( 6 )
on Rs. 40 per month for driving engines and his deputation to Calcutta for
training, (d) annual increments in the pay of the staff, and (e) purchase of a
complete new outfit of langots and jhools for calves.
The subjoined table shows the output of lymph, the number of areas in which
arm-to-arm vaccination has been replaced by calf lymph vaccination and the
income and expenditure of the dépôt for a series of years:—
Year.
1904-5 ...
1905-6 ...
1906-7 ...
1907-8 ...
1908-9 ...
1909-10 ...
1910-11 ...
1911-12...
1912-13...
1913-14...
1914-15 ...
1915-16...
Quantity of lymph issued.
Glycerinated lymph.
Tubes.
21,049
74,800
113,945
198,224
243,722
249,974
358,939
193,356
180,445
193,932
296,423
150,347
In bulk.
Gram-
mes.
Grs.
Nil.
98
205
0
0
Nil.
3,806
9,147
9,392
41,460
58,427
70,296
94,547
83,110
3
0
0
12
13
10
13
7
Glycerine
paste.
Gram-
mes. Grs.
Nil.
Nil.
1,367
668
749
414
45
44
83
79
328
66
0
12
0
0
0
0
3
7
0
0
Lanoline
paste.
Gram-
met.
79
120
19
161
4
4
6
Grs.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Nil.
Nil.
Nil.
8 7
Nil.
Arm-to-arm vaccination
replaced by calf-lymph.
vaccination in—
Dis-
tricts.
...
...
...
...
4
8
13
22
35
37
41
47
Munici-
palities.
5
14
23
53
79
87
87
87
87
86
84
84
Notified
areas.
...
...
...
5
19
32
37
45
45
46
48
47
Income.
Rs.
106
2,057
3,527
6,118
8,572
8,527
14,211
18,780
24,019
28,867
39,174
31,056
Expendi-
ture.
Rs.
3,300
7,789
5,741
6,717
12,573
10,524
12,097
13,030
14,894
17,247
20,703
21,460
During the year under report 1,501,653 primary vaccinations and 75,671
re-vaccinations were performed with calf lymph against 1,405,330 and 64,640
respectively in 1914-15. Returns of results have been received for 819,429
primary operations and 52,862 re-vaccinations, excluding unknown cases, and these
show a percentage success of 91.8 and 63.8 respectively during the period from
April to September, 1915 (hot weather) and 969 and 71.1 respectively during the
period from October 1915 to Maroh 1916 (cold weather), against 90.5, 591, 97.6
and 73 . 9 respectively in 1914-15 as shown below :—
Period.
April to September 1915 ...
October 1915 to March 1916
Total ...
Primary.
Success-
ful.
26,356
766,345
792,701
Unsuc-
cessful.
2,363
24,365
26,728
Percentage of
success.
1915-16.
91.8
96.9
96.7
1914-15.
90.5
97.6
96.7
Re-vaccination.
Success-
ful.
2,233
35,095
37,328
Unsuc-
cessful.
1,268
14,266
15,534
Percentage of
success.
1915-16.
63.8
71.1
70.6
1914-15.
59.1
73.9
70.2
The strain of lymph was satisfactory and was occasionally fortified by
passage through rabbits.
District annual vaccination
returns.
18. The district returns are required to be submitted to this office through
the deputy sanitary commissioners on 1st May but
from several districts they are received very late and
even then are not complete and correct. This points
to carelessness in preparation and necessitates recalculations and frequent
references which not only unnecessarily gives increased work to all the offices
concerned but results in delay in the submission of the provincial report. This
year the last return was received on 22nd May 1916 and several returns had to be
returned for correction and completion. All this could be avoided if the district
superintendents of vaccination would give the matter their personal attention.
NAINI TAL :
The 23rd June, 1916.
S. A. HARRISS, M.B., G.M., D.P.H., D.T.M. & H. (CAMB.),
LIEUT-COLONEL, I.M.S.,
Sany. Commr. & Supdt. Genl. of Vaccination,
United Provinces.