42                              SONTHAL PERGUNNAHS.

with doubtful success resulted, my vaccinators have always attempted to produce typical
vesicles and have generally succeeded in doing so. The number of times that each man's
work was inspected during the season, is as follows :—1st grade vaccinator Peary Mohun's
work, seven times; 2nd grade vaccinators Indro Narain's and Oghorenath's work, eight and
ten times respectively; and 3rd grade vaccinators Rutty Kanto, Bhagiruth and Anundo Lall's
work, six times each. Thus on an average each vaccinator's work was inspected seven times
during the season.

Tabular statement
of inspection

                                                                                                                Tabular Statement of Inspection.

                                                                                                            *Seen too early to decide on the result.

It will be seen from the above statement that out of a total number of 11,071 cases
vaccinated, 9,889 have been inspected by me or 89.32 per cent.

Excluding the 4 cases seen from the 1st to 4th day, we have, number vaccinated 9,885 ;
number of points 40,146; cases successful 9,484; points successful 33,676; percentage of
successful cases 95.94 ; percentage of successful points 83.88.

The percentage of success in cases seen by me is very slightly in excess of that given
in the general return hereunto appended, a circumstance which rather speaks in favor of
the correctness of the latter.

Small-pox—due to
inoculation.

8. Small-pox.—Several outbreaks of small-pox, which have already formed the subject
of special reports, have occurred this year both in Rajmehal and Pakour sub-divisions,
chiefly from the beginning of January. Most of these were the direct or indirect results
of inoculation,

In Pakour

The first occurrence took place in Shoorma, a village, in the interior of Pakour, inha-
bited partly by Sonthals, and partly by Paharias. Here nine cases had occurred as the result
of inoculation, four of which died. These were chiefly among adults who had inoculation
years ago, and who caught the disease from the recently inoculated.

In Rajmehal.

The second outbreak occurred in Koolkha, a Sonthal village in the interior of Raj-
mehal sub-division. Here six cases occurred among unprotected persons; all of which
however recovered. Though this could not be traced to contagion, the distance between
the infected places being great, yet from the constant intercourse which goes on between
Sonthals of distant villages, especially on festive occasions like that through which they
were then passing, it does not appear improbable that contagion was the cause of the out-
break.

A second out-break
in Pakour.

The next outbreak took place, towards the latter end of February, at Koopapahar and
Roghoonathpore, the one a Paharia and the other a Sonthal village in the interior of
Pakour. In the former 53 cases and 20 deaths were said to have occurred all in unprotect-
ed persons, and the disease was distinctly traced to contagion from Shoorma. In the latter
(Roghoonathpore) which again took the disease from Koopapahar to which it is almost
adjoining, four cases had occurred ; one in an old woman who had inoculation; two in chil-
dren who had then been recently vaccinated, and in whom the primary fever occurred before
the fifth day of vaccination; and one in an unprotected child; all these cases however
recovered. From this place the disease was carried over, by contagion, to the mission house
at Heranpore, a distance of not less than eight miles, where one case occurred, in an un-
protected child, which ultimately recovered.