Extract from the Proceedings of the Resident at Hyderabad, No. 2224, dated
Hyderabad Residency, the 25th June 1901.
READ—
The Notes on the Annual Returns of Vaccination in the Hyderabad Assigned Districts for the year
1900-01.
RESOLUTION.
The Vaccination Report was received from the Sanitary Commissioner on
May 13th, and the Commissioner's review on the 20th June 1901.
2. The main feature of the year is the large decrease in the number
of operations performed, which only amount to 107,788, being 68,113 less
than in the previous year, and 12,523 less than in 1896-97. The decrease
is attributed by the Sanitary Commissioner as regards primary vaccination
to the low birth-rate, the high mortality among infants, and the employment
of many vaccinators on famine work. The latter cause, coupled with the high
rate of adult mortality, accounts for the diminution of re-vaccination. In fact
the famine is writ large across this as across all other Berar reports for
1900-01.
3. There was a slight increase in the success which attended vaccination
and re-vaccination. The percentage of success in the former shows a rise
from 95.8 to 96.6, and would have been higher but for bad work in the Wun
district, for which one vaccinator was reduced to a lower grade. In the latter
the percentage of success rose from 17.2 to 20.9. The figure is not high, but
the Sanitary Commissioner's explanation that this is due to efficiency in primary
vaccination in former years may be considered satisfactory. Lanolinated calf
lymph was used from the 1st April to the end of November, when it was again
possible to raise fresh calf lymph. This has probably had some effect in
diminishing the percentage of success.
4. The cost of the vaccination work was slightly greater in the aggregate
owing to the grant of compensation for dearness of grain to the establish-
ment, but as the number of cases fell, the average cost per case rose from
2 annas 3 pie to 3 annas 9 pie. Still, as the Sanitary Commissioner points out,
this is less than the average cost in Madras and Bombay in the previous year.
5. Table No. 3 shows the efficiency of vaccination in preventing small-
pox mortality. The proportion of the population protected this year fell to
27.3, and there was a slight rise in small-pox mortality. This was, however,
mainly in the Wun and Basim districts, where there was a large influx of
unvaccinated people from the Hyderabad State.
6. The work in municipalities was vigrously carried on and the standard
rate exceeded. In the majority of them more infants were vaccinated than
column three of table No. 7 shows as available for vaccination. This is due to
the influx of famine-stricken villagers and also of mill hands during the cold
weather, many of whose children, though born outside, were vaccinated within
municipal limits.
7. On the whole there is little of note in the report. The Resident, how-
ever, hopes that the current year will show a return to the figures of previous
years in the number of operations performed and the average cost of each case.
He has great pleasure in recording his appreciation of the work of Lieutenant¬
Colonel Swaine and of the officers and vaccinators specially mentioned in the
report.
(By order)
W. HAIG, CAPTAIN,
Secretary for Berar.
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