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revaccinations (including 22 done in previous year)—against 241,609 vaccinations
inspected in 1913-14. The percentage of inspections to the total number
vaccinated was 13.33 for primary vaccination and 7.91 for revaccinabion in
1914-15 against 1441 and 9 71 respectively in 1913-14. The percentage of cases
found succe ssful to the total number inspected in 1914-15 was 97.29 for primary
vaccination and 57.03 for revaccination as compared with 95:93 and 59.05
respectively in the preceding year. Azamgarh heads the list of districts showing
a large number of inspections (both primary and revaccination) with 16,775
followed by Jaunpur with 13,141, Partabgarh with 11,335, Bulandshahr with
9,278, Bijnor with 9,129 and Garhwal with 9,066. No inspections were made in
the districts of Dehra Dun, Benares and Gorakhpur and very few in Agra (66),
Lucknow (67) and Almora (96). In all these districts except Almora the district
superintendents of vaccination are not required to make tours for vaccination
inspection. In Almora the district superintendent of vaccination held collateral
charge of the military station for the greater part of the year and could not leave
the headquarters.
The decrease in the inspections is chiefly due to the fact that two deputy
sanitary commissioners reverted to military duty at the commencement of the
vaccination season and one was employed on delivering lectures and demonstra-
tions at Lucknow in Hygiene and Minor Sanitary Engineering to the sanitary
classes from the 5th October 1914 to 31st January 1915. Subsequently he acted
as Professor of Hygiene at the King George's Medical College, Lucknow. In
April 1914 he was able to inspect 2,661 vaccinations. There was only one deputy
sanitary commissioner thus left for work in the department during the vaccina-
tion season ; much of his time was taken up by the Dadri fair at Ballia, by the
Magh Mela at Allahabad and the Kumbh Mela at Hardwar. In some of the
districts the inspections made by the district superintendents of vaccination also
show a falling off in numbers as compared with the preceding year, probably due
to the frequent changes in the medical charge of districts on account of war.
The assistant superintendents of vaccination and other inspecting officers
inspected 668,766 vaccinations (622,747 primary and 46,019 revaccinations) in
1914-15 against 660,471 in the preceding year. The percentage of inspections to
the total number vaccinated in 1914-15 was 40.63 for primary vaccination and
41.57 for re-vaccination against 40.40 and 38.80 respectively in 1913-14, the
percentages of cases found successful to the total number inspected being 96.36
and 94.92 respectively for primary vaccination and 52.23 and 57.70 for revaccina¬
tion. Gorakhpur, where there are two assistant superintendents of vaccination,
as usual, heads the list of districts showing a large number of inspections wish
36,106 and is followed by Garhwal with 27,778, Basti with 24,623, Almora with
19,209, Jaunpur with 17,055, Jhansi with 16,541 and Bijnor with 16,355. Among
the districts showing a small number of inspections the most conspicuous are
Dehra Dun (5,920) and Kheri (8,585), both of which show an improvement over
the preceding year. Taking the percentages of inspections of primary cases it is
seen that Jalaun returned the highest percentage (73.78) followed by Pilibhit with
68.02, Naini Tal with 67.29, Lucknow with 63.25 and Mirzapur with 60.76. Of
the districts showing low percentages, the most conspicuous are Moradabad
(22.40), Hardoi (26.01), Budaun (26.30) and Kheri (26.65). Of these Kheri shows
a slight improvement over the preceding year.
Provincial bovine lymph depôt
at Patwa Dangar (Naini Tal
district).
17. During the year under report 571 calves (409 cow and 162 buffalo) were
obtained for vaccination at the dépôt, including 27
calves left over from the previous year, two born in
the dépôt and 33 obtained on hire, against 420 calves
obtained in 1913-14. Of these, 538 calves (390 cow and 148 buffalo) were success-
fully vaccinated, 16 failed, 12 died (including one from foot and mouth disease
and two from rinderpest) before vaccination, one died and one taken ill after
vaccination (lymph not taken) ; one was under operation and two were
unvaccinated when the year closed. In 1913-14 out of 387 calves vaccinated, 371
calves proved successful and 16 failed or yielded lymph of such poor quality that
it was not used for vaccination.
The total quantity of crude lymph obtained from the 538 calves successfully
vaccinated during the year 1914-15 was 19,237.2 grammes or 35.7 grammes per calf
as against 14,716 8 grammes obtained from 371 calves in 1913-14 or 39.7 grammes
per calf. The decrease in the average yield of lymph per calf was due to the fact
that the contractor failed to supply an adequate number of buffalo calves, from
which the yield of lymph per calf is greater than from cow calves.