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numbers for last year having been 595,134 and 255,008. Of the primary vaccina-
tions done during the year, 588,625, or 94.85 per cent. were successful and 54.21
per cent. of the re-vaccinations were successful.
Work of district staff.
7. There were 729,660 vaccine operations performed by the district
staff during the year as against 767,767 during 1890-91, a
decrease of 38,107. The primary operations amounted to
567,597 and the cases of re-vaccination to 162,063. Of the primary vaccinations
95.03 per cent. and of the cases of re-vaccination 54.48 per cent. were success-
ful.
Primary vaccinations
done by district staff.
8. There were 29,447 more primary operations performed by the
district staff than in the previous year. Of the total
number of primary vaccinations 419,141 were successfully
performed on children under one year of age as against
401,674 in 1890-91, an increase of 17,467. Seeing that there were 37,164 fewer
births recorded in the province in 1891 than in the previous year, the results of
the operations among infants for the year under review must be considered as
satisfactory.
Re-vaccinations done by
district staff.
9. There were 67,554 fewer cases of re-vaccination done by the district
staff than during the previous year. During the vaccinat-
ing season of 1890-91 several Civil Surgeons reported
that vaccinators in their districts were in the habit of
vaccinating children who had been vaccinated only one or two years previously.
A circular was accordingly issued to the effect that no person should be re-vac-
cinated till a period of seven years had elapsed since the previous successful
vaccination, and the result has been that many fewer persons have been re-
vaccinated.
Special staff.
10. There were 72,009 vaccine operations performed by the special staff
during the year, of which 43,979 were primary and 28,030
were re-vaccinations. Of the cases of primary vaccination
92.64 per cent. were found to be successful, and the percentage of successful
re-vaccinations was 52.46. The special staff did 6,287 fewer primary vaccina-
tions and 5,178 more re-vaccinations than during the previous year.
Cantonment staff.
11. The cantonment staff did 5,298 primary vaccinations and 1,084
re-vaccinations during the year as against 4,114 primary
and 1,933 re-vaccinations in 1890-91. The percentage of
primary vaccinations found to be successful was 94.66, and 80.44 per cent. of
the re-vaccinations are said to have been successful.
Dispensary staff.
12. There were 4,649 persons vaccinated at dispensaries, an increase
of 1,439 on the figures of last year. Of those vaccinated,
3,730 were primary vaccinations and 919 were cases of
re-vaccination, the percentages found to be successful having been respectively
93.32 and 29.49.
Progress of animal lymph
vaccination.
13. The popularity of the method of vaccination by animal lymph in
this province continues to increase. There were 702,004
operations performed by this method during the year as
against 581,664 in 1890-91 and 246,105 in 1889-90. In 16 of the 31 districts
of the province practically the whole of the work of the district staff was done
with animal lymph, and in 8 of the remaining 15 districts the great majority
of the operations were done with the same kind of lymph. In Jullundur and
Ferozepore animal lymph is not so popular as it is in the neighbouring districts,
though many more vaccinations were done by this method in both these districts
in 1891-92 than in the previous year. Bannu was the only district in which
vaccination with animal lymph remained decidedly unpopular. In that district
only 1,145 out of 10,699 vaccinations were performed by this method. There
were 48,804 vaccinations done with animal lymph by the special staff as against
42,814 in 1890-91. The vaccinators of this staff are gradually overcoming the
prejudices against animal lymph of the Hindu inhabitants of the Hill States.
Result of inspection.
14. The following statement gives the result of my inspection of primary
vaccination :—