( 23 )
Civil Surgeons—concluded.
DISTRICT.
1
Bankura
...
...
Manbhum ... ...
Dinajpur ... ...
Birbhum ... ...
Darjeeling ...
Balasore
...
...
Jalpaiguri ... ...
Champaran
...
Chittagong ... ...
Howrah
...
...
Chittagong
Hill
Tracts.
24-Parganas ...
Nadia
...
...
Angul
...
...
Murshidabad ...
Backerguuge ...
Faridpur ... ...
Cuttack ... ...
Calcutta
...
...
Name of Civil Surgeon.
2
Assistant Surgeon Saroda Prasad
Das.
Dr. P. A. Rigby
...
...
Captain R. M. Blaker ... ...
Assistant Surgeon
Surendro
Nath Neogi.
Lieutenant-Colonel J. Lewtas
for three months and Captain
C. R. Stevens for three months ;
and Civil Medical Officer of
Kurseong and Assistant Sur-
geon of Siliguri.
Dr. W. A. Williams
...
...
Dr. Hedley Wood
...
...
Assistant Surgeon Nimai Chand
Chatterji for three months and
Lieutenant-Colonel T. Grainger
for three months.
Major F. J. Drury
...
...
Major E. H. Brown for one
month and Lieutenant-Colonel
E. Bovill for five months.
Assistant Surgeon Umea Chandra
Das.
Major D. G. Crawford ... ...
Major P. C. Clarkson for three
and a half months and Major
U. N. Mukherji for two and a
half months.
Assistant Surgeon Satis Chandra
Mukherji.
Major J. H. Tull Walsh ... ...
Assistant Surgeon Bolai Chandra
Sen for half a month and Dr.
St. John Moses for five and
a half months.
Assistant Surgeon P. M. Gupta for
one and a half months, Assis-
tant Surgeon Kasi Nath Guose
for one and a half months and
Dr. Fink for three months.
Lieutenant-Colonel J. M. Zorab
Dr. J. Neild Cook ... ...
Number or villages in
his jurisdiction.
3
5,497
8,317
7,232
3,196
1,319
6,311
3,329
5,117
1,234
1,413
1,029
5,701
2,982
1,443
3,627
4,708
4,432
5,429
The whole
town.
Total number of opera-
tions performed in his
jurisdiction.
4
26,281
30,316
45,464
18,319
19,482
50,384
18,329
42,955
56,258
20,444
7,962
43,462
50,352
5,539
39,015
59,729
59,714
56,700
11,535
Number of villages visit-
ed.
5
61
187
117
73
27
138
13
37
33
17
58
63
30
114
25
11
12
2
Nil
Number of operations in-
spected.
6
2,728
2,702
2,695
2,569
2,365
2,071
1,959
1,856
1,736
1,678
1,606
1,462
1,442
1,170
855
501
447
67
Nil
Number of operations
found to have been suc-
cessfully vaccinated.
7
2,712
2,591
2,596
2,544
2,351
2,033
1,869
1,655
1,697
1,672
1,605
1,453
1,428
1,150
708
407
429
63
Nil
Proportion of operations
inspected to total number
of operations performed
in his jurisdiction.
8
10.38
8.91
5.92
14.02
12.13
4.11
10.68
4.32
3.08
8.20
20.17
3.36
2.86
21.12
2.19
.83
.74
.11
Nil
Proportion of successful
operations to total num-
ber of operations inspect-
ed.
99.41
95.89
96.32
9.02
99.4
.16
95.40
9.1
97.75
99.64
99.93
99.38
90.02
98.29
82.80
81.23
95.97
94.03
Nil
It will be seen that Dacca, which stood second in the list in 1897-98, again
heads it with 10,425 inspections. The number of inspections in 1897-98 was,
however, much larger, being 15,162. Purnea, which stood low in the list last
year, now comes up second, while Muzaffarpur, which was first, has now gone
down to nineteenth. Only two Civil Surgeons inspected more than 10,000
operations, against 5 in the previous year, while 7 against 9 inspected from
5,000 to 10,000. It seems to me that the variation in the number of inspec-
tions in any particular district from year to year depends, to a great extent,
on the energy or inactivity shown by individual officers. In paragraph 13 of
the Government Resolution on the vaccination report for 1897-98 the large