Triennial report on Vaccination in the United Provinces of Agra
and Oudh for the years 1908-9,1909-10 and 1910-11.
Period covered by the report.
This report covers the triennial period 1908-9 to 1910-11, but it deals more
especially with the last year as brief notes have
already been submitted on the work of the preceding
two years.
Officers in charge of the de-
partment.
2. During the triennium under review the charge of the office of Sanitary
Commissioner and Superintendent-General of Vacci-
nation, United Provinces, was held by Lieutenant-
Colonel J. Chaytor White, I.M.S., from 1st April
1908 to 25th March 1910, and by me from 26th March 1910 to 31st March 1911,
while. Lieutenant-Colonel J. Chaytor White was on leave.
Constitution of the department.
3. In 1908-9 the Family Domains of His Highness the Maharaja of
Benares, which formerly had been included in the
Benares and Mirzapur districts, were constituted a
separate district for vaccination purposes and the vaccination statistics of the
Domains have since then been shown separately in the vaccination reports and
returns. In 1910-11, with the approval of Government, the control of vaccination
in the Native State of Tehri-Garhwal was taken over by the Tehri Darbar and
the vaccination statistics of that State have therefore been omitted this year.
Otherwise the area under vaccination to which the report refers is the same as
formerly.
Strength of the department.
(Statement II.)
4. In 1908-9 a separate assistant superintendent of vaccination was
appointed for the Family Domains of His Highness
the Maharaja of Benares, raising the number of
these officials to 51, and in 1910-11, for the reasons
given above, the assistant superintendent of vaccination of the Native State of
Tehri-Garhwal was placed under the control of the Tehri Darbar. There were
thus 50 assistant superintendents of vaccination in 1910-11 against 51 in the
preceding two years. As-regards vaccinators, the number employed in 1910-11
was 933 as against 931 and 927 (including the Tehri staff) in 1909-10 and 1908-9
respectively—the average number for the triennium under report being 930 against
933 in the preceding triennial period.
Expenditure on vaccination.
(Statement II.)
5. The total expenditure on vaccination in 1910-11 amounted to Rs. 1,69,758
as compared with Rs. 1,70,699 in 1909-10 and
Rs. 1,76,944 in 1908-9—the average annual expenditure
for the triennium under report being Rs. 1,72,467 as
against Rs. 1,54,881 for the preceding triennial period. The increase is chiefly
due to a greater expenditure on the provincial Bovine Lymph depôt at Patwa
Dangar, the operations of which, as explained below, have largely extended during
the triennium under report and to the increased purchases of calf lymph from the
depôt by the different local bodies for the use of the vaccinators employed under
them. It is also in part due to the employment of two full-time Deputy Sanitary
Commissioners for a longer period. The decrease in 1910-11 as compared with
1909-10 is chiefly due to the fact that one Deputy Sanitary Commissioner held
charge of both circles for nearly half the year.
A consideration of the total expenditure under different heads shows that
Rs. 1,35,546 was spent on establishment (including Deputy Sanitary Commissioners
and their offices) in 1910-11, Rs. 29,383 on contingencies (including Rs. 9,188 spent
in the Bovine Lymph Depôt) and Rs. 4,829 on travelling allowance as against
Rs. 1,43,242, Rs. 23,300 and Rs. 4,157 respectively in 1909-10 and Rs. 1,45,836,
Rs. 25,010 and Rs. 6,098 in 1908-9. Out of the Rs. 1,69,758 total expenditure,
Rs. 1,06,586 was paid from Provincial funds (including district boards' funds),
Rs. 26,980 from local funds, Rs. 28,654 by municipalities and Rs. 7,538 by Native
states against Rs. 1,14,866, Rs. 19,385, Rs. 28,610 and Rs. 7,838 respectively in
1909-10 and Rs. 1,24,718, Rs. 15,537, Rs. 29,714 and Rs. 6,975 in 1908-9.
In the above figures the monies spent by the Native State of Tehri—Garhwal
in 1909-10 and preceding years have been excluded for purposes of comparison.