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CANTONMENT VACCINATION.
Cantonment vaccina¬
nation.
Sabathu.
Mooltan.
D. G. Khan.
Abbottabad.
Jullundur.
Ferozepore.
Jhelum.
D. I. Khan.
Kohat.
31. Vaccination operations in the Cantonments of this Province were
conducted in the same manner as stated in para. 13 of last year's
report. In 9 cantonments, as shown in the margin, the
operations were carried on by the District Staff. The total
operations performed were 2,603, of which number 2,285
were primary and 318 re-vaccinations. The percentage of
successful cases were, primary 94.83, re-vaccinations 85.53.
There are now five cantonment vaccinators employed, as
already stated.
These five men operated on 4,214 persons, and the
percentage of successful cases was 91.11 for primary and 59.21 for secondary
vaccinations.
DISPENSARY VACCINATION.
Dispensary vaccina-
tion.
32. The total dispensary vaccination during the year under review amounted
to 4,668 against 4,501 in the previous year, showing a slight
increase of 167. The operations were performed by Assistant
Surgeons, Hospital Assistants, Compounders, Hakims and Dressers in the
Dispensaries or Hospitals situated in the following eleven districts:—Delhi,
Gurgáon, Umballa, Kángra, Gurdáspur, Lahore, Gujrát, Shahpur, Jhang, Dera
Ismail Khan and Pesháwar. The largest numbers of operations were performed
in Gujrat 1,156, Jhang 973, Pesháwar 734, Dera Ismail Khan 574. Of the
total of 4,339 primary vaccinations, 3,985 or 91.84 per cent. were successful.
The total re-vaccinations were 329 of which 222 were found successful. Almost
all the re-vaccinations were done in the districts of Jhang and Pesháwar, as will
be seen from the statement No. III given in the Appendix.
Some of the civil and medical authorities are in favour of district
vaccination work being performed through the agency of the Dispensary staff,
and have made certain proposals on the subject in their Annual Reports. I
have already referred the matter to Government in a separate communi-
cation on which. His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor has observed
that "so long as the Medical and Sanitary Departments are separately main-
tained, the Lieutenant-Grovernor recognises the fact that inconvenience may
be caused by placing the immediate supervision of. vaccination in the hands
of persons subordinate only to the Medical authorities.
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At the same time I am to observe that the proposal made by the local
authorities is in accordance with the policy of Government as declared in its
Resolution No. 3261, dated the 10th of September 1881, and specially with the
object set forth in para. 14 of that Resolution, viz., to constitute the Civil
Surgeon head of the Medical administration of his district and to charge him
and the ordinary Medical Staff with supervision of all matters relating* to
vaccination as well as sanitation. The precise method in which this object is
to be attained has not yet been worked out, but it should nevertheless be kept
in view, by yourself, as well as by the Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals,
Punjab."
The attention of Civil Surgeons has accordingly been invited to these
instructions and they have been directed not to propose any changes in the
existing vaccination arrangements without first communicating with this office.
VACCINATION IN NATIVE STATES.
Vaccination in Native
States.
33. The returns of vaccination have been received from the Native
States of Jhind, Kapurthala, Nabha and Patiála. From
Farídkot State only a short report has been received to the
effect that 2,680 children of both sexes were vaccinated during the year,
and that vaccination seems to be doing good in the State. As the returns for
Kapurthala and Jhind do not furnish the detailed particulars of vaccination,
I am unable to show the figures according to prescribed form. In the subjoined
statement, therefore, only the general results of vaccination are given :—