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percentage (6980), followed by Naini Tal with 68.40, Dehra Dun with 6639 and
Jalaun with 62.81. The districts showing low percentages are Kheri (25.20),
Moradabad (26.85), Meerut (28.53), Hardoi (29.80) and Saharanpur (29.92). Of
these, Moradabad, Meerut and Saharanpur show an improvement over the
preceding year.
Out of 49,683 revaccinations inspected by the assistant superintendents of
vaccination or other inspecting officers, the largest numbers were inspected in
Garhwal (16,498), Naini Tal (8,245) and Almora (6,456). Very few revaccinations
were inspected in Jaunpur, Lucknow, Mirzapur, Bareilly, Bara Banki and Muttra
and none in Meerut and Ghazipur. The attention of the District Superintendents
of Vaccination concerned will be directed to the matter.
For the purposes of comparison with the statistics of the triennium under
report the statistics of the Benares State have been excluded from the figures of
the preceding triennial period.
Provincial bovine lymph depot
at Patwa Dangar. (Naini Tal dis-
trict.)
18. Work at the dépôt at Patwa Dangar has yearly increased since its-
commencement in 1904-5. This is clearly shown
in the following table, which gives the yearly output
of lymph, the areas in which arm-to-arm vaccination
has been replaced by calf lymph vaccination and the income and expenditure :—
Year.
1904-5
...
1905-6
...
1906-7
...
1907-8
...
1908-9
...
1909-10 ...
1910-11 ...
1911-12 ...
1912-13 ...
1913-14 ...
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
In bulk.
Gram-
mes.
Grs.
Nil.
98
205
0
0
Nil.
3,806
9,147
9,392
41,460
58,427
70,296
3
0
0
12
13
10
Glycerine
paste.
Gram-
mes.
Grs.
Nil.
Nil.
1,367
668
749
414
45
44
83
79
0
12
0
0
0
0
3
7
Lanoline
paste.
Gram- mes.
79
120
19
161
4
4
6
Grs.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Nil.
Nil.
Nil.
Arm-to-arm vaccination
replaced by calf lymph
vaccination in—
Dis-
tricts.
...
...
...
...
4
8
13
22
35
37
Munici-
palities.
5
14
23
53
79
87
87
87
87
86
Notified
areas.
...
...
...
5
19
32
37
45
45
46
Income.
Rs.
106
2,057
3,527
6,118
8,572
8,527
14,211
18,780
24,019
28,867
Expendi-
ture.
Rs.
3,300
7,789
5,741
6,717
12,573
10,524
12,097
13,030
14,894
17,247
Arm-to-arm vaccination has been entirely replaced by calf lymph
vaccination in 37 districts and partly in two districts (Ghazipur and Fatehpur),
leaving nine districts in which arm-to-arm vaccination is still carried on and which
obtain only small quantities of lymph in the beginning of the season to start
work Of these Benares has agreed to adopt the new procedure from the current
year, but in the remaining districts the district boards state that they cannot afford
to purchase lymph for want of funds. In view of the undoubted advantages of the
use of calf lymph over the old arm-to-arm vaccination it is hoped that these district
boards will see their way in the near future to adopt the modern method.
As explained above, there were 86 municipalities and 46 notified areas in the
province in 1913-14 and in all of them calf lymph vaccination has been
substituted for arm-to-arm vaccination. Several native states, court of wards,
private persons and the Chief Medical Officer, East Indian Railway, purchased
lymph from the dépôt, the cost of which in 1913-14 amounted to Rs. 2,788 against
Rs. 2,018 in 1912-13 and Rs. 1,886 in 1911-12.
Lymph to the value of Rs. 646 was supplied to the Military department
in 1913-14 against Rs. 625 worth lymph supplied in 1912-13 and Rs. 668 worth in
1911-12. Up to the end of July 1913 adjustment of the cost of the lymph supplied
was made by book transfer but, with a view to simplify accounts, from the 1st of
August a contract system of annual payment of a fixed sum Rs. 700 subject
to alteration from time to time has been introduced under the orders of the
Government of India.
Six districts in the province of Bihar and Orissa were regularly supplied
with lymph in 1913-14. The total cost of this lymph amounted to Rs. 465.
The expenditure on the dépôt rose from Rs. 13,030 in 1911-12 and Rs. 14,894
in 1912-13 to Rs. 17,247 in 1913-14. This increase in expenditure is more than
counterbalanced by the increase in the income which amounted in 1913-14
to Rs. 28,867 (Rs. 26,757 from the sale of lymph and Rs. 2,110 from that of