7
Districts.
Kurnool —cont.
No.
3
4
5
Particulars of vaccination.
Number successfully vaccinated
under one year.
Number of persons successfully
vaccinated per 1,000 of popu
lation.
(a) Primary vaccination (per
centage of success).
(b) Re-vaccination ( do. )
No.
District
Health
Scheme,
1921-22.
10,912
25.2
62.7
15.5
Partial
introduc
tion of
District
Health
Scheme,
1922-23.
8,993
23.5
67.9
22.7
Full
District
Health
Scheme,
1923-24.
13,764
36.3
82.9
27.7
Increase
over
1921-22.
2,852
11.1
20.2
12.2
Increase
over
1922-23.
4,771
12.8
15.0
5.0
23. It is gratifying to observe that all the districts with the exception of
Vizagapatam, the Nilgiris, Chingleput and the Agency show considerable in
crease in the total operations performed during the year as compared with the
previous year.
The districts which showed the largest increases were Guntūr (+28,443),
Tanjore (+23,134), Malabar (+ 22,461), Kistna (+ 20,022), Trichinopoly
( + 13,184), North Arcot ( + 11,806), Cuddapah ( + 11,666) and Salem (+10,553).
The slight fall in the district of Vizagapatam (—724) was attributed to the
diminished prevalence of smallpox and the consequent reduction in the number
under re-vaccination as also to the damaging effects of cyclone during the latter
part of last year which affected adversely the activities of the department. The
decrease in the Nilgiris ( — 41) where the District Health Scheme was not in force
is very small and almost negligible. In the case of Chingleput, the decrease
( — 2,724) was due to the long cessation of routine vaccination work for 4 months
against 2 months during the previous year and to the utilization of first-class
vaccinators for a time in the district for cholera work. The total number of
operations performed in the Agency areas was 66,271 against 75,311 during the
previous year, there being a decrease of 9,040 cases. This is explained by the fact
that in Vizagapatam Agency, where the decrease was 8,160 there was 4
months' cessation of routine vaccination work as against 2 months in the last
official year and in Gōdāvari Agency, which showed a fall (— 2,082) 2 posts of
vaccinators out of 3 were vacant during the year under report for 2 and 3
months, respectively.
24. The subjoined table shows the results of primary and secondary vacci
nations and re-vaccinations performed by all agencies :—
Establishment.
(1)
Local Fund
vaccinators.
Government
vaccinators.
Municipal
vaccinators.
Cantonment
vaccinators.
Dispensaries ...
Medical subordi
nates.
Total ...
Number of successful
vaccinations.
1922-23.
Primary
vaccination.
(2)
896,474
14,981
96,948
5,245
140
1,232
1,015,020
Re-vaccination.
(3)
54,165
544
41,794
1,596
26
12,581
110,706
1923-24.
Primary
vaccination.
(4)
1,149,187
16,852
109,620
5,850
143
842
1,282,494
Re-vaccination.
(5)
83,627
561
33,283
2,611
47
7,256
127,385
Total number of
successful
vaccinations.
1922-23.
(6)
950,639
15,525
138,742
6,841
166
13,813
1,125,726
1923-24.
(7)
1,232,814
17,413
142,903
8,461
190
8,098
1,409,879
Ratio per cent of success
ful cases.
1922-23.
Primary
vaccination.
Re-vaccination.
(8)
78.5
70.7
89.0
84.1
94.0
72.2
79.2
(9)
31.3
36.6
52.6
24.5
57.8
63.2
39.5
1923-24.
Primary
vaccination.
(10)
89.7
83.7
94.4
93.3
96.6
73.0
90.0
Re-vaccination.
(11)
39.7
22.2
55.1
29.8
96.0
43.3
42.6
Ratio per
cent of total
successful
cases.
1922-23.
(12)
72.1
66.0
73.7
53.7
85.6
64.0
78.2
1923-24.
(13)
82.6
76.8
80.9
56.3
96.4
45.2
81.7