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Staffs, there was an increase of Rs. 148 on account of travelling allowance
and of Rs. 544 under contingencies. There was a decrease, however, of
Rs. 79 under the cost of District and Cantonment establishments, so that the
net increase was Rs. 613.
The salaries drawn by the 6 Divisional Inspectors have not been shown
in the cost statements submitted by the Civil Surgeons. But from a statement
furnished by the Accountant-General it appears that these officials drew
a sum of Rs. 3,550 from 1st October 1894 to 28th February 1895, and by
adding this sum to the District and Cantonment Staffs the net increase comes
to Rs. 4,163.
Cost of each successful
operation.
4. The average cost of each successful vaccination was one anna and
nine pies* as compared with one anna and six pies during
the preceding year.
General results of vaccin-
ation.
5. The total number of vaccinations performed by all establishments
was 909,842 (500,879 males and 408,963 females).
During the previous year the total operations amounted
to 1,056,805 (581,597 males and 475,208 females), showing a decrease of
146,963 in 1894-95. The total primary vaccinations were 657,582 or 72,420
more than in the previous year. In the number of re-vaccinations performed
by all establishments there was a decrease of 219,383.
Work of District Staff.
6. The total number of vaccinations done by the District Staff was 817,346,
of these 592,992 were primary and 224,354 secondary
operations, the corresponding numbers for the previous
year being 520,189 and 433,924, respectively, showing an increase of 72,803 in
primary vaccinations, and a decrease of 209,570 in re-vaccinations in 1894-95.
The decrease in secondary operations was most marked in the district of Kángra,
in which the number fell from 275,844 to 119,941. The percentage of success
in primary vaccinations was 93.75 and in re-vaccinations 47.32 against 94.21 and
47.23, respectively, during the previous year. The increase in primary
operations was most noticeable in the districts of Gujrát, Jhelum, Hissár,
Lahore, Ráwalpindi, Gurdáspur, Gujránwála, Shahpur, Siálkot, Jhang, and
Ferozepore, in which it varied between 4,407 and 8,634.
The results noted above show that the directions given to Civil Surgeons
to discourage indiscriminate re-vaccination, and to have a larger number of
primary vaccinations performed by their staffs were attended to. There were
only two districts in which there was a large decrease in primary vaccinations,
viz., in Jullundur (7,620) and in Dera Gházi Khan (3,414). The Civil Surgeon
of Jullundur attributes the decrease to " very severe sickness and high mortality
among children last autumn." He adds that " a great many children were so
weak that vaccination would have endangered their lives or caused them much
suffering and inconvenience." The decrease in Dera Gházi Khan district is said
to be due to the prevalence of malarial fevers. The number of primary
operations performed successfully on children under one year of age by the
District Staff was 433,536 against 369,643 in 1893-94 and 387,749 in 1892-93.
Work of the Special Staff.
7. The Special Staff performed 58,578 primary vaccinations and 24,657
re-vaccinations during the year, as compared with 58,963
and 35,446 respectively in 1893-94. The number of primary
operations is almost the same in both years. The decrease in re-vaccination
is stated by the Deputy Sanitary Commissioner to be '' due in all probability
to the stringent orders recently issued against the custom which was formerly
in vogue of re-vaccinating Chamárs or low-caste children yearly to swell the
numbers." The percentages of success in primary and secondary operations
done by the Special Staff were 93.49 and 50.31 against 95.14 and 68.05 in
1893-94.
Work of Cantonment
Staff.
8. The Cantonment Staff vaccinated a total of 6,987 persons, i. e., 4,929
primary and 2,058 secondary vaccinations, the numbers for
the previous year being 4,938 and 2,213, respectively.
The percentage of primary cases successfully vaccinated was 96.19 against 94.67
in 1893-94, and re-vaccinations 66.86 against 67.65.
* Note.—In this calculation the amount paid to the Divisional Inspectors is not included.