twice a week, verified
and tested. Vaccination is not favorably received, and inoculation is generally practised.
A few cases of small-pox and many of chicken-pox occurred during the year.
Mudhoobanee.
Mudhoobanee.—Sub-assistant
surgeon Shib Chunder Bose reports that 222 children
were vaccinated by eight trained inoculators, 200 successfully. They charged four annas for
a male child and two annas for a female. The work was inspected fortnightly, and the entries
in the register verified. Vaccination is opposed, but not so strenuously as formerly. Inocu-
lation is still much practised. Small-pox did not prevail during the year.
Seetamaree.
Seetamaree.—Sub-assistant surgeon Gopal Chunder Bose reports that there is one vac-
cinator on Rs. 10 attached to the dispensary. He vaccinated 129 cases, 119 successfully.
His work was inspected weekly. The people are much against vaccination and inoculation
is the prevailing practice. Inoculators could not be induced to learn vaccination.
Tajpore.
Tajpore.—Native doctor Goury Coomar Mookerjee reports that a temporary vaccinator
was employed for two months. He vaccinated 169 cases, 141 successfully. The work was
inspected by the native doctor, but how often the report does not say. Vaccination is much
opposed, and inoculation generally practised. Small-pox did not prevail during the year.
Hajeepore.
Hajeepore.—Native doctor Umbica Churn Dass reports that 136 persons were vac-
cinated by one vaccinator, 121 successfully. The people are still averse to vaccination, and ino-
culation is the prevailing practice. No epidemic of small-pox prevailed during the year.
Sarun district.
Sarun Distirict.—The operations in and around Chuprah amounted to 1,902 against
1,902 in the previous year.
Dr. Russell reports:—
Staff.
Inspection.
" There is one vaccinator on the dispensary establishment, paid by Government and
entertained throughout the year, at a salary of Rs. 10 per mensem. Two permanent vac-
cinators are paid by the municipality, at Rs. 10 per mensem each. Four vaccinators (temporary)
were paid by the Chuprah municipality, on salaries of Rs. 8 each, from month of December to
end of March. Two vaccinators (temporary) were paid from Revilgunge town fund, on
salaries of Rs. 8 each during the same period. These temporary vaccinators are usually
engaged from the month of November, but not so last year, as the lymph could not be got
to take till early in December. The vaccinators were employed in the towns of Chuprah
and Revilgunge; respective mohullahs being apportioned off to each vaccinator as the area
of his operations. It is not in the power of the civil authorities to aid in the matter of
vaccination, either by " persuasion or general influence," until such time as the procedure is
made compulsory, and the influential natives do not take the least interest in the subject.
The system of providing the vaccinators with purwannahs from the magistrate has been
found to be mischievous and useless. The work of the vaccinators was inspected almost
daily, and Bryces' test was applied occasionally to verify the quality of the vaccine. But
the success attending arm-to-arm vaccination was the best test of the good quality of the
lymph. The amount of work done was somewhat less than that accomplished in the pre-
vious year, owing either to the unsatisfactory character of the lymph received from
Calcutta, or to climatic influences, as it would not take till December. The work was con-
fined principally to the towns of Chuprah and Revilgunge. The feeling of the people is
adverse to vaccination in the district;—somewhat favourable to it in the town of Chuprah.
Inoculation prevails in the district, but is prohibited within the limits of the municipalities.
No facts regarding mortality from inoculation have come to my knowledge.
Ex-inoculators.
" Six inoculators were provided with lymph and crusts after being shown how to vacci-
nate. They one and all promised to send returns, but sent none. These men are not to be
trusted, and until the system of registration is adopted there can be no proper hold on them.
Small-pox.
" No epidemic of small-pox in the district, but in a few places where the disease appeared
the Government and municipal vaccinators employed permanently were dispatched to vacci-
nate in a circle around the infected places, after being provided with purwannahs from the
magistrate ; but in each instance returned without having effected any good, as the people
were not razi; and refused to submit to the procedure.
Employment of in-
oculators.
" I do not approve of employing desi inoculators as vaccinators, except when they can
be made to work immediately under one's eye. My experience of them is, that they are
not to be trusted, as they invariably wish to go to villages in the interior of the district,
where to follow them is frequently a fruitless task, since they mislead one and change