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                                                                        PROVINCIAL STATEMENT A.—Showing the degree of protection afforded to infants during the year 1907-08.

DISTRICTS.

Population among which
vaccination were carried
out.

Estimated birth at 38.68
per 1,000 of population
(being the actual birth-
rate for the province
during the year 1907).

Mortality among infants
under one year.

Surviving population un-
der one year available
for vaccination.

Number successfully vac-
cinated.

Proportion of persons
successfully vaccinated
per 1,000 of population
as shown in column 5.

Proportion of persons
successfully vaccinated
per 1,000 of population
in 1906-07.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Ranchi... ...

1,157,992

44,791

11,096

33,695

40,573

1,204.12

998.05

Sambalpur... ...

622,994

24,097

6,576

17,521

18,608

1,062.03

925.00

Palamau... ...

613,763

23,740

9,018

14,722

11,994

814.69

820.82

Murshidabad... ...

1,257,277

48,632

11,130

37,502

30,206

805.45

892.71

Cuttack... ...

1,984,038

76,743

21,199

55,544

39,767

715.95

511.85

Hazaribagh... ...

1,142,130

44,178

11,925

32,253

23,082

715.65

758.75

Bhagalpur... ...

2,007,455

77,648

11,595

66,053

46,942

710.67

776.18

Nadia... ...

1,572,136

60,810

13,234

47,576

33,522

704.59

606.80

Manbhum... ...

1,275,025

49,318

9,900

39,418

27,028

685.67

614.66

Darjeeling... ...

227,724

8,808

1,598

7,210

4,532

628.57

807.31

Monghyr... ...

2,013,966

77,900

16,238

61,662

36,976

599.65

577.13

Midnapore... ...

2,699,238

104,407

18,272

86,135

50,806

589.84

578.75

Gaya... ...

1,972,336

76,290

19,386

56,904

32,597

572.84

760.81

Sonthal Parganas... ...

1,788,015

69,161

12,021

57,140

32,633

571.10

619.19

Birbhum... ...

893,588

34,564

8,330

26,234

14,066

536.17

191.48

Darbhanga... ...

2,809,219

108,660

11,822

96,838

51,111

527.80

482.52

Purnea... ...

1,844,044

71,328

15,236

56,092

29,547

526.75

449.35

Khulna... ...

1,226,782

47,452

10,888

36,564

18,733

512.25

499.44

Hooghly... ...

915,149

35,398

7,277

28,121

14,373

511.11

424.15

Burdwan... ...

1,445,744

55,921

13,510

42,411

20,293

478.84

567.92

Singhbhum... ...

604,926

23,399

3,095

20,304

9,653

575.42

504.60

Muzaffarpur... ...

2,666,978

103,158

15,315

87,843

39,469

449.31

445.74

Angul... ...

191,911

7,423

1,477

5,946

2,519

423.64

569.74

24-Parganas... ...

1,680,229

64,991

9,268

55,723

22,781

408.82

428.07

Jessore... ...

1,791,856

69,309

10,880

58,429

23,642

404.62

333.94

Howrah... ...

679,691

26,290

4,599

21,691

8,548

394.08

343.65

Political States of Singh-
bhum

141,079

5,457

1,085*

4,372

1,701

389.06

382.62

Patna... ...

1,410,725

54,567

14,265

40,302

14,527

360.45

373.35

Shahabad... ... ...

1,844,590

71,349

18,045

53,304

19,148

359.22

319.92

Champaran... ...

1,752,037

67,769

12,480

55,289

19,139

346.16

302.06

Saran... ...

2,338,489

90,453

11,851

5,602

25,920

342.84

375.47

Puri... ...

967,950

37,440

8,872

28,568

9,751

341.32

206.53

Tributary States of Orissa

2,575,504

99,621

19,822*

79,799

26,896

337.04

318.37

Balasore... ...

1,050,317

40,626

11,185

29,441

8,320

282.59

368.54

Bankura ...

1,068,136

41,122

8,238

32,884

7,772

236.34

351.17

Total of Rural Circle ...

50,228,033

1,942,820

393,728

1,549,092

817,175

527.51

510.01

Calcutta... ...

847,796

32,792

5,005

27,787

4,875

175.44

162.68

Mufassal Municipalities ..

2,361,111

91,328

18,527

72,801

43,841

604.63

575.55

Railway vaccination...

...

...

...

...

177

GRAND TOTAL...

53,436,940

2,066,940

417,260

1,649,680

866,068

524.99

507.29

                                                            * Registration of births and deaths is not carried on in these places. The number of deaths anions infants in them has been
                                                calculated at the rate of infant mortality (19898) obtaining in this province during the year 1907.

OFFICE OF THE SANY. COMMR. FOR BENGAL,

F. C. CLARKSON, LIEUT.-COL., I.M.S.,

The 30th May 1908.

Sanitary Commissioner for Bengal.