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7. Vaccination performed by other
agencies.—The following statement
shows the number of operations perform-
ed by other agencies:—

It will appear from the above state-
ment that vaccination in the tea gardens
has greatly improved during the year.
The Jalpaiguri tea gardens reported
7,510 operations in 1925-26 as compared
with 120 during the previous year;
though I am afraid, reports from all
the tea gardens in that district were
not furnished to the District Health
Officer, as will be apparent from the
comparison of the above figures with
17,052 vaccinations reported from the
Darjeeling tea gardens, I take this op-
portunity of once again drawing the at-
tention of the Duars Planters' Associa-
tion to have this defect remedied. The
number of operations performed in fac-
tories was 25,923 during the year under
review against 18,531 in the previous
year, showing an increase of 7,392 oper-
ations. The number of vaccinations
performed within the railway limits
decreased from 26,055 and 24,109
during the two preceding years to 11,894
in 1925-26 and so also that done within
the jurisdiction of the Port of Calcutta.
The jails, however, reported an increase
of 1,992 operations in the year under
review over those of the previous year.

8. Protection afforded to Infants.—
During 1925-26, out of 1,162,322, the
estimated number of infants available for
vaccination in the province, 313,286 or
269.5 per mille were successfully vacci-
nated as compared with 306,344 or 275.4
per mille during the preceding year.
This ratio was 253.3 per mille in the rural
areas, 960.7 in Calcutta, and 482.4 in
mufassal municipalities in 1925-26 against
253.3, 1,442.7 and 503.0 per mille
respectively in 1924-25. The mufassal
municipalities thus showed an increase
of 90.4 per cent.in the degree of protec-
tion afforded to infants over that
obtained in the rural areas. In four
districts—Malda, Rajshahi, Darjeeling
and Jalpaiguri, the rate of protection
was over 500 per mille; in five others, it
was between 300 and 400 per mille; in
nine between 200 and 300 per mille, in six
between 100 and 200 per mille, while in
the remaining three districts, viz., Farid-
pur, Bogra and Bakarganj, it was 96.7,
82.3 and 27.8 per mille, respectively.

9.     Recess Vaccination.—Three hun-
dred sixty-five thousand three hundred
and four vaccinations were performed
during the recess season of 1925-26
against 199,228 and 188,065 during the
two preceding years, showing an increase
of 83.4 per cent. and 94.2 per cent. over
the previous two periods respectively.
This increase was chiefly due to the
presence of smallpox in the province. The
average number of recess operations per-
formed during the triennial period under
review was 250,866 against 358,787
during the previous triennium.

10.     Six-Puncture Vaccination.—The
6-point vaccination is very unpopular
with the parents and guardians and its
number is gradually declining year by
year. From 132,507 and 146,521 success-
ful operations during the two preceding
years, respectively, their number de-
creased to 115,902 during the year under
review. The average of the triennial
period was 131,643 against 182,297
during the previous epoch.

11.     Cost and Contribution towards
Vaccination.—The total cost of vaccina-
tion during the year 1925-26 was
Rs. 4,52,901-13-4, of which Rs. 2,16,868-1-4
were contributed from provincial
revenues, Rs. 1,64,908-14-9 from local
funds, and Rs. 71,124-13-3 by munici-
palities, against Rs. 4,62,748-12-0,
Rs. 2,15,784-1-1, Rs. 1,54,140-1-6, and
Rs. 92,824-9-6, respectively in 1924-25.
The local Government, contributed a
sum of Rs. 25,000 during the year to the
District Boards for the promotion of free
vaccination. The average cost of each
successful case of vaccination was 3
annas and 2 pies in the year under review,
as compared with 3 annas and 6 pies
during the previous year. The average
cost of vaccination during the present
triennium was Rs. 4,47,795-0-10 against