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the smallest amount of protection. The last fact is also supported by the figures representing
the percentages of infants vaccinated to number born.

Religion of the vaccinated.

114. The next table furnishes particulars regarding the results of vaccination among
the several classes of the population in the area under
operation:—

Of the total operations the largest number is represented by the Mahomedans, and next by
the Hindus. Calculated on population, it appears that the Christian population was best
protected, next the Mahomedans, and third the Hindus, eliminating the " other races " from
consideration, as the percentages of vaccinated among them, as exhibited in the above table,
would indicate that their population has not been correctly censussed.

Cost of vaccination.

115. The operations of the Government agency cost Rs. 10,895.12-3, or at the rate of
1 anna and 1.32 pie for each successful case. Those of the
licensed agency cost Rs. 846, or at 1.38 pie per case Thus
on the whole an aggregate expenditure of Rs. 11,741-12-3 was incurred for the purpose,
the cost of each successful operation being represented by 7.68 pie The corresponding
figures for 1879-80 are—total cost Rs. 11,679-1-7, cost per case 7 pie.

Inspections.

116. The inspection work of the supervising officers of
this circle is detailed in the following table:—

The inspections prove that satisfactory success attended the operations of the year. The
amount of inspection work, as represented by the percentages, ranging from 3.21 to 34.20,
shown in the last column of the table, is on the whole insufficient. Conspicuous for defi-
ciency is the work of the Deputy Superintendent, and I quite agree with the Superintendent
in condemning it.: The Deputy Superintendent appears, moreover, to have prevented the
Superintendent from entering upon his inspections in Pubna by failing to meet him at
Goalundo, and at Nakabin in thana Mathura, on the plea, in the latter case, that the letter
requiring him to do so reached him after the day fixed for the meeting. He never replied
to this letter, and it appears that he wanted to conceal himself. The Superintendent reports
that he would have visited a larger number of villages had it not been that he had in
Mymensing to inspect large inhabited tracts, called locally "paras," which he classed
as villages, with extensive fields intervening between them.

Inoculation.

117. Inoculation was practised clandestinely in Faridpore and Dacca, although the pro-
hibitory law is in force in these districts. The police say
that as the practice of inoculation is not a cognizable offence,
they cannot take the initiative in the matter, and the people, from apathy or fear, will not
move in it. Thus it is well nigh impossible for a vaccinator to know where the practice is going
on; and if he does detect a case, the difficulties attending the prosecution of the offender are
very great. The Superintendent suggests that if the law cannot be altered, the police
should be directed to report to the Magistrate or to the Superintendent all breaches in this
respect. Some inoculators were prosecuted by the inspectors and fined on conviction. The