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Primary vaccination.
7. Of the 934,110 persons vaccinated 515,877 were males and 418,233
females, so that for every 100 males there were 81 females
vaccinated. There were 645,871 primary vaccinations
done during the year, of which 618,268, or 95.73 per cent., were successful. Of
the persons successfully vaccinated for the first time 483,638 were infants under
one year of age. Excluding cantonments, there were 759,049 births registered
in the Province during 1889, and during the year the number of recorded deaths
among children under one year of age was 156,607. There were thus, approxi-
mately, 602,442 children under one year of age alive on the 31st December 1889,
and, excluding cantonments, there were 481,111 children under one year of age
vaccinated during the season 1889-90, so that about 80 per cent. of the infant
population of the Province were successfully vaccinated during the year. Last
year there were 668,458 cases of Primary Vaccination, and of these 635,875, or
95.13 per cent., were successful.
Re-vaccination.
8. In the review of the Sanitary Report for 1888, it is noted that His
Honor the Lieutenant-Governor is disposed to think that
the subject of re-vaccination has not hitherto received so
much attention as it deserves. In connection with this remark, a circular was
issued to all Civil Surgeons on the 11th of November 1889, requesting them to
use every endeavour to persuade the people to allow their children to be re-
vaccinated on their attaining a suitable age. I have now to report that 288,239
persons were re-vaccinated during the year, and of the operations done 146,014,
or 50.66 per cent., were successful. This is a substantial increase on last
year's numbers; in 1888-89 there were 273,837 cases of re-vaccination, and of
these 142,600, or 52.07 per cent., were successful.
DISTRICT STAFF.
The vaccination perform-
ed by the District Staff.
9. There were altogether 853,676 vaccinations performed by the District
Staff during the year, 27,969 more than the large number
vaccinated last year. In last year's Report it was noted
that the amount of work done in the Kángra District was abnormally large,
Pandit Bálkishen having succeeded in vaccinating 240,784 persons, or
nearly one-third of the population of the district. The number vaccinated in
that district during the year under review was again very large, though the
cases fell short of those of last year by 57,093. Excluding the district of Kángra,
in which these abnormally large numbers of vaccinations were done in both years,
there were 669,985 vaccinations done by the District Staff during the year, or
85,062 more than the number vaccinated last year.
The number of re-vacci-
nations performed by the
District Staff of Vaccina¬
tors.
10. The District Staff performed 276,657 re-vaccinations during the year
as compared with 255,300 in 1888-89. In both years a
very large number of re-vaccinations were done in the dis-
trict of Kángra under the supervision of Pandit Bálkishen.
If that district be excluded, there were 122,336 persons
re-vaccinated by the District Staff during the year, or 49,101 more than last year
when 73,235 operations of that nature were done. Of the total number re-
vaccinated in the Province by the District Staff, 140,937 were done successfully,
or 50.94 per cent. Last year there were 133,322 persons, or 52.22 per cent.,
successfully re-vaccinated.
After Kángra the work of re-vaccination received most attention in the
district of Gujránwála, where 28,939 operations were done. Much attention was
given to re-vaccination in Amritsar and Gurdáspur, in which districts, respectively,
23,412 and 12,269 persons were re-vaccinated. This subject was also well attended
to in the districts of Jhang, Mooltan, Hoshiárpur and Gurgáon ; the numbers
re-vaccinated in these districts were respectively 8,307, 8,026, 7,268 and 5,919. The