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Cost of the department.
Statement No. II.
9. The total expenditure incurred on account of the vaccination staff
of the Province and on contingencies was Rs. 11,216
compared with Rs. 11,643 in the preceding year, the
decrease of Rs. 427 being mainly due to the grant of
furlough to the Senior Divisional Inspector during whose absence on leave
acting allowance only was drawn by the officiating incumbents.
It is satisfactory to note that the amount spent on contingencies has
been less than the preceding year, the Peshawar, Hazara and Kohat Districts
contributing towards the decrease.
Cost per successful case.
10. The cost, per successful case, was Re. 0-2-2 as compared with
Re. 0-2-0 in 1905-06 and Re. 0-2-5 in 1904-05, the total
number of successful operations having been 83,501
against 92,311 in 1905-06 and 72,351 in 1904-05.
Dispensary vaccination.
Statement No. III.
11. In the Wano and Khyber Agencies vaccine operations were per-
formed by Hospital Assistants, the former showing 808
primary vaccinations and 366 re-vaccinations and the
latter 65 and 42 under the same heads, respectively.
During the year no vaccine operations were performed at dispensaries in the
Chitral Agency whereas in the preceding year no less than 2,270 primary
operations were performed.
Comparison of work done
during the past eight years.
Statement No. IV.
12. In this statement the work done during the year under report
showing the total number of persons primarily vaccinated
and the total number of those persons who were success-
fully vaccinated during the year is contrasted with the
work done for the past seven years. The reason for the
small outturn of work during the year has already been explained but it will
be seen from the figures for the past five years that satisfactory progress has
been made.
Inspections made by the
officers of the department.
Statement No. V.
13. The total number of vaccine operations was 76,604 primary
operations and 15,289 re-vaccinations as compared with
87,771 and 13,095. respectively, in the preceding year.
Civil Surgeons inspected 4,774 primary and 801 re-vacci-
nations or 6.23 and 5.24, respectively, of the work done,
the percentage of cases found successful having been 96.19 and 56.43. The
inspection work done by Divisional Inspectors and Native Supervisors as
compared with the previous year was as follows :—
BY DIVISIONAL INSPECTORS.
1905-06
1906-07
Primary operations.
32,317
23,490
Re-vaccinations.
2,073
5,353
BY NATIVE SUPERVISORS.
Primary operations.
58,645
55,444
Re-vaccinations.
9,676
11,208
The amount of inspection work done by these two classes of inspecting
officers with the results obtained shows that supervision has been fairly main-
tained and that the work done by the vaccinators has, under the circumstances,
been satisfactory ; and this is borne out by the fact that, of the 116 cases seen
by Lieut.-Colonel G. W. P. Dennys during the period he held charge of the
department, only 2, or 1.72 per cent were unsuccessful cases, all the rest
showing good marks.
Children available in
towns for vaccination.
Appendix A.
14. The number of successful operations performed on children under
one year of age in all the municipal towns of the Pro-
vince as compared with the number available for opera-
tion has been satisfactory.
Successful vaccinations
with annual ratios of
deaths from small-pox.
Appendix B.
15. The ratios of deaths from small-pox in the Peshawar District has
been considerably more during the year under report
than in either of the two preceding years, the ratios of
deaths in the other districts of the Province, with the
exception of Bannu in which there were no deaths reported
from small-pox showing slight variations from those of preceding years.