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decrease is stated to be due to influenza and in Ramnagar to influenza and
cholera.
Vaccination Act
17. The Vaccination Act is in force in all the cantonments, in 83 out of 84
municipalities and 47 out of 49 notified areas. Steps
are being taken to extend the Act to the municipality
of Kanauj (in the Farrukhabad District), recently converted as such and the
notified areas of Mau and Mubarakpur in the Azamgarh District.
General results of inspection.
(Statement V.)
18. (a) By Deputy Sanitary Commissioners and District Superintendents of
Vaccination. The total number of vaccination opera-
tions inspected by the deputy sanitary commissioners
and the district superintendents of vaccination during 1919-20 was 180,569
(173,720 primary and 6,849 re-vaccinations), excluding 4,768 primary operations of
the preceding year, as compared with 180,998 and 253,613 in 1918-19 and 1917-18,
respectively, the average for the present triennium being 205,060 as against
228,376 during the previous triennium.
The decrease in the present triennium is, as explained in last year's report due
to (1) the reversion of two deputy sanitary commissioners to military duty, (2) the
number of vaccination operations performed being less, and (3) the prevalence of
influenza in an epidemic form throughout these Provinces in 1918-19 and its after-
effects. The districts showing a large number of vaccination inspections in 1919-20
are Azamgarh (18,185), Bulandshahr (14,107), Jaunpur (10,871) and Pilibhit
(10,410).
Among the districts showing a small number of inspections, the most
conspicuous are Banda (471), Naini Tal (849), Kheri (1,135) and Allahabad
(1,199). Of these Allahabad shows an increase over the past several years. The
percentage of inspections to total number vaccinated was 13.60 in the case of primary
and 5.18 in the case of re-vaccinations in 1919-20 as against 13.50 and 7.14 in
1918-19 and 15.67 and 8.38 in 1917-18, respectively.
(b) By Assistant Superintendents of Vaccination.—These officials inspected
551,013 primary vaccinations and 37,878 re-vaccinations during the year under
report, as against 534,878 and 36,508 in the last year and 652,645 and 46,307 in
the year before last, respectively. The averages of the two sets of figures for
the three years work out to 579,512 and 40,234 as against 635,515 and 45,825
for the preceding triennium. The figures for the year under report indicate an
increase as compared with those of the last year, but a decrease as compared with
those of the year before last. As usual the district of Gorakhpur where there
are two assistant superintendents of vaccination shows the largest number of
inspections (32,903) performed during 1919-20 and is followed by Basti (21,846),
Cawnpore (19,807), Jaunpur (18,888) and Bareilly (17,883).
The districts showing the smallest number of inspections performed by
assistant superintendents of vaccination are Dehra Dun (4,365), Shahjahanpur
(4,952), Mainpuri (5,597) and Rae Bareli (6,664). Of these districts only Shahjahan-
pur shows a slight improvement over last year in this respect. The percentage of
inspections to total number vaccinated was 43.14 (primary) and 28.65 (re-vaccina-
tions) in 1919-20, as compared with 42.38 and 24.95 in 1918-19and 41.88 and 41.34
in 1917-18, respectively. The inspection work was on the whole satisfactory.
Hamirpur stands first on the list of the districts showing the highest percen-
tage of primary inspections to total number vaccinated with a rate of 92.53, closely
followed by Jalaun with 90.56. Then comes Partabgarh with 76.79, Banda with
71.77 and Badaun with 64.92. Among the districts in which a small number of
primary vaccinations was inspected the most conspicuous are Shahjahanpur
(21.21), Allahabad (23.84), Mainpuri (27.87), Rae Bareli (28.20) and Meerut
(28.83). The last of these districts showed better work as compared with the
preceding two years. The superintendents of vaccination of the districts showing
a small number of inspections will be urged to devote more attention to this part of
the work. During the year under report the percentage of cases found successful of
the total number inspected was 95.22 in the case of primary vaccinations and 55.12
in the case of re-vaccinations, as against 96.83 and 58.42 in the last year, and
96.42 and 65.38 in the year before last, respectively.
Provincial Bovine Lymph Dépôt
at Patwa Dangar (Naini Tal Dis-
trict.)
19. During the triennium under report the supervising charge of the Dépôt
was held by Lt.-Col. S. A. Harriss, I.M.S., the
then Sanitary Commissioner, United Provinces, in
addition to his own duties, from the 1st April to the