( 2 )
were 49 assistant superintendents of vaccination in the province. The number
of vaccinators employed in 1913-14 was 921 as against 922 in 1912-13 and 927
in 1911-12, the average number for the triennial period under review being 923
as compared with 921 in the preceding triennium. The decrease in their numbers
is chiefly due, as explained above and in the previous reports, to the exclusion of
the staff employed in the Benares and Tehri States from the provincial returns
and cadre.
Expenditure on vaccination.
(Statement II.)
4. Including the charges on account of the Deputy Sanitary Commissioners
and their offices the total amount of expenditure on
vaccination in 1913-14 was Rs. 2,53,619 against
Rs. 2,24,057 in 1912-13 and Rs. 1,81,792 in 1911-12. the average annual expenditure
during the triennial period under review being Rs. 2,19,823 as against Rs. 1,71,444
in the preceding triennium. Excluding these charges, the expenditure in 1913-14
amounted to Rs. 2,01,559 as compared with Rs. 1,80,512 in 1912-13 and Rs. 1,53,200
in 1911-12, the average annual expenditure during the period under report being
Rs. 1,78,424 as compared with Rs. 1,42,129 in the previous corresponding period.
Taking the total expenditure under different heads separately it is found that in
1913-14 a sum of Rs. 1,97,805 was spent on establishment (including Deputy
Sanitary Commissioners and their offices), Rs. 47,590 on contingencies and
Rs. 8,224 on travelling allowance as compared with Rs. 1,74,548, Rs. 41,555 and
Rs. 7,954 respectively in 1912-13 and Rs. 1,40,594, Rs. 35,094 and Rs. 6,104
respectively in 1911-12. Out of the total expenditure of Rs. 2,53,619 in
1913-14, Rs. 1,65,167 was paid from the provincial funds, Rs. 52,758 from the local
funds, Rs. 29,989 by municipalities and Rs. 5,705 by native states (including court
of wards and private persons) against Rs. 1,46,345, Rs. 43,663, Rs. 28,668 and
Rs. 5,381 respectively in 1912-13 and Rs. 1,14,957, Rs. 32,533, Rs. 29,016
and Rs. 5,286 respectively in 1911-12. The increase in expenditure is chiefly
due to (1) the increase in the number of Deputy Sanitary Commissioners, (2) the
improvement in the pay of the vaccination staff and (3) the increased expenditure
on the bovine lymph dépôt as explained in paragraph 18.
Average cost of each successful
case of vaccination.
(Statement II.)
5. During 1913-14 the average cost of each successful case of vaccination
was one anna and eleven pies as compared with
one anna and nine pies in 1912-13 and one anna
and seven pies in 1912, the average cost during the
triennial period under report being one anna and nine pies against one
anna and seven pies in the preceding triennial period. The increase under
this head is accounted for by the improvement in the pay of the vaccination
staff and by larger purchases of calf lymph due to the replacement in many
districts of arm-to-arm vaccination by calf lymph vaccination. In the above
averages the cost of the bovine lymph depôt and the pay &c. of the Deputy
Sanitary Commissioners and their offices have not been taken into account for
reasons explained in the notes on vaccination for 1911-12.
The average cost of a successful case of vaccination in these provinces during
the triennium under report is compared in the table below with that in other-
provinces. It will be seen that in 1913-14 the cost was lowest in Bihar and
Orissa and that the United Provinces stand fourth on the list. As compared with
the preceding two years the cost of vaccination increased in all provinces except the
North-West Frontier Province, Assam and Bombay in which there was a slight
decrease.
Province.
Bihar and Orissa ... ...
North-West Frontier Province...
Bengal ... ... ...
United Provinces ... ...
Punjab ... ... ...
Central Provinces ... ...
Assam ... ... ...
Delhi
...
...
...
Burma ... ... ...
Bombay ... ... ...
Madras ... ... ...
1911-12.
Rs. a. p.
*
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
1
1
2
1
3
0
7
7
8
10
8
*
0
0
0
7
8
3
5
9
9
1912-13.
Rs.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
a.
1
1
1
1
2
2
3
3
7
9
3
p.
0
8
6
9
4
1
6
3
3
2
11
1913-14.
Rs.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
a.
1
1
1
1
2
2
3
3
7
9
p.
1
7
10
11
10
11
4
8
6
1
*
*Not available.