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In addition to the above I inspected during the month of April the work done by
the Special Staff in Jullundur city and tahsíl during the month of March with the
following results :—
NAMES OF PLACES.
Julhundur tahsíl ...
Total number of villages
inspected.
53
Total number of persons
inspected.
1,967
Males.
1 ,070
Females.
897
Primary.
1,930
Re-vaccinations.
17
Primary with marks.
6
658
5
212
4
270
3
197
2
183
1
214
0
210
Re-vaccinations
with marks.
Three or more.
8
2
1
1
1
0
7
REMARKS.
Special Staff work.
I found, as the result of my inspection, that the percentage of successful cases of
primary vaccinations performed by the Special Staff was 91.18 or excluding the results of
my inspections during April 92.49. Here, as before, all cases are considered as
"successful" which show even one good mark. The vaccinations of the District Staff of
the Shahpur District, which I inspected in the Bhera tahsíl, gave percentage of successful
cases of only 67.50, while the successful cases of the Umballa Cantonment Vaccinators
amounted to 99.11 per cent. It will be noticed that the results of my inspections seem
to be more favorable to the work of the Vaccinators than are their own reports, for
whereas I found 91.18 of the cases I inspected to be successful, the Vaccinators returned
a percentage of success of only 88.73. This difference, however, is due to the fact
that I only include in my statistics the children that I see, while the Vaccinators are
required to consider as " unsuccessful " all vaccinations the results of which are " unknown."
In order to compare results of my inspection with the returns of the Vaccinators
it is necessary to exclude from the latter all cases shewn as" unknown." Thus if the
5,207 cases shown as unknown in this year's returns (Statement No. III ) be deducted
from the total number of vaccinations, 62,196, it will be found that the number
of operations shown by the Vaccinators as " successful" namely 55,158, amounts to 96.97
per cent. of the cases actually inspected by them. that is, more than five per cent in their
favor than were the results of my inspections. I have already made some remarks on the
subject of my inspections of re-vaccinations.
16. The subjoined table shows the number of vaccinations performed with different
kinds of lymph and the percentages of successes. In accordance with the custom hitherto
followed the results which are unknown have been excluded in the preparation of the table,
and all cases showing even only one good mark have been included as " successful." With
your permission I shall in future reports, only consider such vaccinations as successful as
result in not less than three marks :—
KIND OF LYMPH USED
Buffalo calf
...
...
Vaseline ... ... ...
Human
...
...
...
Total ...
PRIMARY
Successful.
24,477
30,321
360
55,158
Unsuccessful.
614
1,217
1,831
Unknown.
1,962
3,230
15
5,207
Total
27,053
34,768
375
62,196
RE-VACCINATIONS.
Successful
3,193
5,068
117
8,378
Unsuccessful.
1,156
1,769
17
2,442
Unknown.
1,252
2,143
27
3,422
Total.
5,601
8,980
161
14,742
PERCENTAGE OF SUC
CESSES EXCLUDING UN-
KNOWN CASES IN
Primary.
97.55
96.14
100.00
96.73
Re-vaccination.
73.42
74.13
87.31
74.01
It will be observed that human lymph gives the highest percentage of success
both in primary and re-vaccination, though the number of vaccinations performed with
this lymph is so small as to be of little value for comparison with the results of buffalo
lymph and vaseline vaccine paste. It will also be noticed that while buffalo lymph gives
a slightly higher percentage of success in primary vaccinations than vaseline vaccine
paste the results of the latter are the more successful in re-vaccinations. Taking
primary and re-vaccinations together buffalo lymph gives a percentage of successful cases
of 93.99 and vaseline vaccine of 92.22. There has been an improvement in the results
given by vaseline vaccine paste in primary vaccinations as compared with the two previous
years that it has been in use, the percentage of successful cases this year being 96.14
while last year it was 95.02, and in 1896-97 95.66. The corresponding figures for
re-vaccinations are 74.13, 75.12 and 66.02, respectively. The tables given below show
the percentages of successful cases month by month for human and buffalo lymph and
vaseline vaccine paste. The lower table simply shows the same details in the form of a