Resolution on the Vaccination Report of Assam for the years
                                   ending 1913-14.

Extract from the Proceedings of the Chief Commissioner of Assam in the Municipal
                     Department, No. 4466M., dated the 25th July 1914.

READ—

        Vaccination Report of the Province of Assam for the three years ending 1913-14.

                                          RESOLUTION.

THE large increase in the number of vaccination operations performed in the
period under report, as compared with the preceding three years, is satisfactory.
Lieutenant-Colonel Gurdon is particularly pleased to notice that the prejudices of
the " Mahapurushia " sect in the Kamrup district are being overcome, and that the
increase in the number of vaccinations amongst this community during the triennium
was more than five-fold.

It is reported that an experiment in the appointment of licensed vaccinators
remunerated by fees in Sylhet was not successful, and doubts have been expressed
as to the suitability of this system to Assam. This question should be carefully
examined by the Sanitary Commissioner.

The insufficiency of the inspection of vaccination work by Civil Surgeons was
noticed in the Resolution of the Government of Eastern Bengal and Assam on the
Report on vaccination for the three years ending 1910-11, and the Officiating Chief
Commissioner is therefore disappointed to find no record of improvement in this
respect in the present report. The Inspector General of Civil Hospitals will be asked
to obtain the explanations of those officers whose inspection work was inadequate.

Wide variation exists as regards the completeness of vaccination in the compulsory
areas and there appears to be no reason why, whilst almost all the available infants
were vaccinated in Goalpara, Golaghat, Shillong, and Dibrugarh, only about half of
them were vaccinated in Sibsagar, Silchar, and Gauhati. Lieutenant-Colonel Gurdon
trusts that special attention will be paid to this point by the Civil Surgeons concerned.

                                                        By order of the Chief Commissioner of Assam,

                                                                         A. W. BOTHAM,

                                                        Second Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Assam.