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Meerut Division.
Dehra ...
Saháranpur ...
Muzaffarnagar...
Meerut ...
Bulandshahr ...
Aligarh. ...
33.76
26.83
31.59
32.92
36.31
28.80
Lucknow Division.
Lucknow ...
Unao ...
Bara Banki
...
Sitapur ...
Hardoi ...
Kheri ...
32.18
20.68
18.65
41.65
36.30
27.37
Gorakhpur Division.
Gorakhpur ...
Basti ...
Azamgarh ...
23.72
27.68
18.45
Benares Division.
Benares ...
Jaunpur ...
Mirzapur ...
Gházipur ...
Ballia
26.92
22.20
31.54
26.51
22.73
outside Oudh vaccination was most advanced in the Meerut Division, and
most backward in the Benares and Gorakhpur Divisions and the districts
of Allahabad and Jhánsi. It is still generally true that vaccination
is most advanced in the western districts and in the Lucknow Divi-
sion, and most backward in the eastern part of the Provinces. The
ratio per mille of the population (municipalities being included with
the districts) of successful vaccinations in 1898-99 for the Meerut
and the Lucknow Divisions is
shown in the margin.
Next
to Garhwál (72.22) and Almora
(56.21), the Sitapur district shows
the highest ratio of successful
vaccinations in the Provinces. The figures for the Gorakhpur and
Benares Divisions are margin-
ally noted. The following are
the districts showing a ratio of
less than 20: Farukhabad (19.93),
Bara Banki (18.65), Bánda (18.12),
Allahabad (17.24), and Azamgarh (18.45). No useful comparison
can be made of the figures for 1898-99 with those of 1896-97 and
1897-98, as in both the two earlier years small-pox prevailed suffi-
ciently in the Provinces to cause the vaccination work in many dis-
tricts to be prolonged into the hot weather, which was not the case
in 1898-99. The ratio in the Allahabad district (apart from the munici-
pality) in 1898-99 was only 16.54: the insufficiency of vaccination in
this important district was noticed by the Government in 1896 and
again last year, and, though it is doubtless due in great measure to the
reluctance of the people, the Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Commis-
sioner requests that both the Sanitary Commissioner and the District
Officer will not fail to give the matter serious attention.
4. The prevalence of small-pox in 1896 and 1897 is noticed in
paragraph 9 of the report. In 1896 the incidence of the disease was
heaviest in the Allahabad district, where the death rate caused by it
was 4.1 per mille; in 1897 it was heaviest in the Sultánpur district, the
death rate being 5.98. The provincial death rate in 1897 from small-
pox was 1.86 per mille; the highest previous figure had been 1.26 in
1890 since the time of the epidemic in 1884, when the figure was 4.59.
The diagram annexed to paragraph 10 of the report shows how far less
the ravages of the disease have been since 1884 than they were between
1876 and that date, and encourages the hope that the spread of vaccina-
tion may eventually result in an immunity not much less than that
enjoyed by European countries. In 1898-99 the provincial death rate
from small-pox was .05 per mille, and the rate only rose above 1 in
the districts of Azamgarh, Kheri, and Sultánpur.
5. A comparison of the total number of successful primary
operations in 1896—99 with those in the preceding triennial period
shows a decrease of 5,542. It is noticeable that this results from
decreases (the heaviest being in Aligarh, Agra, and Moradabad)
in the 1st Circle, aggregating 53,983, which were not counterbalanced