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District Vaccination.—The district vaccination was done by the district
vaccinators, under the supervision of the native supervisor, by zails, thánas
and tahsíls. The staff was divided into couples, one couple proceeding to have
the lymph supply ready in convenient villages of the zails, the remaining four
couples following the first and performing operations. All the tahsíls were over-
hauled. Operations in the larger towns of Jandiála, Tarn Táran, Botári, Ajnála
and Majiths, and certain villages on main roads, Were inspected by the Civil
Surgeon.
GURDASPUR.
The vaccination establishment entertained, and the annual cost thereof,
during the years 1882-83 and 1883-84 are as below :—
Establishment
Native supervisor
...
...
...
1st class vaccinators ... ... ...
2nd „ „ ... ... ...
3rd „ „ ... ... ...
Total ...
1882-83
Number
1
1
3
7
12
Annual
cost
Rs.
480
180
432
840
1,932
1883-84
Number
1
1
3
7
12
Annual
cost
Rs.
480
180
432
840
1,932
Total vaccinations (including primary and re-vaccina-
tions) ... ... ... ...
Successful cases ... ... ... ...
Percentage of successful cases ... ... ...
Persons successfully vaccinated per 1,000 of population
Average number vaccinated by each vaccinator ...
Cost of each successful case ... ... ...
1882-83
24,386
21,936
89.96
26.63
2,216.90
Re. 0-1-7
1883-84
31,352
27,093
87.25
33.03
2,850.18
0-1-3
The work performed
by the above establish-
ment during the two years
is shown in the margin.
The average number of operations returned by the vaccinators of this
district during the year is 31,352, being an increase of 6,966 over the number
vaccinated in the previous year. There were 27,093 primary cases returned as
successful against 21,936 in the previous year, and the percentage of success
87.25 as compared with 89.96, being a decrease of 2.71. The number of
re-vaccinations was 302 against 2 of previous year. The number successfully
vaccinated per mille of population was 33.03 against 26.63 in the preceding
year; increase 6.40. The aggregate cost amounted to Rs. 2,166 as compared
with Rs. 2,183, a decrease of Rs. 17, and each successful case cost Re. 0-1-3,
decrease Re. 0-0-4.
Two thousand three hundred and thirty-six primary vaccinations were
inspected by the Civil Surgeon (Dr. G. Thomson), of which 2,299 were found
to be successful, the ratio of success being 98.41 per cent.
From the 1st June to the 25th September 1883, 2,103 villages were
inspected by the vaccination staff. Vaccine operations were performed under
the native supervisor, and the work was frequently inspected by the Civil
Surgeon. All the vaccinators worked in a body during the vaccinating season.
On sending the men into a tahsíl notice is given to the tahsíldár and zaildárs
that operations are about to commence. The work is done by zails, and all the
zails of one thána of the tahsíl are finished before proceeding to the next thána.
In this way inspection is rendered much easier than if the men were spread all
over the tahsíl at one time. The whole of the district, including large towns
and small villages, is vaccinated alone by the district staff. The Civil Surgeon
proposes to take a native supervisor and three vaccinators to Dalhousie to keep
vaccine operations going during the months from April to October 1884, among
the inhabitants of the sanitarium and neighbouring villages, as nothing was done
in the hot months of the preceding year.