Triennial vaccination report of the Province of Assam : with brief explanatory notes.
- Assam
- Date:
- [1920]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Triennial vaccination report of the Province of Assam : with brief explanatory notes. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Resolution on the Vaccination Report of Assam for the three years ending 1919-20. Extract from the Proceedings of the Chief Commissioner of Assam in the Municipal Department, No. 44032!f., dated the 22nd July 1920. READ— Vaccination Report of the Province of Assam for the three years ending 19]9-20. RESOLUTION. ♦ There was an increase in the total number of operations performed during the three years under review, the figures being 1,085,373 as compared with 1,004,076 in the last three years. The increase appears to have been chiefly in the Manipur State. It would have been greater had not vaccinators been largely employed in combating the influenza epidemics of 1918-19 and 1919 20. In 1919 the death-rate from small-pox was only *20 per mille—the lowest figure recorded in the last ten years. The Chief Commissioner is glad to notice that, with the co-operation of District and Subdivisional Officers, the opposition of the Mahapurushia sect is being gradually overcome. 2. Licensed vaccinators have now been entirely replaced by paid vaccinators* In accordance with a scheme placed before them by the Sanitary Commissioner, most Local Boards have increased their staffs. The Chief Commissioner regrets that the Karimganj Local Board has not seen its way to do this. 3. The Sanitary Commissioner is satisfied that generally speaking the provisions of the Vaccination Act are beiiie: properly enforced in those areas in which vaccina¬ tion is compulsory. His proposal to make vaccination compulsory in certain rural areas was considered in 1919, but could not be accepted in its entirety. It was decided to extend the Bengal Vaccination Act to those areas only where village authorities had been established, provided that such authorities consented. 4. It is clear from the figures given in the report that, in certain districts, both Civil Surgeons and the subordinate inspecting staff might with advantage have done more inspection. 5. Sir Nicholas Beatson Bell trusts that returns of vaccinations will, in future,1 be regularly sent in from tea gardens. 6. The Chief Commissioner thanks Major Young and those specially mentioned by him for their good work. Ordered that the Resolution and the Report be published in the Assam Gazette. By order of the Chief Commissioner of Assam, A. R. EDWARDS, Second Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Assam. / » * - » j](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31495849_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
