No. 22/1639.
FROM
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL C. J. BAMBER, I.M.S.,
Sanitary Commissioner, Punjab,
To
A. B. KETTLEWELL, ESQUIRE, C. S.,
Judicial and General Secretary to Government, Punjab,
Dated LAHORE, the 1st July 1904.
SIR,
I have the honor to submit, for the information of His Honor the Lieu-
tenant-Governor, the prescribed Vaccination Statements for 1903-04, with the
following remarks :—
Administration.
2. I was in charge of the Vaccination Department throughout the year.
Captain W. F. Harvey, I.M.S., held the appointment of
Deputy Sanitary Commissioner during the year. In April
he finished the work of testing plague prophylactic on which he was specially
employed. During the hot weather months he inspected the vaccination work,
and in winter, in addition to the supervision of the work of the Special Staff of
Vaccinators, he carried out further experiments on vaselinated and glycerin-
ated vaccine pulp asked for by Government.
Strength of the Vaccin-
ation Establishment. State-
ment No. II.
3. The appointments of Divisional Inspectors of Vaccination and the
Registration of Births and Deaths for the Lahore and
Mooltan Divisions were filled up during the year. Each of
the five Divisions of the Province has now its own Inspector
attached to it. There were twenty-eight Superintendents of Vaccination,
or one more than last year ; one Superintendent was sanctioned during the
year for the lately constituted district of Miánwáli. The average number of
Vaccinators employed during the year was two hundred and sixty or three less
than in 1902-03.
Cost of the Department.
Statement No. II.
4. The total cost of the Department, which amounted to Rupees ninety-
two thousand and seventeen during the year, shows a
decrease of Rupees one thousand six hundred and eighty-
three, as compared with last year, on account of reduction in the expenditure
chiefly under the heads of (a) Pay of Deputy Sanitary Commissioner, (b) Pay
of Vaccinators, and (c) Contingencies.
Average cost per success-
ful case. Statement No.
II.
5. The average cost of each successful operation during the year was
two annas and four pies, showing a very satisfactory de-
crease, compared with the previous year, of two pies, in
consequence of lesser expenditure and larger number of
successful operations performed during the year.
Total vaccinations per-
formed by all establish-
ments. Statement No. I.
6. The total amount of work done by all establishments was greater
than in the preceding two years. The returns show an
increase, in round numbers, of seventeen thousand and
five hundred vaccinations, as compared with the previous
year, and about seventeen thousand over the number performed in 1901-02.
This is satisfactory, taking into account the great prevalence of plague in this
Province.
Number of vaccinations
and re-vaccinations
by
sexes. Statement No. I.
7. As directed by the Government of India, the number of cases of primary
vaccination and re-vaccination are shown by sexes in the
returns. It will be seen that, of the total cases primarily
vaccinated by all establishments, fifty-three per cent. were
among males and forty-seven among females ; and, of those re-vaccinated, sixty-
two per cent. were among males and thirty-eight per cent. among females,