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There were 581,664 animal lymph vaccinations done, as against 246,105
in the previous year. This large increase shows that the method of animal
lymph vaccination is becoming more popular in the Province, and I believe
that in a few years it will entirely take the place of the arm-to-arm method.
In every district, with the exception of Bannu, a considerable number of animal
lymph vaccinations were done. The districts in which animal lymph was
principally used were Rohtak, Gurgáon, Karnál, Simla, Mooltan, Jhang, Lahore,
Amritsar, Gurdáspur, Siálkot, Gujránwála, Ráwalpindi, Hazára, Kohát, and
Muzaffargarh. Animal lymph was also extensively used by the special staff,
and the Deputy Sanitary Commissioner states that the Rájás of Sirmúr,
Chamba, and Mandi gave much assistance to the vaccinators who carried
out animal lymph vaccination in their respective States.
Percentages of cases
found successful after in-
spection.
15. I inspected 3,597 primary vaccinations during the year, and found that
3,344, or 93 per cent., were successful. The Deputy Sani-
tary Commissioner inspected 3,970 vaccinations, of which
3,726, or 94 per cent., were successful. The Native Super-
visors of the special staff inspected 22,430 cases of primary vaccination and
8,565 re-vaccinations. They stated that 22,134 of the primary vaccinations and
5,985 re-vaccinations were successful, the respective percentages of successful
operations having been 99 and 70.
Civil Surgeons inspected 49,514 cases of primary vaccination and
19,485 re-vaccination, and the percentages found successful were respectively
95.54 and 68.62. Assistant Surgeons inspected 11,394 primary vaccinations,
and found 96.41 per cent. of them successful.
Of 2,070 re-vaccinations
inspected by Assistant Surgeons, 68.21 per cent. were successful. Native Super-
visors of districts inspected 353,098 primary vaccinations and 127,036 cases of
re-vaccination, and the percentages found successful by them were respectively
97.91 and 62.89.
The work inspected by me was for the most part good, but that of two
vaccinators in the Gurgáon district was very bad. One of the men was
dismissed, after warning, and the other was fined, and the children who had
been unsuccessfully vaccinated were vaccinated a second time.
Result of experiments
made with animal lymph
mixed with lanolin.
16. The report by Surgeon-Major King, acting Sanitary Commissioner
of Madras, on experiments with animal lymph mixed
with lanolin, was forwarded to me by the Punjab Govern-
ment in November 1890, with the request that similar
experiments should be made in this Province. Experiments similar to those
described by Dr. King were made by Dr. Dyson, the Deputy Sanitary Com-
missioner, and by Dr. Hendley, the Civil Surgeon of Pesháwar, and the reports
and tables which they were good enough to submit are given as appendices to
this report. The experiments done by them show that vaccine lymph mixed with
lanolin gives fairly good results after it has been kept for a considerable length
of time. A set of experiments made by Dr. Dyson also shows that animal
lymph stored in tubes for 28 days is as efficacious in the Punjab as lymph mixed
with lanolin in the proportion of 1 to 6 stored for 33 days.
Vaccination work done
in large Native States.
17. The following statement gives the number of vaccinations, with
results, performed during the year in the large Native
States from which returns have been received :—