THE METROPOLITAN CIRCLES.
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Then again, one division under head vaccinator Woomesh Chunder Mookerjee of the
third circle, after having established virus in thannah Ghattal, had to withdraw and go else-
where and begin the work afresh in a new field. These and other circumstances were very
discouraging and threatened to interfere with the season's work. But by the use of proper
medicines and by removal to healthier localities, we were able to combat and at last to
overcome the difficulties. Great credit is due to the deputy superintendents who, by their
tact and energy, succeeded in inducing the men to persevere in their work in the midst of
sickness and death.
First Circle
8 The first Metropolitan Circle.—To the deputy superintendent of this circle, Baboo
Ramsoonder Ghose, were assigned six unprotected thannahs in the north-east of Nuddea,
viz. Kaloopole, Chooadangah, Alumdangah, Nowaparrah, Dowlutpore and Bhalooka, with an
area of 602 square miles, and such portions of thannahs Neamutpore and Raneegunge in
Burdwan as had not been done in the previous season. In the six thannahs of Nuddea,
607 villages were visited, and 54,840 persons vaccinated. Now the population of these six
thannahs, according to the census report of 1872, is 3,62,704. Taking 30 as the average
number of births per 1,000, it will give (taking the figure at 3,63,000) 10,890 children born
annually, whereas the number vaccinated is 54,840, or five times the number of births; in
other words, all the children born within the last five years have been vaccinated. But as
inoculation has been prohibited in the metropolitan circles only since October 1871, that is,
for the two last seasons, the number of newly-born children would be 21,780. Subtracting
this from the number of vaccinations, there would be left 33,060, a very large number, which
would represent the unprotected adult and juvenile population brought under the influence
of vaccination during the year. And such is really the case. With the exception of one
or two solitary villages here and there, and a few children whose numbers could be counted
on the fingers, all that portion of the country has been thoroughly vaccinated.
Thannah Kooshtea was revisited, and 2,742 persons vaccinated.
Thannah Coomerkhally was transferred to Nuddea in the course of last year, but this
fact was not known to the department till very late in the season. Still a good beginning
has been made, 47 villages were visited and 4078 persons vaccinated. Some border villages
in the district of Jessore have also been vaccinated; 47 villages were visited and 2613
persons vaccinated.
In Thannah Neamutpore, Burdwan, 147 villages were visited, and 10,307 persons vacci-
nated. About one-half of this thannah was done last year, and this year the remaining
unprotected portion has been vaccinated; so the whole thannah is now thoroughly protected,
the population being 71,453. After finishing Neamutpore, the gang crossed the rivers
Burrakhur and Damooda, and vaccinated in the border villages of Maunbhoom. Altogether
90 villages were visited, and 5,603 persons vaccinated.
Area vaccinated
The total area of country vaccinated by the first circle is 925 square miles, in which
1085 villages were visited.
Number vaccinated.
The total number vaccinated by the first circle is 83,807 of which 83,635 were suc-
cessful.
The deputy superintendent inspected 59,660 or 71.2 per cent.
Protection afforded.
The following table shews at a glance the protection existing in the thannahs visited
by the first circle.
Districts
NUDDEA.
BURDWAN
Total
Names of thannahs
Kaloopole .. .. ..
Chooadangah .. .. ..
Alumdangah .. .. ..
Nowparrah .. .. ..
Dowlutpore .. .. ..
Bhalooka .. .. ..
Koosteah .. .. ..
Neamutpore .. ..
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Population.
34,873
20,674
87,335
85,055
97,697
37,088
22,307
71,453
456,482
Number vaccinated
in 1872-73.
4,016
1,754
10,611
14,246
17,183
7,030
2,742
10,307
67,889
Number vaccinated
in previous years.
12
....
583
....
122
1,505
8,000
10,222
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