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Kashipur in Naini Tal District with 220.14 heads the list of the best protected
municipalities. Naini Tal comes next with 180.69, followed by Ghazipur with
155.83, Almora with 69.59 and Mussoorie with 69.08. The municipalities
of Naini Tal and Ghazipur which occupied the third and second position, respec-
tively, on the list last year have interchanged their position this year. The munici-
palities showing a lower degree of protection are Mainpuri (11.82), Rae Bareli
(15.75), Fatehpur (18.77), Tanda in the Fyzabad District (19.40) and Fyzabad-
Ajodhya (19.93).
None of these has shown an improvement over last year. The decrease
in Mainpuri is attributed to the diminished birth rate and in Rae Bareli chiefly to
the carelessness of the vaccinator who has been severely punished. In the latter
it is also partly due to the prevalence of influenza. In Fatehpur it is said to be
due to the appointment of a new and inexperienced man. The epidemic of
plague is given as the cause of decrease in the Tanda Municipality while the decrease
in Fyzabad-Ajodhya is ascribed partly to influenza and partly to low birth rate.
The number of vaccinations performed in the municipalities of the United
Provinces on children under one year of age during the year under report will be
found in Appendix B, attached to this report.
Vaccination in cantonments.
15. The total number of persons vaccinated and the number of vaccination
operations performed in the cantonments of these
Provinces amounted to 17,575 and 17,602 (8,330
primary and 9,263 re-vaccinations), respectively, in 1919-20, as against 54,869
persons and 54,883 operations in 1918-19 and 26,978 persons and 27,064 operations
in 1917-18. The number of successful primary vaccinations and re-vaccinations
for the three years are 7,175 and 4,440, 15,431 and 17,702 and 12,220 and 9,184,
respectively.
The decrease is mainly due to a smaller number of operations performed
among troops during the year under report.
Vaccination in notified areas.
16. During the triennium under report Baghpat (Meerut) ceased to be a
notified area from the 1st April, 1917. The Kandhla
Municipality was converted into a notified area from
the 15th August, 1917. Colonelganj-cum-Sikrara (Gonda) and Moghal Sarai
(Benares) were constituted as notified areas from the 1st April and the 1st October,
1918, respectively. The notified area of Kanauj was raised to the status of a
municipality from the 1st September, 1919.
The number of notified areas in 1919-20 thus stood at 49.
For the purposes of comparison of the year's statistics with those of the
preceding two years, Kanauj has, however, been treated as a notified area. The
statistics of Colonelganj-cum-Sikrara and Moghal Sarai were not available for the
whole of the triennium under report. The figures in the former case were available
only for the years 1918-19 and 1919-20, while in the latter case for the year
1919-20.
The total number of (1) persons vaccinated, (2) vaccination operations, (3)
successful primary operations, and (4) successful re-vaccinations performed in the
48 notified areas (excluding Moghal Sarai) in 1919-20, was 14,705, 14,910 (13,395
primary and 1,515 re-vaccinations), 12,566 and 928 as compared with 20,314.
20,437, 18,220 and 967 in 1918-19 and 17,964, 18,335, 14,223 and 1,948 (excluding
Colonelganj-cum-Sikrara for which figures are not available) in 1917-18, respec-
tively. The number of persons successfully vaccinated per 1,000 of population
was 39.73 in 1919-20 as compared with 55.04 and 47.08 in 1918-19 and 1917-18,
respectively.
Of the well protected notified areas Mainpuri Civil Station stood first
with a rate of 177.45 per mille followed by Shahganj (Jaunpur) with 171.62.
Then came in order Ahraura (Mirzapur) with 96.14, Badshahpur (Jaunpur)
with 89.74 and Madhoganj (Hardoi) with 67.95. Among the notified areas
showing the least protection are Moghal Sarai in the Benares District (10.66),
Bhowali in the Naini Tal District (13.07), Shikohabad in the Mainpuri District
(16.16), Gorakhpur (18.46) and Ramnagar in the Naini Tal District (23.95).
The statistics of Moghal Sarai for 1918-19 are not available. Out of the
other four notified areas, the decrease in Shikohabad, as compared with last year,
is negligible. No cause has been assigned by the District Superintendent of
Vaccination for the decrease in the Gorakhpur Notified Area. In Bhowali the