SHORT NOTES ON VACCINATION
FOR THE YEAR
1900-1901.
THE following are brief notes on vaccination in Bengal for the year
1900-1901, prepared in accordance with the recent orders of the Government of
India regarding the curtailment of annual reports and returns.
Officer in charge of the Depart-
ment.
2. I was in charge of the Department
throughout the year, and had under me the follow-
ing Deputy Sanitary Commissioners: —
In the Metropolitan Circle—Captain L. Rogers, I.M.S., from 1st to 3rd
April 1900, and again from 20th September 1900 to 31st March
1901; Captain T. O. Langston, I.M.S., from 4th April to 11th May
1900, and Captain Green, I.M.S., from 12th May to 16th August
1900.
In the Northern Bengal Circle—Captain W. D. Hayward, I.M.S., from 1st
April to 12th August 1900.
In the Western Bengal Circle—Assistant Surgeon Gopal Chandra
Mukerjea, throughout the year.
There was no Deputy Sanitary Commissioner in the Metropolitan Circle
from 17th August to 19th September 1900, and in the Northern Bengal Circle
from 13th August 1900 to the end of the year. I was in charge of the
current work of those offices during those periods in addition to my own work.
Strength of staff.
3. In Calcutta the staff was the same as in the previous year, viz., 6
inspecting officers and 27 vaccinators. In Pro-
vincial rural areas, the inspecting staff was 247,
against 246 of the preceding year. The increase of one officer is due to the
appointment of an additional Head Vaccinator in the Tributary States of Orissa.
The number of paid vaccinators was 73, against 120 of 1899-1900. The
decrease was due to the appointment of a smaller number of vaccinators by the
District Board of Puri. Among licensed vaccinators and apprentices, num-
bering 2,214, plus 1,182, or 3,396 in all, there was a decrease of 44 operators as
compared with the previous year. This is due to ordinary fluctuations. In
mufassal municipalities, dispensaries, etc., the inspecting staff and operators
numbered 10 and 240, against 10 and 245, respectively, in the previous year.
Number of operations per-
formed and average per man.
4. The total number of operations performed in Bengal during the year
under report was 2,346,311, against 2,252,521 of the
p receding year, or an increase of 93,790 operations
during the year under report. This increase was
contributed by Provincial rural areas (45,118), Calcutta (16,970), and mufassal
municipalities and dispensaries, etc. (31,702). Out of the 49 districts of Bengal,
including the Tributary States of Orissa and Chota Nagpur, there was an
increase of operations in 31 districts, and a decrease in 18. The total
operations performed in Provincial rural areas, Calcutta, and mufassal muni-
cipalities and dispensaries, etc., were 2,158,565, 43,326, and 144,420, res-
pectively, against 2,113,447, 26,356, and 112,718 in the previous year.
The increase is most striking in the districts of Mymensingh (16,492), the
Tributary States of Orissa (11,057), Chittagong (10,958), Pabna (10,043),
Noakhali (9,656), Backergunge(9,464), Jessore (9,195), Darbhanga (8,237),
Monghyr (7,564), Rajshahi (6,999), Faridpur (5,389), Bogra (5,024),
Muzaffarpur (4,745), Burdwan (4,188), Darjeeling (4,056), and Shahabad
(4,007). The decrease is specially noticeable in the districts of Balasore,
Sonthal Parganas, Bankura, Saran, Bhagalpur, Gaya, Rangpur, Cuttack, Patna,
Puri, and the Political States of Chota Nagpur, where there was a falling off
of 13,254, 12,295, 12,232, 11,267, 9,147, 8,879, 8,520, 8,418, 8,099, 8,026, and
5,228 operations, respectively.