Annual sanitary report of the Province of Assam.

  • Assam
Date:
[1930]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual sanitary report of the Province of Assam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    40/92 page 22
    40. During the year, out of 4,513 infants under one year available for vaccination „ . . , in the towns in which vaccination is compulsory, 2,233 or accma ion m comp usory areas. 49.43 per cent. were successfully vaccinated, as compared with 46*35 per cent, in 1929-30. The degree of protection afforded to infants by successful vaccination appears satisfactory in the towns of Hailakandi, Habiganj, Goalpara and Nowgong, in which 75 to 100 per cent, of the available infants were vaccinated. The ratio was very low in Doom Dooma (5*55) Mangaldai (1T77), Golaghat (13 58), Gauripur (17*03), Maulvibazar (18*42) and Sunamganj (18*46). This shows a weakness in the administration of the provisions of the compulsory Act in these towns. In rural compulsory areas under village authorities in the Sylhet and Sibsagar districts 3,881 and 3,322 operations, respectively, were performed during the year, as compared with 3,723 and 1,871, respectively in 1929-30. 41. The total number of capillary tubes loaded for issue during the year 1930-31 . was 1,041,077 as compared with 966,717 in 1929-30. accme epo . During the year 845 calves were purchased and inocula¬ ted and lymph was taken from 719. Six calves died, 120 calves were rejected, 54 on account of failure of operations, 51 due to illness and 15 due to ulceration and unsatisfactory vesicles, as compared with 30, 52 and 11 in the preceding year. The average number of tubes filled per calf was 1,447, as compared with 1,358 in 1929- 30. The total cost of working the Vaccine Dep6t was Rs. 20,824 (of which Rs. 6,078 was on establishment, Rs. 6,131 on purchase of calves, Rs, 535 on feed of calves, Rs. 5,707 onvacoine tubes and Rs. 2,373 on miscellaneous contingencies), as compared with Rs. 21,305 in the preceding year. The lymph was, as usual, supplied free througout the year to Civil Surgeons, inspectors and sub-inspectors of vaccination and to the Medical Officers of military units and municipalities. Tea gardens, railways, and Manipur State were supplied with lymph at the rate of one anna per tube. Lieutenant-Colonel D. L. Graham held charge of the Depdt throughout the year except for two short periods, namely, from the 2nd April to 8th May 1930 and from the 24th January to 22nd February 1931. The subordinate charge of the dep6t was held by senior grade sub-assistant-surgeon Narendra Nath Dam up to the 1st March 1931 when he retired and by sub-assistant surgeon Mon Mohan Sarkar from the 2nd to 31st March 1931. 42. The total cost of the department amounted to Rs. 1,19,712-9-6 during the . , year 1930-31, as compared with Rs. 1,19,818-1-0 in 1929- os o e epar men . go# The cost 0f eac}1 succeSsful vaccination was annas 4 and pies 4 in 1930-31, as compared with annas 4 in 1929-30. 43. Primary vaccinations and revaccinations performed by tea garden Medical Officers were 19,871 and 12,781, by Medical Officers in charge of jail hospitals, Mental Hospital, Police hospitals and infectious diseases hospitals 293 and 5,850, and by railway Medical Officers 364 and 1,883. Their successful percentages were 95*81 and 76*20,86*521 and 25*95 and 93*31 and 54*20, respectively. SECTION VIII. Sanitary Works-Military. (No remarks.) SECTION IX. Sanitary Works—Civil. 44. The number of Municipal Boards and Town Committees during the year under report was the same as in the previous year, viz., seventeen municipal board and eight town committees. 45. The aggregate income, including the opening balance of the seventeen ..... ... . municipal boards and eight town committees amounted to la“r0,p elF“d‘tDro on sam‘ Rs. 12:82,601 in 1930, as compared with Rs. 12,26,602 in 1929. A sum of Rs. 5,62,055 or 43*82 per cent, of the total income was spent on different heads of sanitation as compared with Rs. 5,58,333 and 45*52, respectively in 1929. General.
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3