Triennial Report on Vaccination in the United Provinces of Agra
and Oudh for the years 1905-06, 1906-07 and 1907-08.
Period covered by the report.
1. THIS report deals with the triennial period 1905-06 to 1907-08, but
more especially with the last year, as brief notes
have been submitted for the preceding two years.
Officers in charge of the
Department.
2. During the period under report the charge of the office of Sanitary
Commissioner and Superintendent General of Vacci-
nation, United Provinces, was held by me from 1st
April 1905 to the end of March 1906, and again from
20th January 1908 to 31st March 1908, and by Lieutenant-Colonel S. J. Thomson,
C.I.E., I.M.S., from 1st April 1906 to 16th January 1908.
Area under vaccination.
3. The area under vaccination remained unaltered
during the period under report.
Constitution of the Depart-
ment.
(Statement No. II.)
4. No change has taken place in the constitution of this department
during the triennium under report except that, as
stated last year, the appointments of vaccinators
made after the 27th November 1906 were declared
non-pensionable, and the appointments of tube-fillers attached to the districts of
Almora, Garhwal and Dehra Dun were abolished from 17th October 1906 in
consequence of the reorganization of the staff attached to the bovine lymph depôt
at Patwa Dangar (Naini Tal).
Strength of the Department.
(Statement No. II.)
5. There has been no change in the number (50) of assistant superinten-
dents of vaccination in 1907-08. In 1905-06 the
number of these officials was 49 (including one for
the Native State of Tehri-Garhwal), but an addi-
tional assistant superintendent of vaccination having been posted to Gorakhpur
in 1906-07, the number was increased from 49 to 50 in that year. In 1907-08 the
number of vaccinators was 931, as compared with 934 in 1906-07, and 933 in
1905-06—the average number during these three years being 933 against 920 in
the preceding triennium.
Expenditure on vaccination.
(Statement No.II.)
6. The expenditure on vaccination amounted to Rs. 1,62,530 in 1907-08 as
compared with Rs. 1,50,971 in
1906-07 and
Rs. 1,53,241 in 1905-06—the average annual expendi-
ture during these three years being Rs. 1,55,581
against Rs. 1,42,884 in the preceding triennium. The increase is chiefly due to the
purchase from England of bacteriological instruments and apparatus for the bovine
lymph depôt at Patwa Dangar (Naini Tal), and also to the fact that in 1907-08 there
were two full-time Deputy Sanitary Commissioners for about eight months of the
year—one in charge of each circle. Out of the total expenditure of Rs. 1,62,530
during 1907-08, a sum of Rs. 1,41,206 was spent on establishment, Rs. 3,921 on
travelling allowance and Rs. 17,403 on contingencies—the expenditure on the
bovine lymph depôt amounting to Rs. 6,717. The expenditure was met from
different funds—a sum of Rs. 1,12,584 having been paid from provincial funds
(which include district boards'funds), Rs. 14,349 from local funds, Rs. 26,629 by
municipalities and Rs. 8,968 by native states in 1907-08 against Rs. 1,05,589,
Rs. 12,587, Rs. 24,441 and Rs. 8,354 under the same heads respectively in 1906-
07 and Rs. 1,04,917, Rs. 15,398, Rs. 23,624 and Rs. 9,302 in 1905-06.
Average cost of each success-
ful case of vaccination.
(Statement No. II.)
7. The average cost of each successful case of vaccination during 1907-08
was one anna and four pies, against one anna and
three pies in the preceding two years, excluding the
pay, etc., of the Deputy Sanitary Commissioners and
their offices ; but including these charges the cost of each successful case of vacci-
nation was one anna and seven pies against one anna and six pies in the preceding
two years. The reasons given in the foregoing paragraph for the increase in
expenditure on vaccination explain the increase under this head also.