No. 52/1320.
FROM
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL C. J. BAMBER, I.M.S.,
Sanitary Commissioner, Punjab,
To
C. J, HALLIFAX, ESQUIRE, C. S.,
Judicial and General Secretary to the Government, Punjab.
Dated LAHORE, the 1st July 1902.
SIR,
I have the honor to submit, for the information of His Honor the
Lieutenant-Governor, the following triennial Report on Vaccination in the Punjab
for the year 1901-02.
Administration.
2. I was in charge of the Vaccination Department throughout the year.
Captain E. Wilkinson, I.M.S., the Deputy Sanitary Com-
missioner, was employed as Chief Plague Medical Officer
during the year, and had, therefore, very little time to devote to the supervision
of vaccination work.
Exclusion of the Statis-
tics of frontier districts
from the returns.
3. In compliance with the instructions conveyed in your letter No. 1717,
dated the 20th December 1901, the figures for the districts
and tahsils transferred to the North-West Frontier Pro-
vince are excluded from the prescribed Statements attached
to this report, and those for the newly formed district of Miánwáli incor-
porated in them. The population given in the returns is according to the census
of 1901.
Revision of Vaccination
Establishment.
4. During the year 1901-02 the District Vaccination Staff was
regraded. Instead of the two classes of Native Supervisors
on Rs. 40 and Rs. 30 per mensem, three grades at Rs. 55,
Rs. 35 and Rs. 25 per month were substituted. With regard to Vaccinators, the
three grades of Rs. 15, Rs. 12 and Rs. 10 were redistributed in four grades of
Rs. 20, Rs. 15, Rs. 12, and Rs. 10 per mensem. The new scheme was sanctioned
by the Punjab Government in their Resolution No. 885, dated 26th June 1901,
and brought into force on the 1st September 1901.
Strength of the Vacci-
nation Establishment.
5. The strength of the Vaccination Establishment till the 1st Septem-
ber 1901 consisted of 5 Divisional Inspectors, 35 Native
Supervisors, including one Inspector in the Kangra district,
and 302 Vaccinators. From that date there were 5 Divisional Inspectors,
33 Native Supervisors and 283 Vaccinators. After the 9th November 1901,
when the North-West Frontier Province was formed, there remained 3 Divisional
Inspectors, 27 Native Supervisors, and 258 Vaccinators, the remaining 2
Divisional Inspectors, 6 Native Supervisors and 25 Vaccinators were handed
over to form the Vaccination Establishment of the new province. Rái Bahádur
Pandit Bálkishen, who for many years did excellent work as Inspector of
Vaccination in the Kángra District, died in September 1901. His death has
been a great loss to the Department.
Cost of Establishment,
Statement No. IT.
6. In 1900-01 the cost of the vaccination establishment amounted to
Rs. 101,539 or Rs. 1,315 more than in the previous year.
In 1901-02, owing to the changes in the staff referred to in
the preceding paragraph, the expenditure amounted to Rs. 92,045. The details
of the cost under principal heads were as follows: — Deputy Sanitary Com-
missioner, Rs. 9,084; Divisional Inspectors, Rs 5,114; Native Supervisors,
Rs. 13,439; Vaccinators, Rs. 37,249; Clerks, Rs. 12,186; Peons, Rs. 2,731 ;
Travelling Allowance, Rs. 6,168; and Contingencies, Rs. 6,074.