Notes on Vaccination in the United Provinces for the year
1915-16.
General.
Sixty-five revenue estates, inclusive of Shahdara notified area, comprising of
an area of 45 square miles with a population of 14,552
souls, were transferred from the Meerut district to
the Delhi province on 1st April, 1915, vide Government of India notification
No. 984C dated the 22nd February 1915. The area and population of the Meerut
district were thus reduced from 2,344 square miles and 1,519,364 to 2,299 square
miles and 1,504,812 respectively and those of the province from 106,402 square
miles and 46,835,108 to 106,357 square miles and 46,820,556 respectively.
Strength of vaccination staff.
(Statement II.)
2. The number of assistant superintendents of vaccination remained
unaltered during the year but the number of
vaccinatorse mployed was reduced from 925 in 1914-15
to 887 in the year under report. This latter number
includes apprentices appointed in several districts according to the scale sanctioned
by Government.
Expenditure on vaccination.
(Statement II.)
3. In 1915-16 the expenditure on vaccination including the charges on
account of deputy sanitary commissioners and their
offices amounted to Rs. 2,41,602 and excluding these
charges to Rs. 2,14,659 as compared with Rs. 2,47,803
and 2,07,349 respectively in the preceding year. The decrease in expenditure on
account of deputy sanitary commissioners was due to the fact that the posts of the
two I. M. S. deputy sanitary commissioners, who reverted to military duty in
1914, remained vacant throughout the year. The increased expenditure under
other heads is accounted for by (a) the application during 1915-16 of the standard
fixed for vaccination charges, at an increased cost estimated at Rs. 33,000
referred to in paragraph 3 of the notes for 1914-15, (b) the grant of horse
allowance to assistant superintendents of vaccination, (c) the purchase of bovine
lymph by a larger number of districts, (d) the supply of new badges to vaccinators,
and (e) enhanced expenditure on the bovine lymph dépôt, Patwa Dangar, as
explained in paragraph 17.
Average cost of each successful
case of vaccination.
(Statement II.)
4. In 1915-16 the average cost of each successful case of vaccination in
these provinces was two annas against one anna and
eleven pies last year. The increase under this head
is accounted for by the increased expenditure on
vaccination as explained above and by the smaller number of vaccinations
performed in 1915-16 than in 1914-15.
Compared with other provinces, the United Provinces stand third in the low
cost as shown below. The cost of successful vaccination per head has increased
in Bihar and Orissa by 3 pies, in the North-West Frontier Province by two
pies, and in the United Provinces by one pie, in 1915-16 as compared with last
year:—
Province.
Bihar and Orissa ...
North-West Frontier Province
United Provinces ...
Bengal ... ... ...
Punjab ... ... ...
Assam ... ... ...
Central Provinces ... ...
Madras ... ... ...
Delhi ... ... ...
Bombay ... ... ...
Burma ... ... ...
Cost of successful
case of vaccination in
1915-16.
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A.
1
1
2
2
3
3
3
3
3
8
9
p
5
10
0
1
1
1
3
9
11
7
1