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with less opposition than in any other Division of the Province and is carried
out more thoroughly.
Bhagalpur Division.
The Bhagalpur Division shows the worst record of the three Divisions of
Bihar. In all the four districts there has
been a serious decrease in the number of
operations performed, the falling off amounting to 33,387 operations in the
Santal Parganas, 17,382 in Monghyr, 16,971 in Bhagalpur, and 7,320 in
Purnea during the three years' period.
Orissa Division.
In the Orissa Division the decrease in the number of operations performed
during the last three years has been
large, amounting to 138,464 in Cuttack,
78,310 in Balasore, 51,679 in Puri, and 11,617 in Sambalpur. In Angul alone
has there been an increase amounting to 6,728. I have reason to believe that
the returns from the Orissa Districts from 1909 up to 1911 were largely ficti-
tious. A special campaign was being pressed during these years by the Sani-
tary Commissioner, Bengal, and the returns went up by leaps and bounds to
figures which showed a vaccination ratio very largely in excess of the birth-
rates. Whilst I do not consider that there has been an actual decrease in the
work to any thing like the extent which would appear from the figures quoted,
nevertheless I am dissatisfied with the work of the Vaccination Department in
Orissa and I have taken action against the Inspecting Officers who are chiefly
responsible for bad work.
Chota Nagpur Division.
In four out of the five districts (Palamau being the exception) there were
small decreases in the number of opera-
tions performed, amounting to 7,020 in
Ranchi and 6,177 in Hazaribagh and to smaller numbers in other districts.
Act II of 1911 and Act V of 1880 were enforced at Sakchi and in the
Mining Settlement area at Jharia during the period under review and there
has been no difficulty in getting the work of compulsory vaccination efficiently
carried out.
General.
In the Orissa and Bhagalpur Divisions there has been a serious decrease
in the amount of work and departmental action has already been taken to deal
with the staff. In the other three Divi-
sions of Patna, Tirhut and Chota Nagpur,
the results have been fairly satisfactory during the last three years. In my
opinion it is probable that the recently introduced methods of checking vacci-
nators' work and returns in absolute detail have had a considerable influence
in reducing the numbers of reported operations. But there is no doubt but
that there is still scope for a considerable increase in the amount of work
actually done and I accordingly arranged to increase the number of vaccinators
in the Province in September 1916, and to supply a larger quantity of vaccine
than had been issued in the previous years.
If necessary, I propose to extend those measures further and I anticipate
that some results should become apparent by next year.
4. Vaccination in towns and compulsory areas.—During the triennial
period under review the Vaccination Acts were extended to the Patna and
Phulwari thanas of Patna, to the Mining Settlement area of Jharia, and to
Sakchi and Padma. Statement VII shows the details of Municipal vaccination
from which it appears that in Bhagalpur and Darbhanga the work has been
consistently bad and that it has been unsatisfactory in several of the other
large towns. On the other hand, in several municipalities, noticeably in
Cuttack, more children were vaccinated than were recorded as being
available.
5. Work done in the Native States under the supervision of the Political
Agent.—Vaccination work in the Orissa Feudatory States has steadily developed
during recent years under the direction and encouragement of the Political
Agent.