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Cost of the Department.
10. The total expenditure incurred on account of the Vaccination Staff
and on contingencies, inclusive of the cost of lymph
supplied by the Punjab Central Vaccine Institute, was
Rs. 14,743-12-9 as compared with Rs. 12,574-5-1 in the previous year
The
increase is due to (a) the cost of a certain amount of lymph obtained in the pre-
vious year not having been paid for in that year but adjusted in the following
year, (b) the entertainment of an extra vaccinator for the Mardan Sub-division,
(c) a larger number of transfers among members of the Vaccination Staff who
drew travelling allowance in consequence of the death of the Divisional
Inspector of Vaccination of the Peshawar Division and (d) the output of work
being larger than in the previous year. It will be seen that of the total expendi-
ture, Rs 12,659-2-11 were borne from Local Funds, Rs. 411-6-3 from Canton-
ment Funds and the balance by Government.
Cost per successful case.
11. The cost per successful case was two annas and five pies, the same
as in the year previous, the total number of successful
operations having been 96,178 as compared with 81,991
in 1908-09.
Statement No. III.
Dispensary Vaccination.
12. First Grade Military Hospital Assistant Rustam Ali again performed
the largest number of operations, viz., 515, at the Mastuj
Dispensary in the Chitral Sub-Agency, The Assistant
Surgeon at Tank in the Dera Ismail Khan District and the Compounder at Idak
also performed 111 and 40 operations respectively during the vaccination year.
Comparison
of work done
during the past eight years.
13. This statement shows that the results of the
work done continue to be satisfactory.
Inspections made by the officers
of the Department.
14. The total number of operations was 94,701 primary and 7,866 re-
vaccinations as compared with 81,181 and 10,187, res-
pectively, in the previous year. Civil Surgeons inspect-
ed 2,449 operations of which 96.86 primary and 73.16 re-vaccinations were found
successful against 66.15 and 48.15, respectively, in the previous year.
The inspection work done by Divisional Inspectors and Superintendents
of Vaccination, as compared with the preceding year, was as follows : —
1909-10
1908-09
By Divisional
Inspectors.
Primary.
30,127
23,194
Re-vaccinations
573
1,589
By
Superintendents.
Primary.
72,342
59.599
Re-vaccinations.
4,101
6,550
The percentage of cases found successful of the total number inspected
by Divisional Inspectors was 98.79 primary and 80.10 re-vaccinations against
98.10 and 67.84, respectively, in the previous year and that of by Superintendents
97.92 and 82.20. It is satisfactory to note that the percentage of inspections by
Divisional Inspectors of the total number vaccinated was greater during the year
than in the preceding year.
Appendix A.
Vaccination work in Municipal
Towns and Notified Areas.
15. The number of infants successfully vaccinated in most of the towns
and notified areas of the Province was larger than the
number of those available for vaccination. This is
due to a large proportion of trans-border tribes and
nomads while passing through the towns on their way
to and from independent territory submitting their children for vaccination.
While this is a satisfactory feature, there is reason to believe that in certain
towns and notified areas, where the Vaccination Act is in force, the provi-
sions are enforced with a varying degree of energy with the result that many
offenders go unpunished. If the provisions of the Act are systematically enforced
there should be no difficulty in having uniformly good results. In Peshawar City
and in Lakki, the provisions of the Act are not in force. The Civil Surgeons of
Peshawar and of Bannu advise the adoption of the Vaccination Act by the
Municipalities of Peshawar City and of Lakki. In the case of Peshawar the
Deputy Commissioner doubts the advisability of the introduction of the Act,
while in that of Lakki the matter will again be placed before the Lakki
Committee.