NOTES on Vaccination in the United Provinces for the year
1911-12.
Brief notes on vaccination in
1911-12.
As a detailed report for the triennial period 1908-09 to 1910-11 was
submitted last year, this report deals briefly with
vaccination in 1911-12 as compared with 1910-11.
Constitution and strength of
the department.
(Statement II.)
2. During the year 1911-12 there has been no change in the strength of
the department with the exception that on the 1st of
April 1911 the Family Domains of His Highness the
Maharaja of Benares were constituted "the State of
Benares" and the control of vaccination in that State was taken over, with the
approval of the Government, by His Highness the Maharaja. The vaccination staff
and statistics of the State have therefore been excluded from all the returns of this
year's report. In consequence of this omission during the year 1911-12 the
strength of the vaccination establishment consisted of 49 assistant superintendents
of vaccination and 927 vaccinators against 50 and 933 respectively in 1910-11.
Expenditure on vaccination.
(Statement II.)
3. The total expenditure on vaccination in 1911-12, including the pay,
&c., of the Deputy Sanitary Commissioners and their
offices, amounted to Rs. 1,81,792 against Rs. 1,68,697
in the preceding year ; but if the above named charges
are excluded the expenditure in the year under report amounted to Rs. 1,53,200
against Rs. 1,43,144 during the preceding year. The increase in expenditure in
1911-12 as compared with 1910-11 is chiefly due to the facts that (a) two full-time
Deputy Sanitary Commissioners were employed for a longer period than last year
but, as will be explained in the succeeding paragraph, the expenditure incurred in
the pay and emoluments of Deputy Sanitary Commissioners and their offices should
not be debited to the Vaccination department or shown in Statement II appended
to the report and (b) increased expenditure on the production of calf lymph at the
bovine lymph depôt to meet the demands of local bodies.
Average cost of each success-
ful case of vaccination,
(Statement II.)
4. The average cost of each successful case of vaccination during 1911-12
was one anna and seven pies, or exactly the same as
in 1910-11, if for comparison the Family Domains of
His Highness the Maharaja of Benares are excluded.
In these averages the cost of the bovine lymph depôt and the pay, &c., of the
Deputy Sanitary Commissioners and their offices have not been taken into account,
firstly, because if the expenses of the depôt were included there would be a double
entry of identically the same expenditure returned under the headings—
(a) Government Bovine Lymph Depôt at Patwa Dangar—Cost of lymph
production ;
(b) Total expenditure on vaccination, which includes the cost of lymph
purchased from the depôt by the several districts of the provinces;
secondly, because Deputy Sanitary Commissioners are no longer primarily
vaccination officers but are engaged almost wholly on sanitary duties and only to
a limited extent on vaccination work. The deletion of these figures in the calcula-
tion of the average cost of each successful case of vaccination from Statement II
was approved of by the Local Government in G. O. no. 674/XVI-106, dated the
6th November 1911. The fact that the cost of a successful case of vaccination
remained exactly the same in 1911-12 as in the preceding year although the
expenditure on vaccination was greater is explained by the increase in the number
of vaccinations performed.
In the accompanying table for comparison between the several provinces it
will be seen that the cost of a successful vaccination was bracketted lowest in
Bengal and the United Provinces :—
Name of Province.
United Provinces
...
...
...
Bengal
...
...
...
...
Central Provinces ... ... ...
North-West Frontier Province ... ...
Punjab ... ... ... ...
Eastern Bengal and Assam ... ... ...
Madras ... ... ... ...
Burma ... ... ... ...
Bombay ... ... ... ...
Cost of a successful
case of vaccination during
1911-12.
Rs.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
a.
1
1
2
2
3
3
7
8
p.
7
10
0
8
8
9
5
9