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The cost of the Depart-
ment.
4. In the Special Staff the decrease of Rs. 3,583, under " Establishment,"
is chiefly due to Surgeon-Captain James having succeeded
Surgeon-Captain Dyson on smaller allowances than those
drawn by Dr. Dyson. The expenditure under "Travelling Allowance" for the
special Staff amounted to Rs. 3,199 against Rs. 3,888 and under "Contingencies"
to Rs. 593 against Rs. 806 in the previous year. The increased cost of the District
Establishment is due to the employment of Pandit Bálkishen on a higher salary
in the Kángra district during the year, and also to the entertainment of an In-
spector of Vaccination for the districts of Gujrát, Gujránwála and Shahpur, as
sanctioned in Punjab Government letter No. 485, dated 14th October 1893. The
expenditure under " Contingencies" for the district Staff during the year
exceeded that of 1892-93 by Rs. 574. The travelling expenses of the District
and Special Staffs were respectively Rs. 342 and Rs. 689 less than in the
preceding year. On the whole there was a decrease of Rs. 2,547 in the total
expenditure.
Cost of each successful
operation.
5. The total cost of the Department amounted to Rs. 74,151, and the
number of successful vaccine operations performed
during the year, being 781,392,* the average cost of each
operation was one anna and six pies as against one anna
and nine pies in the previous year.
The general results ob-
tained during the year.
6. The total number of persons vaccinated by all Establishments during
1893-94 was 10,56,805 (581,597 males and 475,208 females)
against 826,481 (475,134 males and 351,347 females) in the
preceding year, showing an increase of 230,324 operations
over the number done in 1892-93. Of the total number of operations performed
during the year 585,162 were primary vaccinations and 471,643 re-vaccinations;
the corresponding numbers for the past year being respectively 571,523 and
254,958. Of the primary operations performed during the year 551,821 or 94.30
per cent., and of re-vaccinations 230,580 or 48.89 per cent. were successful.
Work of District Vaccina-
tion Staff.
7. The District Staff performed 954,113 operations during the year
against 740,787 in 1892-93, an increase of 213,326. Of
the number 954,113 vaccinated during the year, 520,189
were primary and 433,924 of secondary vaccinations. Of the primary vaccina-
tions 490,052 or 94.21 per cent., and of the secondary vaccinations 204,947
or 47.23 per cent. were successful.
Primary vaccination done
by the District Staff.
8. During 1893-94, 4,550 primary operations were performed by the
District Staff more than in the previous year and of the total
number of primary vaccinations, 369,643 were performed
successfully on children under one year of age against 387,749, or a decrease of
18,106.
Re-vacoinations done by
District Staff.
9 Excluding Kángra, in which district there was the extraordinary number
of 275,844 re-vaccinations performed, the operations done by
the District Staff during the year are less by 56,061 than
last year; this decrease is due to the orders issued from this Department that no
person should be re-vaccinated until seven years had elapsed since the pre-
vious successful vaccination. With regard to the high number of re-vaccina-
tions done in the Kángra district, it should be noted that this is apparently due
to the influence, Pandit Bal Kishen, the Native Superintendent, exercises over
the people of that district, and an enquiry made by this office in November last,
goes to show that the figures given are reliable.
Work done by Special
Staff.
10. The Special Staff performed 94,409 vaccine operations during the
year, of which 58,963 were primary and 35,446 re-vaccina-
tions. Of the primary operations 56,100 or 95.14 per cent.
and of the re-vaccinations 24,121 or 68.05 per cent. were successful. On the
whole the Special Staff performed 19,113 more operations than in the previous
year.
Work done by the Canton-
ment Staff.
11. The number of operations done by the Cantonment Staff were fewer
by 1,208 than in the previous year; the total number of
operations performed during the year being 7,151, of which
4,938 were primary and 2,213 re-vaccinations.
Note.— This does notinclude the Successful operations performed by the Dispensary Staff.