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Kumaon ... ...
Rohilkhund, ... ...
Agra and Meerut, ...
...
Allahabad,
... ...
Benares,
...
...
Under
one year.
27,692
25 991
31,276
18,744
4,560
Over
one year.
8,620
58 236
65,370
39,415
39,264
Percentage.
Under
76.26
30.86
32.37
32.23
10.41
Over
23.74
69.14
67.63
67.77
89.59
13. Another point to which your attention should be drawn is the
proportionate age at which vaccination is performed. Of the
3,19,168 primary
operations of the
year, only 34 per
cent. were per¬
formed on children
under 1 year old.
In the previous
year the percent-
age had been 30. But it will be seen from the figures in the margin that
the proportion varies much in different Divisions and circles. In Kumaon
alone the vaccination of children naturally preponderates greatly, and
this is the normal state to which every Division should reach, when pro-
tection is so nearly complete, and confidence in the prophylactic so well
established, as it is in Kumaon. In Benares, on the other hand, the pro-
portion is vastly less than elsewhere, and efforts should be made to as-
certain the reason why the operation is so seldom performed there on
young children.
14. The Inspector General of Hospitals, in his report on the Luna-
tic Asylums, Vaccination and Dispensaries for 1870, dwells on the valua-
ble and important results that would flow from a " vaccine census" of
Schools and Jails, that is, an inspection of the prisoners and scholars to
see how many of them were protected by vaccination or by having had
small-pox, and how many were unprotected. The Lieutenant Governor
considers the suggestion one that might possibly lead to valuable results,
and would desire you to enter into communication with the Inspector
General of Jails and the Director of Public Instruction, in order
to ascertain whether there would be any objection to such an in-
spection, and whether the information could be readily and accurately
recorded. By a repetition of it at intervals, and by a comparison of the
results, a sound method of ascertaining the progress of vaccination
in the Province might be secured, But, especially in the village schools,
it would be necessary to avoid anything in the inspection that might occa-
sion distrust or suspicion of our motives—feelings with which the people
are always too ready to view our efforts in respect of vaccination..
Bijnore, ...
Moradabad, ...
Bareilly,
...
Shahjehanpore, ...
Saharunpore,
...
Moozuffernugger,
...
Budaon,
...
Meerut,
...
Cawnpore,
...
6,881
4,406
4,257
3,506
4,896
4,006
1,245
1,183
1,146
15. The deaths from small-pox recorded in the year by the Mor-
tuary Registrars were 37,994, an increase
over the year 1870-71, when they were only
23,564. The districts where most deaths
occurred are shown in the margin. No other
district rose above 1,000 deaths. April, May,
and June were the worst months, and May
was the most fatal of all. This is a point which ought specially to interest
Superintendents of Vaccination, who should record in their reports the
localities where the epidemic was most wide spread, and should try to
ascertain its immediate cause, and whether it can be connected with any
weakness of the protecting establishment, or any special unwillingness of
the people to accept the prophylactic. Dr. Pringle is the only Superin¬