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General operations.
(Statement I.)
6. The total number of persons vaccinated in 1913-14 was 1,640,005 as
compared with 1,679,432 in 1912-13 and 1,484,653 in
1911-12—the annual average for the three years
under report being 1,568,030 as compared with 1,399,246 for the preceding
triennial period.
The total number of vaccinations performed in 1913-14 was l,660,820
against 1,592,438 in the preceding year and 1,494,557 in 1911-12, the annual
average for the triennial period being 1,582,605 against 1,403,390 for the previous
triennium. By subtracting the totals of the number of persons vaccinated from
the totals of the number of vaccinations performed, it is seen that ther were
20,815 secondary operations in 1913-14, 13,006 in 1912-13 and 9,904 in 1911-12—
the annual average being 14,575 against 4,144 for the preceding triennial period.
This great increase in secondary vaccinations is more apparent than real.
Formerly there was no distinction drawn between the number of vaccinations
performed and the number of persons vaccinated. In 1909-10 the Government of
India issued instructions that an individual on whom a second operation is
performed on account of failure on the first occasion, was to be shown as one
person only, but the second attempt of vaccination was to be counted as a separate
operation and to be included in the total number of vaccinations or of
revaccinations as the case may be. For the first two or three years the orders on
the subject were not clearly understood and the number of secondary operations was
understated.
The total number of primary vaccinations rose from 1,391,266 in 1911-12
and 1,468,162 in 1912-13 to 1,532,218 in 1913-14—the annual average for the three
years being 1,463,882 against 1,298,971 in the preceding triennial period.
There was an increase of 43,109 in the number of successful primary
vaccinations in 1913-14, as compared with 1912-13 and of 107,987, as compared
with the year before—the actual numbers being 1,451,230, 1,408,121 and
1,843,243. The annual average for the triennium under report was 1,400,865
against 1,245,193 for the previous corresponding period.
The number of revaccinations rose from 103,291 in 1911-12 and
124,276 in 1912-13 to 128,602 in 1913-14— the yearly average for the triennial
period being 118,723 against 104,419 for the preceding three years.
The number of successful revaccinations performed in 1913-14 was 84,681
against 82,937 in 1912-13 and 73,988 in 1911-12, the annual average for the
three years being 80,535 against 78,093 for the preceding triennium.
The average number of persons vaccinated by each vaccinator in 1913-14
was 1,801 as compared with 1,729 in 1912-13 and 1,621 in 1911-12, the annual
average for the three years being 1,717 against 1,532 for the preceding triennium.
In 1913-14 the percentage of successful cases, in which the results were
known, was 96.08 of primary vaccinations and 72.44 of revaccination against 97.19
and 7312 respectively in 1912-13 and 97.65 and 78.13 respectively in 1911-12, the
annual average for the three years being 96.97 and 74.56 against 97.25 and 80.40
respectively.
The number of persons successfully vaccinated per 1,000 of population rose
from 30.26 in 1911-12 and 31.84 in 1912-13 to 32.79 in 1913-14, the annual
average for the three years being 31.63 against 28.00 for the preceding triennium.
For the purposes of comparison with the-statistics for the triennium under
report, all returns for the Family Domains of His Highness the Maharaja of
Benares (now Benares State) have been excluded from the figures of the preceding
triennium.
There was thus an increase of work under all the heads shown above except
in the percentage of successful cases in which the results were known.
Successful primary vaccinations
in different districts.
(Statement I.)
7. Thirty-nine districts out of 48 show an increase in the number of
successful primary vaccinations in 1913-14 as compared
with 1912-13 and 43 as against 1911-12. Out of the
39 districts, Gorakhpur returned the greatest increase
(12,249), followed by Budaun (4,008), Kheri (3,075), Almora (2,104), Ghazipur (2,032),
Bahraich (1,984), Saharanpur (1,942), Mirzapur (1,909) and Hamirpur (1,906),
Among the 9 districts showing a decrease, the most conspicuous are Gonda with a
decrease of 3,063, Ballia with 2,721, Rae Bareli with 1,975, Muzaffarnagar with 1,180
and Unao with 1,003. In Gonda and Rae Bareli the decrease is stated by the
District Superintendents of Vaccination concerned to be chiefly due to slackness on
the part of some vaccinators who were punished. In Gonda prevalence of measles
was an additional cause. In Ballia the decrease is attributed chiefly to the