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Season's work.
4. The following table shows the season's
work contrasted with that of the previous two
years :—
TABLE No. 1.—Vaccination work for three years compared.
District.
Amraoti ... ...
Ellichpur ... ...
Wun ... ...
Basim ... ...
Akola ... ...
Buldana ... ...
Total ...
Primary vaccination.
1893-94.
21,554
12,623
12,843
14,001
19,702
17,063
97,786
1894-95.
21,396
11,625
11,045
12,414
20,716
16,100
93,296
1895-96.
21,659
13,581
10,704
12,329
18,603
15,818
92,694
Re-vaccination.
1893-94.
12,103
5,363
4,870
5,289
4,673
7,041
39,366
1894-95.
4,642
4,579
2,015
2,451
3,805
3,851
21,343
1895-96.
4,549
1,850
1,026
1,044
2,601
2,841
13,911
Total number vaccinated.
1893-94.
33,684
17,986
17,713
19,290
24,375
24,104
137,152
1894-95.
26,038
16,204
13,060
14,865
24,521
19,951
114,639
1895-96.
26,208
15,431
11,730
13,373
21,204
18,659
106,605
From this it will be seen that there was a decrease of 602 primary vaccin-
ations as compared with the previous year, and of 5,092 as contrasted with
1893-94. The cause of this desrease is attributable to two unhealthy years, as
is borne out by the mortality figures given below :—
Years.
1893
...
...
...
1894 ... ... ...
1895 ... ... ...
Death-rate.
32.6
42.0
49.9
Influenza was very prevalent throughout the province, and caused much
sickness amongst the general population as well as amongst the vaccinators.
In sickly years the infantile population being most susceptible suffers
most; consequently there are fewer children available for vaccination, and this
is a factor which must be taken into consideration when measuring the work
of any one year with another; for, as has been pointed out in previous reports,
primary operations, considering the proportion of the population already pro-
tected, must of necessity fluctuate with the number of infants available for
operation. Thus, for instance, though the primary work of 1893-94 considera-
bly exceeds that of either of the two subsequent years, yet in both these years
a larger percentage of available infants was protected as shown below :—
TABLE No. 2.—Infants protected for three years
compared.
Years.
1893-94 ...
1894-95 ...
1895-96 ...
Registered
births.
111,924
94,759
105,952
Registered
deaths under
one year.
22,368
23,789
23,881
Number of
children
available for
vaccination.
89,556
70,970
82,121
Infants
successfully
vaccinated.
70,681
63,952
67,439
Infants re-
maining to be
vaccinated.
18,875
7,018
14,682
Percentage of
available in-
fants protected.
78.9
90.1
82.1
Paragraph 7 of the Memorandum by the Army Sanitary Com-
mission on the Report of the Sanitary Commissioner of the
Hyderabad Assigned Districts for 1893.
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" We entirely agree with Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel Little
in his remark that the most important work to be done is to
protect all the available infants, and that this should be carried
out as far as possible before re-vaccination is attempted."
This table shows that out of 82,121 infants available for vaccination under
one year, 82.1 per cent. were
protected as compared with
90.1 and 78.9 respectively in
the two preceding years. The
falling off in re-vaccination is
accounted for by the fact that the
operation is not popular; and
in view of the remark by the
Army Sanitary Commission on the Sanitary Report for 1893, as quoted in the
margin, the pressure which had been brought to bear on the vaccinators in.
this direction in 1892 was relaxed.