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Honorary Magistracies. It is useless for the District Officer to talk. The
opponents of vaccination say "I go" and go not. They declare vaccination a
most excellent thing, and repeat its merits with the utmost glibness, and then go
off and do what they can, by passive resistance, to prevent its spread."
Mr. Purser's long district experience gives great value to his opinion,
and I quite agree with what he says in the above quoted extract from his
report. The people of this Province, as a rule, are desirous of having their
children vaccinated, and they, for the most part, would willingly bring them
forward for vaccination were it to be made compulsory.
In the event of Government not seeing its way to have resort to compulsory
vaccination in the larger Municipalities just yet, Mr. Purser suggests that all
persons appointed hereafter to any post under Government should be compelled to
get themselves vaccinated the first cold weather after appointment, if not already
vaccinated or distinctly marked with small-pox, and that all officials should be
compelled to get their children vaccinated, when in a good state of health, under
pain of dismissal. This proposal seems a good one, because, were officials to come
to see that no harm, but only good, resulted to themselves and their children
from vaccination, they would become more zealous in its cause than some of them
are at present.
Prevalence of inoculation
in certain districts of the
Province.
28. The practice of inoculation continues to be resorted to in different
parts of the Province, especially in the Frontier districts.
The Civil {Surgeons of Pesháwar, Kohát, Bannu, Dera
Ismail Khan, Shahpur, Jhang, Montgomery, Jhelum and
Kángra, state in their reports that it is a principal cause of the propagation of
small-pox in their districts.
The people of every part of these different districts can now, without any
difficulty, have their children vaccinated, and as vaccination is becoming more
popular, I trust Government will soon be able to see their way to prohibit, by
law, the practice of inoculation.
It has been proposed to request professional inoculators to come to the
Sadr Station of their respective districts in order to learn how to vaccinate,
with the view to their being employed, in the future, as vaccinators. The pro-
posal seems to be worthy of consideration, and I have written to the Civil Sur-
geons of the districts, in which inoculation is practised, asking them to find out
whether the inoculators would be willing to become vaccinators.
The Municipal Commit-
tees who are reported to
have given little or no as-
sistance in the cause of
vaccination in the past
season.
29. It was noted in last year's report that the Municipal Committees of
several towns in the Province had given little or no assist-
ance to the vaccinators. The Committees of the towns of
Rohtak and of Nur Mahal in the Jullundur district, are again
reported to have given very little aid. Besides these two,
the Committees of the Municipalities of Peshawar, Gujrát,
Amritsar, Mooltan, and Bhiwáni in the Hissár district, are stated to have given no
real assistance during the past vaccinating season.
SPECIAL STAFF.
General result of the
Special Staff.
30. The following statement gives the general result of
the work done by the Special Staff during the year :—
Average number of vacci-
nators.
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NUMBER OF PERSONS
VACCINATED.
Male.
24,554
Female.
21,757
Total.
46,311
Average number of vaccina-
tions done by each vacci¬
nator.
2,105.05
PRIMARY VACCINATION.
Total.
43,532
Successful.
Under one year.
26,799
One year and un-
der six years.
12,796
Total of all ages.
41,697
RE-VACCINA¬
TION.
Total.
2,779
Successful.
1,203
PERCENTAGE OF
SUCCESSFUL CASES.
Primary.
95.78
Re-vaccination.
43.29