NOTES ON VACCINATION IN THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY
FOR THE YEAR 1920-21.
Changes amongst the
supervising officers.
During the year under report Lieut.-Colonel A. V. Anderson, I. M. S.
(retired), held charge of the office of the Deputy
Sanitary Commissioner, Western Registration District,
from 1st April to 2nd June 1920 and finally retired
from the service from 3rd June 1920. Dr. Jamshyd Munsiff, M.R.C.P.,
F.R.C.S.E., D.P.H. (Edin.), was transferred from the Guzerat to the Western
Registration District from 3rd June 1920 and held charge of that office upto
31st March 1921. The latter officer's place in Guzerat was temporarily filled
by the Civil Surgeon Major Devenport Jones, I. M. S., in addition to his own
duties up to 10th October 1920, after which date Dr. R. V. Shiveshwarkar,
B.A., M.B.B.S., D.P.H., was appointed acting Deputy Sanitary Commissioner
and held charge of that office up to the end of the financial year.
2 There was no change in the Vaccination Establishment except that
the Aundh State authoritus in Satara District took over full control of their
own Vaccination Establishment with effect from 1st April 1920.
Primary Vaccinations
(Appendix I, statements I
and III).
3. During the year 1920-21, excluding Aden,
590,676 persons were primarily vaccinated against
608,535 in the previous year.
There was a decrease in primary vaccination of 11,698, 8,325 and 7,032
in Western, Central and Guzerat Registration Districts, respectively. This
is attributable to decrease in the number of births as a result of the Influenza
epidemic of 1918-19 and the famine of 1919-20.
Results in
Primary
Vaccination,
4. Out of 590,676 primary vaccinations, 536,184 or 90.77 per cent. were
successful, 1898 (or 3 per cent.) were successful, and
the results could not be ascertained in 9 per cent. of
the cases. On account of the failure of the first
operation 165 persons were operated on a second time. The percentage of
success excluding unknown cases was 99.65.
Age and Sex.
5. Of the primary vaccinations 79 per cent. were of infants under one
year of age and 18 per cent. of children between
the ages of 1 and 6 years. 302,602 males and 288,074
females were primarily vaccinated or a proportion of 105 to 100.
Re-vaccinations (Appen-
dix I, Statements I and III).
6. Excluding Aden one hundred and fifteen thousand seven hundred and
forty-six persons were revaccinated against 107,205
in the last year, showing an increase of 8,541. The
percentage of successful re-vaccinations, excluding
unknown results, was 50.05. In 46 per cent. the result could not be ascertained.
Vaccination in Native
States (Appendix II, State-
ment I).
7. In the Native States shown in Appendix II there were 117,569 persons
primarily vaccinated against 108,477. The number
of successful cases was 112,170 or 95.19 per cent.
The percentage success excluding unknown was
97.75. Re-vaccinations numbered 3,602 against 3,506
in the previous year. The success rate excluding unknown was 79.80 and the
percentage of unknown cases was 58.91.
The total number of primary vaccinations including those in Native
States, therefore, amounts to 708,245 and the total of re-vaccinations
to 119,348.
Vaccine Institute, Belgaum.
8. The alteration of the room in the Vaccine Institute, Belgaum, which
formerly held the cold store, is proceeding, and
when completed, will add a very useful laboratory for
carrying out the chloroform process. A store was built convenient to the
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