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being afforded to the Vaccinators by the collection of families at the relief
camps. In the Districts of Umballa, Hoshiárpur and Gujrát the decrease in
work amounted in each case to over 5,000 vaccinations. The great decrease of
9,070 in the Umballa District was due to a falling-off of 9,020 in re-vaccinations,
which shows that attention is being paid to orders it was found necessary to issue
in past years prohibiting indiscriminate re-vaccination. In other cases also the
falling-off was due to the same cause : also to famine-stricken persons leaving
their homes in search of a livelihood.
Paragraph 9.
5. The increase of work in the Cantonment Staff in both primary and
re-vaccinations was also satisfactory.
Paragraph 10.
6. The Special Staff performed 75,273 primary vaccinations, this being
the highest number yet recorded to its credit
in any one year. Its work was also good on the
whole. The Lieutenant-Governor is glad to observe that the returns submitted
by the Vaccinators are believed to be more reliable than in previous years.
Paragraph 11.
Paragraph z6.
7. Kángra, which is the best vaccinated district in the Province, enjoyed
complete immunity from small-pox throughout the
year 1899-1900. Pesháwar, the least vaccinated
district, had a severe attack, 2,288 deaths having been registered from the
disease. In this district the people are averse to vaccination, and the re-
prehensible practice of inoculation is common. In Gurgaon, which stands about
midway with the other districts of the Province in respect to the proportion of suc¬
cessfully vaccinated population, small-pox is attributed to opposition to vaccination
in the town of Rewári. His Honor observes with regret that the members of the
Municipal Committee are among the obstructionists, and trusts that the active
measures being taken to overcome this opposition may bear good fruit. He
quite thinks that the appointment of a man of good caste and tact, such as Rái
Bahádur Bál Kishen, might be productive of much good, if opposition is really
strong. The statistics, however, of operations on
children for the past year in the Gurgaon District
are not unsatisfactory.
Paragraph 13.
8. Inspection work taken as a whole was carried out vigorously. It is
satisfactory to note that the efforts of the Divi-
sional Inspectors in this direction have largely
prevented the falsifying of returns by the Vaccinators.
Paragraphs 14 and 15.
9. Owing to his deputation on plague duty, Captain Wilkinson, Deputy
Sanitary Commissioner, was unable to complete
a series of experiments he had received orders to
undertake with a view to ascertain the degree of protection conferred by vaccin-
ation with vaseline vaccine paste. The result of what little he was able to do
is, however, encouraging. The further experiments suggested by the Sanitary
Commissioner should be carried out.
10. Vaccination continued to receive attention in those Native States
which keep up their own Vaccination Staff. In
Baháwalpur and Máler Kotla the perhaps unprece-
dented result of 100.00 per cent. of success in re-vaccinations was attained.
The 'numbers, however, re-vaccinated were small. In the British District of
Kurram the percentage of successful results fell off as compared with the year
1898-99 from 98.09 to 93.69 in primary cases, and from 84.67 to 62.39 in
re-vaccinations.
Paragraph 18.
11. In accordance with orders received from the Government of India,
the Sanitary Commissioner furnishes statistics of
the incidence of vaccination on children in towns.
The figures as might be expected go to show that as a general rule vaccination is