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TRIENNIAL REPORT
OF
VACCINATION IN BENGAL
FOR THE
YEARS 1905-06, 1906-07 and 1907-08.
THIS report deals with the triennial period 1905-06 to 1907-08.
Officer in charge of the Depart-
ment.
2. Major W. W. Clemesha, I.M.S., was in charge of the Department from
1st April 1905 to 15th November 1906 and I for
the rest of the triennial period. The following
officers served as Deputy Sanitary Commis-
sioners :—
Bengal and Orissa Circle.—Captain C. A. Gourlay, I.M.S., was in charge
from the 16th to 22nd October 1905; Captain W. C. Ross, I.M.S., from 23rd
October 1905 to 26th July 1906 and again from 19th October to 18th
November 1906; Dr. Hay Pulipaka from 27th July to 18th October
1906, and Captain D. Munro, I.M.S., from 19th November 1906 to 31st March
1908.
Bihar and Chota Nagpur Circle.—Captain James Masson, I.M.S., was in
charge from the 16th October 1905 to 20th August 1906; Senior Assistant
Surgeon Kali Nath Banerjee from 21st August to 25th November 1906, and
Captain W. C. Ross, I.M.S., from 26th November 1906 to 31st March 1908.
Prior to 16th October 1905 there were three Deputy Sanitary Commis-
sioners under me, but the number was reduced to two owing to the transfer
of 15 districts to the newly created Province of Eastern Bengal and Assam.
Captain James Masson, I.M.S., was in charge of the late Northern Bengal
Circle from 1st April to 15th October 1905. Assistant Surgeon Gopal Chandra
Mookerjee was in charge of the late Wostern Bengal Circle from 1st April to
8th June 1905 and Captain W. C. Ross, I.M.S., from 9th June to 22nd
October 1905. Captain C. A. Gourlay, I.M.S., was in charge of the late
Metropolitan and Eastern Circle from 19th May to 15th October 1905. It was
without a Deputy Sanitary Commissioner from 1st April to 18th May 1905.
Strength of staff.
3. In Calcutta the average number of inspecting officers and operators
was 7 and 28, against the same number of 1903-05.
In provincial rural areas and mufassal municipa-
lities and dispensaries, etc., the inspecting staff and operators, including
apprentices, numbered 194 and 2,409 and 7 and 170 respectively, against
179 and 2,348 and 8 and 170 respectively of the previous triennial period.
The increase in the number of the inspecting staff in rural areas is due to the
appointment of extra supervising staff in the Tributary States of Orissa.
[The average figures of the previous triennial period 1903-05 shown in
this report have been calculated by excluding the figures of the transferred
districts.]
General operations.
4. The total number of operations performed in the Province during the
past year was 2,058,371, of which 1,868,290 were
primary and 190,081 revaccination cases, against
2,037,273 with 1,874,976 primary and 162,297 revaccination of 1906-07 and
2,041,230 with 1,904,625 primary and 136,605 revaccination of 1905-06.
The average of the triennial period under review was 2,045,624 with 1,882,630
primary and 162,994 revaccination, against 1,765,946 with 1,679,272 primary
and 86,674 revaccination of 1902-03 to 1904-05. There was an average
increase of 279,678 cases, of which 203,358 were in primary vaccination and
76,320 in revaccination. It is very satisfactory to notice that, notwithstanding
adverse circumstances, such as the prevalence of scarcity in many parts of the
Province, there has been such a large increase in the number of operations in
the Province. The increase occurred not only in rural areas, but also in towns,
viz., 29,289 in muffasal towns and 29,065 in Calcutta.