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Dispensary vaccination.
(Statement III.)
11. The number of vaccinations performed by medical subordinates at
dispensaries in 1914-15 was 348 (220 primary and 128
revaccinations) against 629 in the preceding year.
The causes of decrease under this head have been
explained in previous reports.
Vaccination in municipalities.
12. The municipalities of Kosi (Muttra) and Sardhana (Meerut) having
been converted into notified areas from 1st April 1914,
the number of municipalities was reduced from 86 to
84 and that of notified areas increased from 46 to 48 during the year under report.
For the purposes of comparison the statistics of these two towns for the preceding
year have therefore been excluded from those for the municipal areas and included
in those for the notified areas.
In 1914-15 the total number (a) of persons vaccinated in the municipalities
of these provinces was 126,585, (b) of vaccinations performed 127,952 including
1,367 seoondary vaccinations, (c) of successful primary vaccinations 105,253,
(d) of successful revaccinations 7,739 and (e) of persons successfully vaccinated
per 1,000 of population 38.47 against (a) 122,661, (b) 125,136 including 2,475
secondary vaccinations, (c) 100,314, (d) 8,132 and (e) 36.98 respectively in the
preceding year.
The municipal vaccination work during the year 1914-15 thus shows an
improvement over the preceding year under all heads except revaccinations.
Naini Tal heads the list of best protected municipalities with 148 83 persons
successfully vaccinated per 1,000 of population and is followed by Jaunpur with
103.34, Almora with 79.02, Gonda with 67.40, Lakhimpur (Kheri) with 67.01 and
Mau (Jhansi) with 61.65. Of the least protected municipalities the most conspiouous
are Rae Bareli with 17.43, Farrukhabad cum Fatehgarh with 19.74, Nawabganj
(Bara Banki) with 21.31, Fyzabad-Ajodhya with 25.44 and Brindaban (Muttra)
with 26.30. All these municipalities with the exception of Fyzabad-Ajodhya
show an improvement over the preceding year. In Fyzabad-Ajodhya the decrease
is stated to be due to the prevalence of plague in the latter part of the year.
The number of successful vaccinations performed on children under one
year of age in the municipalities of these provinces in 1914-15 was 85,085, vide
Appendix B, against 81,670 in 1913-14.
Vaccination in cantonments.
13. The total number (a) of persons vaccinated in the cantonments of
these provinces during 1914-15 was 12,930, (b) of
vaccinations
performed 13,094, including 164
secondary vaccinations, (c) of successful primary vaccinations 7,874, (d) of
successful revaccinations 2,697 and (e) of persons successfully vaccinated per
1,000 of population 55.24, against (a) 12,841, (b) 13,102, including 261 secondary
revaccinations, (c) 7,041, (d) 3,267 and (e) 53.87 respectively in the preceding
year. As in the case of municipalities, there was an increase under all the above
heads except revaccinations in the cantonment areas in 1914-15.
Vaccination in notified areas.
14. During the year under review 15,875 persons were vaccinated and
16,113 vaccinations performed in the 48 notified
areas of these provinces against 16,014 and 16,422
respectively in 1913-14, the difference of 238 and
408 representing secondary operations. The number of successful primary
vaccinations rose from 14,111 in 1913-14 to 14,711 in 1914-15 and the number
of persons successfully vaccinated per 1,000 of population from 42.50 to 43.46.
Mainpuri civil station again stands first among the best protected notified areas
with 244.16 persons successfully vaccinated per 1,000 of population, followed by
Shahganj and Badshahpur (Jaunpur) with 148.99 and 91.63 respectively, Ahraura
(Mirzapur) with 83.11, Sheopur (Benares) with 79.21 and Fatehpur-Sikri (Agra)
with 76.48. Among the worst protected notified areas the most conspicuous are
Chunar Settlement (Mirzapur) with 2.90 persons successfully vaccinated per 1,000
of population, Rajpur (Dehra Dun) with 15.41, Shahdara (Meerut) with 18.99
and Kaimganj (Farrukhabad) with 22 99. All these areas show a falling off as
compared with the preceding year .
Vaccination Act.
15. The Vaccination Act is in force in all municipalities and cantonments
and in 40 notified areas.
General results of inspection.
(Statement V.)
16. During 1914-15 the deputy sanitary commissioners and the district
superintendents of vaccination inspected 219,068
vaccinations (including 6,014 vaccinations performed
in the preceding year and not shown in Statement
V)—210,288 primary (including 5,992 carried out in previous year) and 8,780