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Of the 626,917 persons vaccinated (340 vaccinated by the Lahore Dispen-
sary Establishment, and 56 by the Sabathu Cantonment Staff, having been
excluded, the necessary information not having been given by these two establish-
ments) 341,591 were males and 285,326 females. For every 100 males there
were, therefore, about 84 females vaccinated. The total number of persons
successfully vaccinated during the year was 583,929 ; of these 573,093 were cases
of primary vaccination, and 10,836 were successful re-vaccinations. During the
year 1885-86 there were 563,103 successful primary vaccinations and 8,671
persons were successfully re-vaccinated. The percentage of successful primary
vaccinations for the present year was 95.11, very nearly the same as 94.74, the
successful percentage of last year. 47.91 per cent. of last year's re-vaccination
cases were successful, whereas, this year the percentage was only 43.75.
DISTRICT STAFF.
District Staff. General
results.
5. There were 570,586 vaccinations performed by the District Staff
during the year, being, as above noted, 19,780 more than
the number performed during 1885-86. Of these, 550,788
were cases of primary vaccination, and, it is reported that 523,845 of these
operations were successful. The total number of successful primary vaccinations
last year was 508,323, being a percentage of 94.73. This year 95.11 per cent. of
the primary operations are reported to have been successful. In this percent-
age 20,079 cases, the results of which could not be ascertained, are reckoned
as unsuccessful, were these to be altogether excluded from the calculation, out of
530,709 primary vaccinations, 523,845 were successful, being at the rate of
98.71 per cent.
Re-vaccinations.
6. The District Staff re-vaccinated 19,798 persons during the year, and,
in the case of 8,413 of these the result was successful, the
percentage of successful vaccinations being 42.49. Last
year the number of re-vaccinations was 14,196, and 6,758 of these, or 47.60 per
cent. were done successfully. It is gratifying to find that the number of re-vacci-
nations is steadily increasing. During the present year there were 5,602 more
persons re-vaccinated than there were during last vaccinating season, and
13,088 more than during the year 1884-85. Last year the largest number of
re-vaccinations was done in the Jhang district. The Civil Surgeon evidently
keeps up his interest on this subject, and consequently the number done this
year in his district is again large, but a larger number was done in Gujránwála. In
the Gujránwála district the number of re-vaccinations done was 6,344 and in
Jhang 4,120 were re-vaccinated. Considerable attention has also been paid to
this subject in the Lahore, Amritsar and Jullundur districts during the present
season, in which, respectively, 2,592, 1,443, and 1,422 re-vaccinations were
performed.
Ratio per 1,000 of persons
successfully vaccinated.
7. During the five years 1881-82 to 1885-86 the total average number
of persons successfully vaccinated by this establishment,
was 477,160, they, on an average, having vaccinated 25.32
per 1,000 of the population annually. This year there were
30.52 per 1,000 of the population successfully vaccinated, and there were 55,098
more successful vaccine operations performed than the average of the previous
five years. The year was certainly a healthy one and therefore more vaccinations
were done than if the season had been unhealthy, but taking into account that
the staff vaccinated so many more than they did last year, which was also
healthy, I consider that the increase in the number of successful vaccina-
tions tends to prove that, on the whole, vaccination is gradually becoming
more popular in the Province. It must, however, be noted that there were ten
more vaccinators in the District Staff than there were last year.
The districts in which
more vaccinations were
done in 1886-87 than in
1885-86.
8. The following statement gives the districts in
which the vaccine operations performed in 1886-87 are more
numerous than those done in 1885-86 :—