7
District.
Ganjām ... ... ... ...
Gōdāvari, East
...
...
...
Gōdāvari, West
...
...
Guntūr ... ... ... ...
Kistna ... ... ... ...
Kurnool ... ... ... ...
Madura ... ... ... ...
Malabar ...
...
...
...
Nellore
...
...
...
...
Nilgiris, The
...
...
...
Rāmnad ... ... ... ...
Salem
...
...
...
South Kanara ... ... ...
Tanjore ... ... ... ...
Tinnevelly
...
...
...
Trichinopoly ... ... ...
Vizagapatam ... ... ...
Mettur
...
...
...
...
Total number of opera
tions performed during
triennium ending
1925-26.
205,649
214,387
...
281,975
277,752
124,716
239,223
432,757
167,836
30,393
194,323
257,102
170,484
248,792
241,315
227,598
297,705
...
5,228,372
1928-29.
220,257
203,819
*
275,936
262,589†
126,815
249,411
418,560
175,880
44,972
227,626
262,661
173,936
230,437
207,832
197,381
291,618
...
5,232,028
Increase or
decrease.
+ 14,608
—10,568
*
— 6,035
—15,163
+ 2,099
+ 10,188
—14,197
+ 8,044
+14,579
+ 33,303
+ 5,559
+ 3,452
—18,355
—33,483
—30,217
— 6,087
...
+ 3,656
Total number of opera
tions performed during
the year
1927-28.
70,773
72,160
43,063
95,716
42,153
41,747
85,480
134,953
59,217
13,543
78,355
93,261
53,417
74,591
65,283
68,150
99,867
1,718
1,755,466
1928-29.
71,745
67,616
45,682
87,960
44,294
43,227
82,543
154,338
56,461
17,338
73,463
84,595
61,249
83,089
70,095
64,073
97,439
4,824
1,764,500
Increase or
decrease.
+ 972
— 4,644
+ 2,619
— 7,756
+ 2,141
+ 1,480
— 2,937
+ 19,403
+ 2,756
+ 3,795
— 4,892
— 8,666
+ 7,832
+ 8,498
+ 4,812
— 4,077
— 2,428
+ 3,106
+ 9,034
* Included in Kistna District for purpose of comparison of triennial figures.
† Includes the statistics of West Gōdāvari for the year 1927-28 and 1928-29.
Compared with the previous triennium, there was an increase of 3,656 operations.
As regards individual districts, 13 registered increases which were most marked in
the Agency (+40,000), Ramnad ( + 33,000), South Arcot (+28,000), The Nilgiris
and Ganjām (each +14,000) and Madura ( + 10,200). These increases have
however been largely offset by the decreases recorded in 12 districts, the most
prominent instances in this group being Tinnevelly and Trichinopoly ( — 30,000
to —33,500), Chittoor, Cuddapah, Malabar, Tanjore and Gōdāvari, East which
returned decreases ranging from about 10,000 to 18,000.
If the outturn in 1928-29 is compared with that in the preceding year, all
but 10 districts showed improvement. There was an increase of nearly 20,000
operations in Malabar, about 8,000 to 8,500 in South Kanara and Tanjore, and
from 4,000 to 5,000 in the Nilgiris and Tinnevelly. The increase is explained
by the prevalence of smallpox in the case of Malabar and Tinnevelly districts,
vigorous control over the vaccination staff in the case of Tanjore District and to
an extensive revaccination campaign in South Kanara District.
Marked decreases were recorded in the following districts :—
Agency (9,545), Salem (8,666), Guntūr (7,756), Rāmnād (4,892), Gōdāvari,
East (4,544), Trichinopoly (4,077), Madura (2,937) and Nellore (2,756). The
reasons assigned for these decreases are:—in the case of the Agency, frequent
sickness of vaccinators and difficulty in getting qualified substitutes, in the case
of Salem, Trichinopoly, Madura and Nellore districts, systematic vaccination in
previous years as a result of which, the number of unprotected children is very
limited, epidemic of cholera and consequent dislocation of vaccination work in
Guntūr and Rāmnād districts, and the fall in revaccination in Gōdāvari, East due
to the absence of smallpox.
19. Excluding the Nilgiris in which the maximum rate of successful vaccina
tion (97.1) per mille of population was recorded, the rates varied in 1928-29 from
25.5 in Cuddapah District to 39.7 in Gōdāvari, West. Compared with the previous
year, increases were recorded in 10 districts and decreases in the rest. The
largest increase of 2.9 was returned from Ganjām District and the largest decrease
of 3.7 was reported from Salem District.
20. The number of children under one year of age successfully vaccinated
during the triennia ending 1925-26 and 1928-29 is given below:—
Triennium ending 1925-26...
1923-24
...
...
...
1924-25
...
...
...
1925-26
...
...
...
492,644
572,201
584,137