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Districts with the largest
increase in the work of the
District Staff.
11. The districts with the largest increase in the work done by the
District Staff in 1901-02 as compared with the previous
year, were Ráwalpindi, Simla, Hissár and Muzaffargarh.
Excluding the last named district, the increase was in
revaccinations.
Decrease in
primary
vaccinations by the Dis-
trict Staff.
12. There was a total of 442,598 primary vaccinations (excluding
Miánwáli) performed by the District Staff in 1901-02
against 490,357, the corresponding figure in 1900-01,
showing a decrease of 47,759. Of this decrease, nine
thousand each, in round numbers, took place in Gurdáspur and Lahore, six
thousand each in Ludhiána and Umballa and five thousand in Jullundur. So
that about three-fourth of the total decrease took place in these five plague
infected districts.
Revaccinations by the
District Staff.
13. Of the total vaccinations done by the District Staff in 1901-02
there were 139,098 secondary operations. In the district
of Kángra as many as 51,940 revaccinations were done.
In the district of Mooltan the number revaccinated was 16,279 ; in Ráwalpindi
11,536, and in Gurdáspur 9,090. In the districts of Rohtak, Gurgáon, Umballa,
Ferozepore and Miánwáli, the District Staff did very little revaccination
work.
Successful cases accord-
ing to ages.
14. Out of a total of 451,689 primary cases in 1901-02, the number of
successful cases was 430,958, of which 351,945 were among
infants under one year, 73,344 among children between
one and under six years, and 5,669 among those of the ages of 6 and over 6
years. The proportion of successful operations among infants under one year
to total number of successful cases was 82 per cent.
Amount of success in
primary vaccinations by
the District Staff.
15. Among the primary vaccinations done in 1901-02 by the District
Establishment 95.41 per cent. were successful, or almost the
same as in the previous two years. Excepting Ráwalpindi
the percentage of success in different districts varied
between 93 and 99. In Ráwalpindi only 76.06 per cent. of the operations were
successful. This low percentage was due to the use of glycerine lymph, which
the Civil Surgeon states in his report was found generally a failure, and was
therefore discontinued.
Percentage of success
among revaccinations.
16. The percentage among successful cases of revaccinations was
59.1 in 1901-02. This is slightly less than in the pre-
vious two years.
Persons
successfully
vaccinated per 1,000 of
population.
17. The rate of persons successfully vaccinated per 1,000 of population
was 25.52 in 1901-02. It was 5.39 below the average rate
of the previous five years. The deficiency was most
marked in many of the plague infected districts. Thus in
Umballa the proportion in 1901-02 was only 12 per 1,000 against the average
rate of 32; in Hoshiárpur 21 against 45 ; in Ludhiána 16 against 28 ; in Feroze-
pore 14 against 26, and in Gurdáspur 25 against 39.
The districts with the
highest rates of successful
operations.
18. With the exception of Simla, in which, owing to the prevalence of
small-pox, an unusually large number of revaccinations
were done, the highest rates of persons successfully vac-
cinated per 1,000 of population both in 1901-02 and in the
preceding quinquennial period, were in the district of Kángra, viz., 61.24 and
60.7, respectively. And as the result of the exceptionally good work done
in this district, it had the smallest death rate from small-pox. The average
annual number of deaths from this disease registered in Kángra during the
five years ending in 1900-01 was only 17, equal to a death rate of 0.02 per 1,000
against the average provincial rate of 0.61 for the same period.
Appendix to Statement
No. I.
19. The Special Staff. -The vaccinators of the Special Staff performed
a total of 71,266 operations against 80,825 in 1900-01 and
89,242 in 1899-00. These figures show a steady decline
in the work of the Special Staff during the last two years. The decrease in
1900-01 was attributed to the same causes which interfered with the work
of the District Staff. The principal cause of the diminution in the number of