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Appendix to Statement No. I.—Vaccination in can¬
tonments.
11. In the Cantonments of Peshawar and Nowshera, where vaccination
work is done under the control of the
Cantonment authorities, 3,120 vacci-
nations were performed as compared
with 3,789 and 3,510 in 1915-16 and 1914-15 respectively. In the other
Cantonment stations vaccination work, which is done by the District Vacci-
nation staff, is confined to the non-military native population. The total
number of vaccinations performed in them were 1,156 against 889 in preceding
year and 1,783 in 1914-15.
Statement No. II.—Cost of the Department.
12. The total cost of the Department has risen within the past three
years from Rs. 15,171 to Rs. 15,450
The reason for the increase of expendi-
ture is mainly due to a larger number of vaccine tubes having been obtained
and to miscellaneous expenditure falling under the head of Contingencies.
Cost per successful case.
13. The cost per successful case, which has continued to keep low for
some years, was one anna and eight
pies, the total number of successful
operations having been 148,030 out of 158,222 actually performed.
Statement No. III.—Dispensary vaccination.
14. This year no vaccination was
done by the Medical staff.
Statement No. IV—Work done during past 17 years.
15. This statement, which presents the number of persons primarily
vaccinated and the number successfully
vaccinated during each of the years
since the formation of the Province, calls for no special comment.
Statement No. V.— Inspections made by the officers
of the Department.
16. Civil Surgeons inspected 2,949 primary and 638 secondary opera-
tions, and found 96.64 per cent. of the
former and 71.16 of the latter success-
ful. Of the number of primary opera-
tions inspected, the Civil Surgeon, Hazara, did more than half, viz. 1,620.
During the past year fewer inspections were done by Civil Surgeons than in the
previous two years.
The inspection work done by Divisional Inspectors and Superintendents
of Vaccination as compared with the two previous years was as follows :—
By Divisional
Inspectors.
1914-15
...
1915-16
...
1916-17 ...
Primary
operations.
29,407
41,640
35,179
Re-vaccina¬
tions.
1,803
2,562
2,996
By Superintendents
of
Vaccinations.
Primary
operations.
109,088
92,769
101,398
Re-vaccina¬
tions.
8,627
13,336
16,416
The percentage of cases found successful by Divisional Inspectors of the
total number inspected was primary 97.41 and re-vaccinations 79.44 as compared
with 97.30 and 77.49 respectively in the previous year and 98.47 and 89.85
respectively in 1914-15. That by Superintendents was 98.44 and 90.78 respec-
tively in 1915-16 and 98.25 and 88.69 in 1914-15.
Appendix A.—Vaccination in Municipal towns.
17. The number of successful operations performed on children under
the age of one year as compared with the
number available in Municipal towns
and Notified Areas during the triennial period, except in a few cases, has been
fairly satisfactory. In the Nawanshahr Notified Area 186 births in 1916-17
were recorded, but of these not a single child had been vaccinated up to the
31st March 1917. In explanation the Civil Surgeon, Hazara, states that on
account of fever and measles children were not presented for vaccination. In
the Lakki Notified Area 95 children out of 268 borne in the same period were
successfully vaccinated. The Civil Surgeon, Bannu, who has repeatedly
recommended the extension of the provisions of the Vaccination Act to that
area, makes the following remarks in his latest report :--
"The diminution of vaccination operations in the Lakki town is apparently due to the
fact that the Vaccination Act is not in force. I would therefore suggest that necessary steps
be taken by the local authorities for the introduction of the Act in this town too."