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of working by bodies beginning from one centre followed and directly controlled
by the Native Supervisors who were held responsible for the entire, manage-
ment of the operations. Stringent orders were issued to Civil Surgeons in the
beginning of the year to punish the vaccination staff in cases where they
failed to work on the new system.
Re-vaccinations perform-
ed by District Staff.
12. The District Staff performed a total of 180,564 re-vaccinations; of
these 59.21 per cent. were successful.
Last year the
percentage of success was 59.19 and the total number of
re-vaccinations performed was 188,777. The largest number of re-vaccinations
was done in Kángra (59,583) and in Hoshiárpur (45,095). Thus more than half
the total re-vaccinations were performed in these two districts alone. This is
due entirely to the influence and exertions of Pandit Bal Kishen, the Divisional
Inspector of these two districts.
Work of the Special Staff.
13. There was again an increase this year in the primary vaccinations
performed by the Special Staff, the number being 72,031
against 67,780 in 1896-97, showing an increase of 4,251.
Under the head of re-vaccinations there was a decrease of 3,009 as compared
with the figures for the preceding year, the number performed being 31,104
against 34,113. The percentage of success in primary operations was 88.73
against 86.93 in 1896-97 and in re-vaccinations 69.07 against 61.84.
Work of Cantonment
Staff
14. In the large cantonments, which pay for their own Vaccinators, the
number of primary operations amounted to 5,185 and
re-vaccinations to 1,482 : the corresponding figures for the
previous year being 4,875 and 4,218, the percentage of primary successful cases
was 95.08 and re-vaccinations 80.70. In 1896-97 the percentages were 91.92
and 66.00, respectively.
Work performed by the
Dispensary Staff.
15. The number of primary operations performed by the Dispensary Staff,
which rose from 2,282 in 1895-96 to 3,737 in 1896-97, fell to
1,241 during the year under report. In re-vaccinations
also there was a considerable decrease, the number operated upon being only 567
against 2,227 in 1896-97. The percentage of successful primary operations was
80.50 against 89.11 and of re-vaccination 52.91 against 64.53.
Inspection work.
16. The inspection work of the officers of the Vaccination Department
during 1897-98 as compared with the previous year is
shown in the following table:—
Sanitary Commissioner
...
...
...
Deputy Sanitary Commissioner ...
Thirty-one Civil Surgeons
...
...
Six Divisional Inspectors
...
...
Thirty-four District and Special Native
Supervisors
...
...
...
...
Total
...
...
TOTAL INSPECTIONS.
Primary.
1896-97.
3,428
3,821
62,912
104,719
386,582
561,462
1897-98.
3,556
717
54,005
113,309
386,001
557,588
Re-vaccinations.
1896-97.
755
748
10,799
21,323
71,122
104,747
1897-98.
809
622
4,182
55,251
50,720
111,584
PERCENTAGE OF SUCCESS.
Primary.
1896-97.
9265
9504
9660
98.76
97.69
9766
1897-98.
94.09
95.96
97.34
96.87
98.41
97.97
Re-vaccinations.
1896-97.
66.42
68.53
59.38
53.41
63.47
60.97
1897-98.
67.00
54.34
66.76
87.45
68.59
77.84
Out of a total of 845,491 vaccinations performed in the Province, 669,172,
or 79 per cent., were inspected by the officers of the Department.
The
decrease in the inspection work of the Deputy Sanitary Commissioner was due
to his deputation on plague duty during the entire vaccinating season. There
was a marked deficiency in the work of the Civil Surgeons of Hoshiárpur,
Dera Gházi Khan, Bannu and Muzaffargarh.
In the three last named districts
there was great prevalence of malarial fevers, and probably on this account the
Civil Surgeons could not leave their head-quarters as often as they did in the
previous year. The permanent Civil Surgeon of Hoshiárpur was on plague
duty in his district. In Ferozepore and Gurdáspur the amount of primary in-
spection work was the largest in the Province, being 8,493 and 8,157, respectively.