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The ratios of success in Municipalities were 95.09 per cent. for primary
operations and 48.98 per cent. for revaccinations as compared with 96.24 per
cent. and 51.15 per cent. respectively last year. The number of operations
performed in rural areas was 997,578 as compared with 963,543 last year and
the ratios of successes were 99.15 per cent. for primary operations and 62.23
for revaccinations.
Patna Division.
3. Vaccination in Districts.—Of the three districts of the Patna Division,
Shahabad reported a large increase in the
number of operations performed (20,229)
whilst Patna reported a small increase and Gaya a decrease of over 5,000.
Small-pox was prevalent during the year in Gaya.
Tirhut Division.
There was a general moderate increase in the number of operations
reported from all the districts of the
Tirhut Division.
Bhagalpur Division.
The districts of the Bhagalpur Division also recorded small increases
except Monghyr, in which district consi-
derable difficulty was experienced in
carrying out the work of vaccination owing to non-co-operation propaganda.
Orissa Division.
With the exception of Angul all the districts of Orissa recorded increases
in the number of operations, the
greatest increase being in Puri.
Chota Nagpur Division.
There was a general fall in the number of operations returned from the
districts of Chota Nagpur, the greatest
decrease being in Manbhum (18,306).
4. Vaccination in Towns and Compulsory Areas.—During the year under
report the Vaccination Acts were extended to Husainabad Union in Palamau.
Statement VII shows that during the year, 17,066 children under one
year of age, out of an available number of 28,705 or 59.45 per cent. were
successfully vaccinated.
The towns of Monghyr, Bhagalpur (again) and Darbhanga (again) show
the smallest proportion of work done, and the towns of Chapra, Purnea
Cuttack, Balasore and Hazaribagh have also given unsatisfactory returns.
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.
Both vaccination and to a large extent revaccination are practically
compulsory in the majority of these States.
During the year under report 201,433 primary operations and 348,149
revaccinations were performed as compared with 315,878 and 364,225
respectively in the previous year. As the total population of the Feudatory
States is under four millions, these figures are rather extraordinary when
compared with the provincial figures, which show a total of roughly one million
forty-one thousand operations performed amongst a population of 34,489,846.
The number of children born each year in the Feudatory States may be
estimated roughly at two lakhs, and of these a considerable number, certainly
over 60,000, died in infancy.
6. Protection of infants.—During the year under report the number of
children under one year available for vaccination was 978,806 and the number
of successful operations was 377,981 equal to 386 per thousand, against 327,955
or 391 per thousand successful operations out of 838,706 children available
during the previous year. The protection of infants in Municipalities is
separately shown in Statement VII. It gives a ratio of 594 per thousand of
the surviving infant population as compared with 743 in the previous year.
These figures are unsatisfactory as they show that more than half the total
number of operations are performed on children over one year of age whilst
the ratio of protected children under one year of age has fallen to below 50