( 2 )
as compared with the preceding one—the average figures being 33.21 and
30 81 respectively. The percentage of successful primary vaccinations in
which the results were known was 97.62 in 1904-05 against 97.83 in 1903-04
and 97.90 in 1902-03. Although there was a slight decrease under this
head in the last year as compared with the preceding two years, the average
percentage has risen to 97.78 in the triennial period under report from 97.34 in
the preceding triennium. The number of successful revaccinations during 1904-05
was 77,209 as compared with 85,795 and 86,128, respectively, in 1903-04 and
1902-03, the average for the triennium under report being 83,044 against 57,345 for
the preceding three years, which is very satisfactory.
In view of the fact that plague was more widespread in these Provinces
during the triennium under report and much more so in 1904-05, these results must
be regarded as satisfactory.
Successful primary vaccina-
tions in different districts. (State-
ment I).
8. Thirty-one districts show an increase in the number of successful primary
operations in 1904-05 as compared with 28 in the
preceding year. Fatehpur heads the list with an
increase of 4,226 followed by Gonda with 4,099. Then
in order come Pilibhít with 3,385, Bahraich with
2,650, Basti with 2,562 and Gorakhpur with 2,534. Out of 17 districts (including
the native state of Tehri-Garhwál) showing decrease in the number of successful
primary vaccinations, Aligarh stands first with a decrease of 4,525. Muttra follows
with 3,940. Then in order come Agra with 3,915, Bareilly with 2,157, Tehri-
Garhwál with 2,095 and Mirzapur with 1,912. The decrease in the first four
districts was due to the prevalence of plague. In Tehri-Garhwál the decrease is
said to be partly due to the temporary deputation of some vaccinators to help the
tube-filler in filling tubes and partly to the slackness of one vaccinator who has been
dismissed; while in Mirzapur it is said to be due to the prevalence of plague and
also to the fact that some vaccination work was done in April 1903, while no work
was done in April 1904.
Successful vaccination and
degree of protection afforded
thereby. (Statement I).
9. Garhwál stands first in 1904-05 as regards the number of persons success-
fully vaccinated per 1,000 of population as in the
previous five years, the figures being 96.91 for 1904-05
and 92.54 for the last five years. As a result of the
protection afforded, the average annual death-rate
from small-pox in Garhwál during previous five years was nil. Almora comes
next with 66.46 persons successfully vaccinated per 1,000 of population in 1904-05
and 63.30 in the previous five years—the average annual death-rate from small-
pox during the previous five years being .02. Then in order come Sítapur with
65.61 persons successfully vaccinated per 1,000 of population in 1904-05, Pilibhít
with 51.63, Hamirpur with 45. 99, and Hardoi with 44.45, the average annual number
of persons successfully vaccinated per 1,000 of population, and the average annual
death-rate from small-pox, in these districts during previous five years being 51.14
and .01, 38.50 and .09, 39.80 and .16 and 46.01 and .19 respectively. The districts
showing the lowest numbers of persons successfully vaccinated per 1,000 of popula-
tion during 1904-05 were Allahabad with 21.76, Farrukhabad with 23.27, Partáb¬
garh with 24.28, Unao with 25.22 and Muttra with 26.30. Taking the previous
five-year figures, the average annual number of persons successfully vaccinated per
1,000 of population and the average annual death-rates from small-pox in these
districts were 20.61 and .35, 23.47 and .02, 27.66 and .58, 26.73 and .29 and 31.33
and .03 respectively. The Deputy Sanitary Commissioners have been requested
to tour in these districts during the ensuing cold weather with a view to improve
the work. The work in the Allahabad district is particularly bad and the vaccina-
tion staff there is constantly giving trouble.
Mortality from smallpox.
10. The death-rate from small-pox in 1904 was .15 against .46 in 1903 and
.10 in 1902, the quinquennial average being .13.
Small-pox, as might be expected from the poor results,
was worst in Allahabad, 1,234 deaths being registered in the district from this cause.
Diagram.
11. A diagram showing the relation between the death-rate from small-pox
and the proportion of population protected by vacci-
nation in each district, is attached.