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The number of persons successfully vaccinated per 1,000 of population was
28.42 in 1910-11, 27.33 in 1909-10 and 28.19 in 1908-9—the average for the three
years being 27.98 as compared with 33.60 for the preceding triennium.
For the purposes of comparison with the year under report (1910-11) all
returns for the Native State of Tehri-Garhwal have been excluded from the above
figures for 1909-10 and preceding years.
There was an increase of work done under all heads except revaccination in
1910-11 as compared with 1909-10 and a decrease under all heads, including
revaccination, in the triennium under review as compared with the preceding
triennial period. The decrease in revaccination in 1910-11 has been generally
ascribed by the District Superintendents of Vaccination to the prevalence of plague
and in some cases also to the deputation of vaccinators to the Magh Mela and
the United Provinces Exhibition at Allahabad and the appointment of inexperienced
substitutes who could not do the same amount of work, but much of the decrease
was also due in my opinion to the absence of small-pox. In the presence of this
disease the protection of revaccination is much sought for but when it is in
abeyance, as was the case last year, the operation is postponed. As additional
causes contributing to the decrease there may also be mentioned the facts that
in the hill tracts the people formerly thought that revaccination was compulsory
but are now learning that it is not so and in Naini Tal much revaccination work
was done in 1908-9 when small-pox was prevalent there. In those districts where
it would appear that the vaccinators have not been taking sufficient interest in
the work they have been warned.
The general decrease in the triennium under report is not satisfactory but
was due to the causes detailed above and also to the very widespread prevalence of
malaria in the autumn of 1908 and its ill-effects on the birth-rate and on the
health of the infantile population.
Successful primary operations
in different districts.
(Statement I.)
8. Excluding the Native State of Tehri-Garhwal and including the Family
Domains of His Highness the Maharaja of Benares,
39 districts showed an increase in the number of
successful primary operations in 1910-11 as compared
with 1909-10 and 32 as compared with 1908-9. Out
of 39 districts, Aligarh returned the greatest increase (8,024) and was followed
by Gorakhpur with an increase of 6,185. Then in order came Bareilly with 5,049,
Hardoi with 4,976, Muttra with 4,807, Agra with 4,803, Bara Banki with 3,533,
Budaun with 3,434 and Moradabad with 3,053. Among the 10 districts showing
a decrease in 1910-11 in comparison with the preceding year, the most conspicuous
were Ghazipur with a decrease of 2,976, Fyzabad with 1,774, Sultanpur with 1,311,
Cawnpore with 1,231 and Jaunpur with 1,104. The general cause of decrease was
plague on account of which people left their villages and scattered hither and thither
often to other districts, but in Ghazipur slackness on the part of some vaccinators,
who have been punished, and the appointment of one vaccinator less are given as
additional causes and in Jaunpur the falling off is attributed in part by the
District Superintendent of Vaccination to the facts that vaccination work was
continued in 1909-10 during the months of April and May on account of the
prevalence of small-pox and that fewer vaccinators were employed in 1910-11.
Successful vaccination and
degree of protection afforded.
(Statement I.)
9. In 1910-11 Garhwal, as usual, heads the list of districts showing thegreatest
number of persons successfully vaccinated per 1,000
of population with 66.45 as compared with 99.92 in
1909-10 and 113.03 in 1908-9—the average annual
number of persons successfully vaccinated, and the
average annual death-rate from small-pox, per 1,000 of population during the
previous five years being 111.67 and .01 respectively. Naini Tal comes next with
53.23 persons successfully vaccinated per 1,000 of population in 1910-11 as compared
with 54.99 and 64.84 respectively in 1909-10 and 1908-9—the average for the
preceding five years being 54.30. The average annual death-rate from small-pox
during the previous five years was .17. After Naini Tal in order came Almora with
52.58, 51.47 and 66.19 persons successfully vaccinated per 1,000 of population in
1910-11, 1909-10,and 1908-9 respectively, Jhansi with 52.48, 47.27 and 39.79,
Hamirpur with 43.65, 41.47, and 43.38 and Hardoi with 40.11, 35.76 and 34.85—
the average annual number of persons successfully vaccinated, and the average
annual death-rate from small-pox, per l,000 of population, during the previous