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SHORT NOTES ON VACCINATION
FOR THE YEAR
1905-1906.
THE following are brief notes on Vaccination in Bengal for the year
1905-06:—
Officer in charge of the Depart-
ment.
2. I was in charge of the Department throughout the year. There were
three Deputy Sanitary Commissioners under me,
but the number has been reduced to two, owing to
the partition of Bengal. The Presidency, Burdwan
and Orissa Divisions have been placed in charge of one of these officers, who is
now styled Deputy Sanitary Commissioner, Bengal and Orissa Circle. The
other officer, designated Deputy Sanitary Commissioner, Bihar and Chota Nagpur
Circle, is in charge of the Patna, Bhagalpur and Chota Nagpur Divisions. The
former circle was in charge of Captain C. A. Gourlay, I.M.S., from 16th to 22nd
October 1905, and of Captain W. C. Ross, I.M.S., from 23rd October 1905 to
31st March 1906. Captain James Masson, I.M.S., was in charge of the other
circle since its constitution from 16th October 1905 till the end of the year. The
late Metropolitan and Eastern Circle was in charge of Captain C. A. Gourlay,
I.M.S., from 19th May to 15th October 1905. It was without a Deputy Sanitary
Commissioner from 1st April to 18th May 1905. Captain James Masson,
I.M.S., was in charge of the late Northern Circle from 1st April to 15th Octo-
ber 1905 ; while Assistant Surgeon Gopal Chunder Mookerjee was in charge of
the late Western Circle from 1st April to 8th June 1905 and Captain W. C.
Ross, I.M.S., from 9th June to 22nd October 1905.
Strength of Staff.
3. Owing to the partition of Bengal, the staff has been reduced. During
the year under report, it consisted of one Assistant
Surgeon Inspector in charge of the Animal Vac-
cination Depôt, Calcutta, one Inspector in charge of the Darjeeling Animal
Vaccination Depôt, one Special Inspector of Vaccination for the Suburbs
of Calcutta and the town of Howrah, 32 District Inspectors, two Native
Superintendents of Vaccination in the Sambalpur district, 101 Sub-Inspectors
of Vaccination, 15 Vaccinators paid by Government, 257 paid by Municipalities
and District Boards, etc., 1,532 licensed Vaccinators, and 24 subordinate
Supervising Officers paid by Municipalities and Native States. In the Calcutta
Municipality the staff was the same as last year. But 20 temporary Vaccina-
tors were employed to cope with the increased work due to the outbreak of
small-pox epidemic in the town.
General operations.
4. The total number of operations performed in the Province during the
year was 2,041,230 against 1,818,231 of the
previous year. (In comparing the work of the year
1904-05 in this and the subsequent paragraphs of this report, the figures of the
transferred districts have been excluded.) The number of primary and re-
vaccination cases was 1,904,625 and 136,605, respectively, against 1,759,124
and 59,107, respectively, of 1904-05. Altogether there was an increase of
222,999 operations, 145,501 in primary cases and 77,498 in re-vaccination,
which is satisfactory. The large increase in re-vaccination is chiefly due to the
special efforts made by the Corporation of Calcutta to revaccinate as many
persons as possible, owing to the late severe outbreak of small-pox in that
town.
The ratio of success under the two different heads in rural areas and
Municipalities was 99.16 and 66.63, and 98.38 and 65.17, respectivly, against
99 and 56.58 and 98.09 and 62.85, respectively, of 1904-05.