No.72/1510.
FROM
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL C. J. BAMBER, I.M.S.,
Sanitary Commissioner, Punjab,
To
H. A. CASSON, ESQUIRE, C.S.,
Judicial and General Secretary to Government, Punjab,
Dated LAHORE, 1st July 1901.
SIR,
I have the honor to submit the prescribed vaccination statements for
the year 1900-01 with the following brief remarks.
Number of vaccinations
performed by different es-
tablishments.
2. In Statement No. 1 are given the vaccinations
performed by the District Vaccination Staff, the Special
Staff, the Cantonment Staff, and the Dispensary Staff.
The aggregate number of
operations performed by
all establishments.
3. The results for the year show that the aggregate number of
operations performed by all establishments was 782,496,
being a decrease of 160,578 as compared with the number
vaccinated in the previous year. This is accounted for by
the decrease of 150,031 births this year and also by the fact that in the previous
year very many more vaccinations were performed than the average of the years
1898-1899. Of the total operations performed 627,754 were primary and
154,742 re-vaccinations. Of the primary vaccinations 592,824 were successful
and 97,544 of re-vaccinations.
The percentage of success for primary vaccinations was 94.44 and for
re-vaccinations 63.04.
Total number of opera-
tions performed by sex and
Age.
4. Among males and females 430,945 and 351,551 respectively were vac-
cinated. Of the total successful primary vaccinations,
462,392 were performed upon infants under one year of age,
118,918 upon those over one and under six years, and
11,514 upon children of the age of six years and over. The number successfully
vaccinated per 1,000 of population was 33.27 against 39.96 in the preceding
year, or a decrease of 6.69.
Strength of the vaccina-
tion establishment.
5. The strength of the vaccination staff of the year was nearly the same as
that employed in the previous year, viz., 6 Divisional
Inspectors, 34 Native Supervisors, 40 1st class Vaccinators,
78 second class Vaccinators, and 184 third class Vaccinators, or a total of
302 Vaccinators as compared with 303 last year.
Cost of department.
6. The aggregate cost of the Department amounted to Rs. 1,01,539
as compared with 1,00,224 in 1899-1900, an increase of
Rs. 1,315 only, which was chiefly under the head of
travelling allowance of the Deputy Sanitary Commissioner
and the Special Staff.
Work of the district
staff.
7. The Vaccinators of the District Staff performed .692,666 vaccina-
tions, i.e., 555,031 primary, 137,635 re-vaccinations; of
the primary vaccinations 95.49 per cent. were successful
and of re-vaccinations 64.02 per cent. The decrease in the number of vaccina-
tions performed by this staff, as compared with the previous year, was 150,564,
and is most noticeable in the districts of Hissár, Rohtak, Karnál, Umballa,
Ferozepore, Lahore, Gurdáspur, and Siálkot. This decrease is ascribed to the
following causes and was to be expected. In Hissár, Rohtak, and Karnál, it is
ascribed (1) to the high mortality and sickness amongst children and to a small
birth-rate, (2) to the return to the Native States of all poor families who
were working in the famine camps, and (3) to the difficulty of procuring buffalo
calves in the villages for vaccination purposes, owing to the great mortality
among the cattle.