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with 14.69. Then in order come Gorakhpur (18.28), Kaimganj and Kanauj in the
Farrukhabad district (24.33 and 24.80 respectively) and Shikohabad in the
Mainpnri district (25.48). All these areas except Chunar Settlement, Bagpat and
Kanauj show an improvement over the preceding year.
Vaccination Act.
16. The Vaccination Act is in force in all municipalities and cantonments and
in 40 notified areas but the provisions are enforced
with a varying degree of energy in different localities
amongst which Agra is conspicuous for its slackness.
General results of inspection.
(Statement V.)
17. The total number of vaccinations inspected by the Deputy Sanitary
Commissioners and the District Superintendents of
Vaccination in 1913-14 was 241,609 (including 11,219
vaccinations performed in previous year and not shown in Statement V)—229,027
of which were primary (including 11,074 done in previous year) and 12,582
revaccinations (including 145 done in previous year) as compared with 244,881
vaccinations inspected in 1912-13 and 225,317 in 1911-12—the average for the three
years being 237,269 against 189,681 in the preceding triennium. The percentage
of inspections to the total number vaccinated was 14.41 for primary operations
and 9.71 for revaccinations in 1913-14 against 15.63 and 13.98 respectively in
1912-13 and 15.53 and 10.38 in 1911-12 —the averages for the triennium being
15.19 and 11.36 against 13.55 and 13.58 in the preceding three years.
The percentage of cases found successful to the total number inspected in
1913-14 was 95.93 for primary vaccination and 59.05 for revaccination against
9707 and 61.26 respectively in 1912-13 and 97.23 and 59.61 in the preceding year,
the average percentages for the three years being 96.74 and 59'97 respectively as
compared with 96.81 and 70.23 for the preceding triennium. Of the districts
showing a large number of inspections of primary vaccinations in 1913-14,
Azamgarh stands first with 14,327 followed by Jaunpur with 12,030, Partabgarh
with 9,948, Shahjahanpur with 9,526 (including 262 vaccinations done in previous
year), Moradabad with 8,970 (including 638 vaccinations performed in 1912-13),
Basti with 8,874 and Ghazipur with 8,654. As regards revaccination, the largest
numbers were inspected in Garhwal (7,226), Naini Tal (784), Jhansi (665), Jalaun
(548) and Basti (443). No inspections were made in the districts of Dehra Dun,
Cawnpore and Gorakhpur. In the Lucknow district only 434 primary operations
(including 166 performed in 1912-13) were inspected, in Benares 909 and in Agra
411 (which were all performed in 1912-13). In all these districts, District Superin-
tendents of Vaccination are not required to tour for vaccination inspection. The
decrease in the number of inspections is due to the facts (1) that one Deputy
Sanitary Commissioner went home on leave early in November 1913, (2) that two
Deputy Sanitary Commissioners were employed in delivering lectures and
demonstrations in Hygiene to the candidates for the appointments of health officers
and sanitary inspectors—one from the commencement of October 1913 to the end
of January and the second from the beginning of January to the end of March—
and (3) that the number of inspections made by Civil Surgeons in some districts
was less than 1912-13.
During the year under report the assistant superintendents of vaccination
and other inspecting officers inspected 660,471 vaccination operations—610,788
primary and 49,683 revaccination—against 623,381 in 1912-13 and 556,920 in
1911-12—the average for the three years being 613,591 against 487,347 in the
preceding triennium. The percentage of inspections to the total number
vaccinated in 1913-14 was 40.40 for primary vaccination and 38.80 for
revaccination against 39.09 and 43.86 respectively in 1912-13 and 37.20 and
41.74 in the preceding year—the average percentages for the three years
being 38.90 and 41.47 against 34.64 and 38.10 respectively in the preceding
triennium. The percentage of cases found successful to the total number
inspected in 1913-14 was. 94.92 for primary vaccination and 57.70 for
revaccination against 96.51 and 66.51 respectively in 1912-13 and 97.00 and 66.80
in 1911-12—the average percentages for the three years being 96.14 and 60.34
respectively against 96.33 and 77.36 in the preceding triennium. Of the
districts showing a large number of inspections of primary cases, Gorakhpur,
where there are two assistant superintendents of vaccination, stands, as usual, first
with 38,739, followed by Basti with 22,880, Jaunpur with 16,964, Jhansi with 15,317,
Rae Bareli with 15,175, Muzaffarnagar with 14,893, Gonda with 14,831, Ballia with
14,631, Mirzapur with 14,509, Bijnor with 14,322 and Meerut with 14,127. Of the
districts showing small number of inspections of primary vaccination the most
conspicuous are Dehra Dun (3,914) and Naini Tal (7,208). Both of these
districts show an improvement over the preceding year. Taking the percentages
of inspections of primary cases it is found that Pilibhit returned the highest