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Sanitary Commissioner ... ... ...
Deputy Sanitary Commissioner ... ...
Thirty-one Civil Surgeons ... ... ...
Six Divisional Inspectors ... ... ...
Thirty-four District and Special Native
Supervisors. ... ... ...
Total
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TOTAL INSPECTIONS.
Primary.
1899-1900.
5,522
2,205
67,760
123,197
487,167
685,851
1898-99.
5,199
3,081
42,876
117,895
398,103
567,154
Re-vaccination.
1899-1900.
564
54
12,372
31,169
70,373
114,532
1898-99.
267
4
6,050
27,367
63,001
96,689
PERCENTAGE OF SUCCESS.
Primary.
1899-1900.
96.54
95.74
98.61
97.69
98.62
98.42
1898-99.
98.04
92.08
97.31
97.19
97.68
97.52
Re-vaccination.
1899-1900.
67.55
81.49
75.69
74.08
77.59
76.38
1898-99.
64.04
50.00
66.00
85.13
67.85
72.61
Of the total number of primary vaccinations inspected, viz., 685,851, I
inspected 5,522 and found 96.54 per cent. successful. The Deputy Sanitary
Commissioner inspected 2,205 and the percentage of successes was 95.74. The
Civil Surgeons of the 31 districts in the Province inspected 67,760 primary and
12,372 re-vaccinations as compared with 42,876 and 6,050 in the previous year,
or nearly double the number inspected in 1898-99. The greatest number of
inspections were made by the Civil Surgeons of Gurdáspur, Mooltan, Siálkot,
Ferozepore, Jullundur, Hoshiárpur and Jhang. Statement No. V gives in detail
the amount of inspections done by the different supervising officers and the per-
centages of success. The inspection work of the Divisional Inspectors and the
34 Native Supervisors is very satisfactory. I would remark here that owing
to such thorough inspection the fudging of returns by Vaccinators has been
reduced to such a minimum that only two reports of irregular work were
brought to my notice this year.
Different kinds of lymph.
14. The following statement compares the results
of the different kinds of lymph used with those in 1898-99:—
Vaseline lymph
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Animal lymph ... ... ... ...
Human lymph
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...
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Primary vaccina-
tion.
1898-99.
97,945
540,362
23,630
1899-1900.
158,976
566,370
19,571
Percentage of
successful,
operations exclud-
ing unknown from
the total.
1898-99.
93.60
99.20
99.37
1899-1900.
96.81
99.31
99.27
Re-vaccination.
1898-99.
14,183
157,920
6,828
1899-1900.
29,779
156,357
12,021
Percentage of
successful,
operations exclud-
ing unknown from
the total.
1898-99.
70.92
73.65
75.71
1899-1900.
80.10
77.75
68.52
158,976 primary and 29,779 secondary operations were performed with
vaseline vaccine against 97,945 and 14,183 in the previous year, and the per-
centage of success was 96.81 for primary and 80.10 for re-vaccinations against
93.60 and 70.92. This description of lymph was more extensively used and with
better results than in the previous year. As the Vaccinators learn to apply the
vaseline vaccine the results will improve.
Protective efficiency of
the vaseline vaccine paste.
15. As directed in Government of India's letter No. 638, dated the 16th
February 1899, and Punjab Government No. 410 of 29th
March 1899, Captain E. Wilkinson, I. M. S., Deputy
Sanitary Commissioner, Punjab, gives the following account of his experiments
regarding the protective efficiency of the vaseline vaccine paste :—
In my last year's report I made some remarks about the appearance of the scars
resulting from vaseline vaccine paste, and I said that in my experience these showed
the pitted appearance better than did those produced by buffalo lymph. These remarks
were the result of a general impression only, but this year I made notes on the appear-
ance of the scars of a number of children with the following results:—Of 296 children
successfully vaccinated with vaseline vaccine paste of whom I have notes, 273 showed
well pitted scars, or 92.23 per cent., while of 211 children successfully vaccinated with
buffalo lymph only 170, or 80.57 per cent. showed well pitted scars. No selection was
made in the children thus examined. It seems to me therefore that there can be no
doubt as to the efficacy- of vaseline vaccine paste in producing scars that “present that