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The increase is specially noticeable in the districts of Jessore and Bala¬
sore, and in the district of the Sonthal Parganas, where calf vaccination
was practised for the first time, very satisfactory results were obtained
through the personal exertion of the Civil Medical Officer, Dr. Kelly. The
Civil Surgeons of these districts deserve credit for the successful results
attained in them. No explanation has been furnished by the local officers of
the marked decrease of operations in Backerguuge, Jalpaiguri and Cuttack.
In Purnea 4,766 operations were performed direct from the calf in 1897-98,
but in 1898-99 no calf was vaccinated in the. district. This is very unsatis-
factory. The Civil Surgeon has been asked for an explanation in the matter.
In some districts it is difficult to get calves on hire free of cost, and a
small number of these animals can only be vaccinated in them. If Munici-
palities and District Boards can be induced to make certain grants for this
purpose, better results would follow.
Inspections.
18. The inspections performed by Deputy Sanitary Commissioners, Civil
Surgeons, Inspectors and Sub-Inspectors of Vaccina-
tion are given below in order of sequence. It
would be misleading to prepare a statement of this nature for three years on
account of the frequent changes of officers. I have therefore shown only the
inspections performed during the last year of the triennial period under
review:—
Deputy Sanitary Commissioners.
CIRCLE.
1
Metropolitan and
Eastern Bengal.
Northern Bengal...
Western Bengal ...
Name of Deputy Sanitary
Commissioners.
2
Major J. G. Jordan, from 6th
May to 26th July 1898, and
Captain R. H. Maddox, from
28th November to 11th De-
cember 1898.
Captain B. H Deare, from
15th to 77th June 1898, and
Major U. N. Mukherji, from
19th November 1898 to 15th
January 1899.
Assistant
Surgeon Gopal
Chandra Mukherji, from 1st
April to 19th May 1898, and
from 24th July 1898 to 31st
March 1899, and Captain
J. C. Vaughan, from 20th
May to 23rd July 1898.
Number
of villages
in his juris-
diction.
3
55,468
95,690
91,479
Total
number of
operations
performed
in his juris-
diction.
4
749,901
890,600
506,951
Number
of
villages
visited.
5
Number
of
opera-
tions in-
spected.
6
Number of
operations
found to
have been
successfully
vaccinated.
7
Proportion
of opera-
tions in-
spected to
total num-
ber of
operations
performed
in his juris-
diction.
8
Proportion
of success-
--l opera-
tions to
total num-
ber of
operations
inspected.
9
In consequence of their short stay, these officers could
make no vaccination inspections.
53
357
1,366
7,627
1,334
7,019
.15
1.50
97.65
92.02
NOTE, —There was no Deputy Sanitary Commissioner in the Metropolitan and Eastern Bengal Circle from the 1st April to 5th
May, from 27th July to 27th November 1898 and from 12th December 1898 to the end of the year 1898-99; and in the Northern
Bengal Circle from the 1st April to 14th June, from 18th June to 18th November 1898, and from 16th January 1899 to the end of
the year
Civil Surgeons.
DISTRICT.
1
Dacca
...
...
Purnea
...
...
Monghyr
...
...
Pabna
...
...
Name of Civil Surgeon.
2
Lieutenant -Colonel R. Macrae
Dr. Fink for one month and
Major E. H. Brown for five
months.
Major P. A. Rogers and Dr.
McLeod in the Jumalpur Mu-
nicipality.
Assistant Surgeon P. Mitra for
two months and Dr. U. C.
Mukherji for four months.
Number of villages in
his jurisdiction.
3
6,793
5,994
3,867
3,883
Total number of opera-
tions performed in his
jurisdiction.
4
114,920
60,150
55,478
39,445
Number of villages visit-
ed.
5
238
324
219
264
Number of operations in-
spected.
6
10,425
10,248
8,916
8,708
Number of operations
found to have been suc-
cessfully vaccinated.
7
8,927
10,219
8,590
7,796
Proportion of operations
inspected to total number
of operations performed
in his jurisdiction.
8
9.07
17.03
16.07
22.07
Proportion of successful
operations to total num-
ber of operations inspect-
ed.
9
85.63
99.71
96.34
89.52
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