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Hoshiárpur District.
Simla
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Hill States.
Ráwalpindi District.
Hazára
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Vaccination from buffalo-calves continues to make progress. Much less difficulty is now
experienced in getting people to accept animal vaccination. The consequence is that
76,704 vaccinations were done during the year with animal lymph, as against 73,361 the
year before. This shows an increase of 3,343. But this includes 356 vaccinations which
were done with donkey lymph in Tahsíls Jagádhri and Sirsa and Kalsia State, where
donkey foals were very easily procurable.
Changes in the Special Staff.—None.
Expenditure.—The
average cost of each successful vaccination this year was two
annas 7 pies, as against 4 annas 8 pies the previous year. This saving has been due to
the fact that there was no Deputy Sanitary Commissioner for nearly three months, and
that the pay of the present officiating officer is much less than that of the permanent
officer.
Inspections.—The Deputy Sanitary Commissioner inspected 3,019 primary and 634
re-vaccinations. This number is larger than last year, but would have been much larger
had there not been the above-mentioned gap of nearly three months when there was no
Deputy Sanitary Commissioner. There is also another gap in the cold weather, when the
Deputy Sanitary Commissioner was put on special duty with Professor Haffkine and when
inspections of vaccinations were not done.
The Deputy Sanitary Commissioner found 84.86 per cent. primary and 49.21 per
cent. re-vaccinations successful. These numbers are much lower than those given by the
Vaccinators themselves and by the Native Supervisors. But these people count a single
vesicle however small or modified as successful. It is hardly necessary to state that nothing
is " successful" in vaccination which does not prevent the person taking small-pox ; such a
vesicle as described above will not protect against small-pox. This is easily proved by
re-vaccinating the child. It will usually give more or less typical vesicles, while a child
successfully vaccinated " will not take."
The Depôts at Murree and Amritsar.— These depots for the supply of lymph have
been continued. Murree for the hot weather and Amritsar for the cold.
The annual supply to the plains was sent out from Murree between September 23rd
and 30th on account of the great difficulty experienced in getting the lymph started in
the plains the year before, extra precautions were taken this year. The Deputy Sanitary
Commissioner had everything done under his own personal supervision. The lymph
was very carefully selected, sealed up in tubes and despatched on the same day it was
collected. Last year four supplies were sent out of bovine lymph, and this was followed
by three supplies of human lymph before all the stations had been supplied.
This year, building on this experience, the first supply was buffalo lymph, the
second human, and the third buffalo. After this the Deputy Sanitary Commissioner
waited for results. They were as follows :—
1st Supply September 3rd, to 31 Districts.
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Tubes broken in transit or not used ... ... ... ...
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