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Work done in 1893-94 and in
1894-95, compared district by dis-
trict.

9. In the following table the amount of vaccination work done district by district
is compared with the results obtained in 1893-94 :

Table showing the amount of vaccination work done by all agencies in each district during the years
                                             1893-94 and 1894-95.

There were altogether 200,137 vaccinations done by all agencies during the year
under review, as against 206,172 in 1893-94, a decrease of 6,035 operations. There was
an increase in the number of vaccinations done in 8 out of the 13 districts of the
province ; the decrease in the province, as a whole, was due to many fewer operations
having been done in the Sylhet and Darrang districts than in the previous year.

Districts in which the greatest
increase occurred.

10. In the Kámrúp district there were 6,603 more vaccinations done than in the
previous year. This large increase was partly due to three
additional vaccinators having been employed, but it was
principally due to the great personal interest which Surgeon-
Major Campbell, the Civil Surgeon, took in vaccination work. There was also a
substantial increase of 5,769 operations in the Sibságar district. Surgeon-Lieutenant-
Colonel Borah, the Civil Surgeon, states that the vaccination staff of this district worked
very well, especially those employed in the Sibságar and Jorhát subdivisions ;- and much
credit is due to the Civil Surgeon for the increased energy which he was able to infuse
into his subordinates.

Districts in which the greatest
decrease occurred.

11. In the Sylhet district there were 12,055 fewer operations done than in the
previous year, though there were four more vaccinators at
work. The Civil Surgeon states that the decrease was due
partly to the bad quality of the Shillong lymph, and partly
to the fact that no lymph was received from the depôt in November. From his annual
returns it would appear that the lymph supplied to him must have been, on the whole,
good, as 94.12 per cent. of the primary vaccinations done by his paid vaccinators were
successful. There were 3,543 fewer operations done in the Darrang district than in
1893-94 ; and it is worthy of remark that there were 8,208 fewer operations done in that
district in 1893-94 than in 1892-93. The Civil Surgeon states that the decrease was
due to the inefficiency of the Shillong lymph. The general results show that the
Shillong lymph was not worse than the lymph supplied by that depôt in 1893-94, and
it was of exactly the same quality as the lymph supplied to the neighbouring district
of Kámrúp, in which comparatively very good results were obtained.

Number of infants and children
successfully vaccinated.

12. Including the work done by the dispensary establishment, there were 40,082
infants under one year of age and 90,464 children between
the ages of one and six years of age successfully vaccinated
during the season, as compared with 37,112 and 87,519, the
respective-numbers done successfully at these ages during 1893-94. There were thus
2,970 more infants and 2,945 more children between the ages of one and six years
successfully vaccinated than in the previous year. There were 156,153 births registered
during 1894, so that 25.7 per cent. of the children born during the year were successfully
vaccinated, as against 24.5 per cent. successfully vaccinated in 1893-94.

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