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Work of Dispensary Staff.
9. The number of persons vaccinated by the Dispensary Staff was 2,274,
of which 1,083 were primary vaccinations and 1,191 re¬
vaccinations. In 1893-94 the Dispensary Staff performed
only 1,072 primary and 60 re-vaccinations, thus showing an increase of 1,142 in
the total number performed in 1894-95. Of the 1,191 re-vaccinations performed
during the year under review, 996 were done in Simla, with a percentage of
38.96 of success.
Vaccinations with ani-
mal lymph.
10. The number of operations done with animal lymph in the Province
was 798,151 out of 909,842, or 88 per cent. of the total
operations.
Vaccination inspections
by Sanitary Commissioner.
11. I inspected vaccination work in some of the Hill States of Simla
during the months of September and October 1894, and
during January, February and March 1895 I saw the
work done in the districts of Siálkot, Gurdáspur, Amritsar and Kángra. The
, results of my inspections are given in the following statement :—
6 Cicatrices.
1,236
5 Cicatrices
239
4 Cicatrices
278
3 Cicatrices.
61
2 Cicatrices
(bad).
7
1 Cicatrix.
10
No marks.
30
Total.
1,861
I spent nearly a whole month in the Kángra valley with the object
of inquiring into the accuracy of the enormous number of primary and re¬
vaccinations performed in the Kángra district in 1893-94 by the Vaccination
Staff, under the supervision of Pandit Bál Kishen, and was quite satisfied that
they were actually done. Mr. Anderson, the Deputy Commissioner, and the
Civil Surgeon have added their testimony to my investigations, and I fully
endorse the remarks made by Dr. Clarke, late Civil Surgeon of Kángra, that
this almost incredible number of re-vaccinations was performed through the
Pandit's influence over the people in that district and his power of making the
vaccinators under him work honestly. A separate report on this subject has
been submitted to Government.
Inspections by Deputy
Sanitary Commissioner.
12. The Deputy Sanitary Commissioner inspected 1,068 primary
operations and 134 re-vaccinations, the percentages of cases
found successful being 98 and 97, respectively. During
the cold weather the Deputy Sanitary Commissioner was engaged under my
instructions in examining the health of towns and villages in the districts of
Hoshiárpur, Ludhiána, Jullundur and Umballa.
Inspections by Civil Sur-
geons and District Super-
visors.
13. During the year the percentages of inspections by Civil Surgeons
of primary vaccinations and re-vaccinations to total number
vaccinated were 9.07 and 3.88, and by District Supervisors
59.02 and 30.08, respectively. The percentages of cases
found successful of the total number inspected were—
By Civil Surgeons
...
...
...
...
By District Supervisors ... ... ...
By Vaccinators ... ... ... ...
Primary.
93.79
96.94
93.74
Re-vaccinations.
58.23
62.91
47.58
Places in which Com-
pulsory Vaccination Act
was introduced.
14. The Compulsory Vaccination Act, XIII of 1880, was extended to the
municipalities of Beri and Dalhousie, and was under con-
sideration for the municipality of Kaithal and the remaining
portion of the Delhi Municipality during the year 1894-95.
Vaccinations with don-
key and goat lymph.
15. I give as an appendix Dr. Dyson's Report on Vaccination for 1894-95.
Dr. Dyson states that donkey lymph has now been used
for the last 5 years by the Special Staff and yields very
satisfactory results; but in regard to the use of goat lymph, he says he has been
unable to carry out any series of experiments owing to his constantly moving
about.
Small-pox diagram.
16. The diagram showing the death-rates from small-pox during the
year 1894-95 and the proportion of successful vacci-
nations, district by district, during the years 1881-82 to
1894-95, per 10,000 of population is appended. As desired by His Honor the
Lieutenant-Governor, the districts are arranged from left to right in the order
of the height of the black lines.