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Primary
vaccinations
done by the District Staff.
Statement No. I.
8. The District Staff.—The work of the District Staff was more
satisfactory this year. The number of primary operations
performed by this staff during the year was 547,521 as
against 451,689 in the previous year, showing an increase
of no less than 95,832 in the province. It occurred in most of the districts;
in only a few there was deficiency in the work done by the District Staff, but
it was made up by a large number of operations done in those districts,
excepting Muzaffargarh, by the Special Staff. As desired by His Honor the
Lieutenant-Governor in paragraph 6 of the Review of the Vaccination Report
for 1901-02, vaccination was carried on in the plague-infected districts during
the last cold weather, and the result was a considerable increase in the work,
as compared with the previous year, notably in Gurdáspur and Siálkot, in
which it amounted to 15,498 and 11,993. In the districts of Dera Gházi Khan,
Lahore, Umballa, Hoshiárpur, Gujrát and Ferozepore also, the increase was
very great, ranging from 6,310 to 9,657.
Re-vaccinations done by
the District Staff. State-
ment No. 1.
9. The re-vaccinations done by the District Staff amounted to 79,132, or
59,966 less than the number performed in the previous
year in the province. This is accounted for principally
by the large decrease of 37,871 in the district of Kángra, The Civil Surgeon
states that the decrease was due to the villagers, chiefly in the Dehra Tehsil,
opposing re-vaccination on the ground that it was in reality an anti-plague
inoculation which was being performed on them. Re-vaccination has been
so extensively performed in this district in previous years that there is no need
for a large number to be done at present. There was a diminution of 10,565
in the district of Ráwalpindi and an increase of 14,586 in the district of Dera
Gházi Khan.
Percentage of successful
cases. Statement No. I.
10. The percentage of success among primary vaccinations done by the
District Staff was 95.92, and in re-vaccinations 61.01, com-
pared with 95.41 and 59.1 in the previous year.
Ratio of successful cases
per 1,000 of population.
Statement No. 1.
11. The ratio of persons successfully vaccinated by the District Staff
per 1,000 of population was 28.49, against 25.52 in 1901-02
and 29.82 in the previous quinquennium. In the district
of Dera Gházi Khan the rate was as high as 63.01, in
Mooltan 46.1, and in Gurdáspur 40.64. In the districts of Muzaffargarh,
Delhi, Kángra, Gujrát, and Siálkot the rates varied between 33.3 and 35.64.
Work of the
Special
Staff. Appendix to State-
ment No. I.
12. The Specal Staff.—The total number of operations performed by
the Special Staff was 34,288, being 36,978 less than in
1901-02. The decrease in primary vaccinations was
24,471 and in re-vaccinations 12,507. The cause of this
great decrease was the very small number of operations (3,465) performed in
the Simla Hill States during the hot weather ; in the previous six years, the
number varied between twenty-two and thirty-five thousand. An idea originated
among the hill people that plague inoculations were to be carried on under the
guise of vaccinations. So rooted was this idea that nothing could persuade
them to have vaccinations performed. The Vaccinators of the Special Staff
remained idle on this account until their services were utilized in the surveillance
of arrivals from plague-infected areas in the plains into Simla.
Percentages of success in
primary and secondary
vaccinations. Appendix to
Statement No. I.
13. The percentage of success in the primary operations done by the
Special Staff was 85.99, or 4.1 higher than in the previous
year ; the percentage of successful re-vaccinations was
51.84 as against 51.5 in the previous year.
Vaccinations in canton-
ments. Appendix to State-
ment No. I.
14. The Cantonment Staff.— The number of operations performed in
cantonments which entertain their own Vaccinators was
3,909 primary and 2,488 secondary, the figures for the
previous year being 3,739 and 1,692 ; the percentage of
success in primary cases was 92.04 and in re-vaccinations 72.39 as against 92.75
and 71.75 in 1901-02.
Vaccinations by the Dis-
pensary Staff. Statement
No. III.
15. The Dispensary Staff.—There were only 206 operations done by
the Dispensary Staff, 110 of these were primary and 96
secondary. Among primary cases 99.09 per cent. were
successful and in re-vaccinations 96.88 per cent.