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being 94.66 and 80.44 respectively. In Pesháwar cantonment the percentage
of success in re-vaccinations was very high, 507 cases having been,
reported successful out of a total of 550. In Ráwalpindi 720 are reported to
have been successful out of a total of 1,121 re-vaccinations and in Mián
Mír 450 out of 771. In the Review of the Vaccination Report for last
year His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor asked for an explanation of the
cause of the very large number of successful cases of re-vaccination in the
cantonments as compared with the number reported in the Province generally
This high percentage of successful re-vaccinations was noticed last year princi-
pally in the cantonments of Pesháwar, Siálkot, Mián Mír and Umballa. The
reasons given by the Inspecting Officers were—first, that in a good many cases
the persons re-vaccinated had been inefficiently vaccinated in the first instance,
and secondly, as in the case of Pesháwar, nearly all the cases re-vaccinated had
been vaccinated a considerable number of years previously and were consequently
more likely to be susceptible to the action of cow-pox lymph than children
who had been vaccinated only a few years previously.
Dispensary
Vaccination.
Dispensary vaccination.
24. It will be seen from Statement No. III appended to this Report
that there were 2,039 persons vaccinated by the Dispensary
Staff during the year. This number consists of 1,484
Primary and 555 re-vaccinations, the largest number of operations, viz., 882, 379
and 359 were performed by the Dispensary Staff in the districts of Jhang,
Lahore and Hoshiárpur, respectively.
Last year the total number of operations performed was 4,649, so that
during the year under review there was a decrease of 2,610 vaccinations, of
the 1,484 Primary vaccinations 1,343 or 90.50 per cent. were successful. The
percentage of success last year was 93.32. Only 184 out of the 555 cases of
re-vaccination proved successful, a percentage of 33.15 as compared with 29.49
in the previous year.
Vaccination with animal
lymph.
25. 93 per cent. of the total vaccine operations in the province
were performed with animal lymph. In 24 out of the 31
districts vaccination work was almost entirely carried
on with buffalo lymph. In three districts, viz., Jullundur, Kángra and
Ferozepore this method of vaccination was comparatively unpopular, the
percentages of vaccination performed with animal lymph in these districts being
64, 73 and 74. In the districts of Ferozepore and Kángra, however, the system
seems to have been more popular during this year than in 1891-92 when the per-
centages were only 47 and 65 respectively. In Jullundur nearly the same number
of vaccinations were done as in the previous year. The Civil Surgeon states
that "there has been no improvement over the previous year in the matter
of providing buffalo calves for lymph purposes in the district, for people state
that their calves are injured by being used for lymph purposes; this is only an
excuse, and if they were paid as in the municipal towns they could be induced
without difficulty to lend their buffalo calves." In the Kulu subdivision of the
Kángra district buffalo calves are not procurable except in the lower parts of
the valley. In the remarks on the vaccination statements for 1891-92 reference
was made to the unpopularity of vaccination by animal lymph in the Bannu
district. In that year only 1,145 out of 10,699 or 11 per cent. of the total cases
were performed with animal lymph. During the year under review
very
rapid progress was made in Bannu, the percentage having risen to 69. In the
districts of Gujrát, Pesháiwar and Dera Ismail Khan the percentages of vaccina-
tions with animal lymph were 88, 86 and 80 respectively. It is hoped that in
the seven districts named above, in which vaccination with human lymph is still
in vogue to some extent, efforts will be made next year to replace this system
entirely by animal lymph vaccination.
Vaccination inspections
by the Sanitary Commis-
sioner.
26. The following statement shows the result of
cases of primary vaccinations inspected during the year
by Dr. Stephen, the Sanitary Commissioner.