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that the efforts of the vaccination staff have been more strenuous, because during
the year under report there was less small-pox than in the previous year.
Appendix to Statement No. I.—Vaccination in Politi-
cal Agencies.
8. The total number of vaccine operations performed in the Agencies
was 12,130, an increase of nearly 2,000.
This increase results from 2,078 opera-
tions having been done in the Amb State
compared with 401 in the previous year. For the first time the Khyber Agency
records vaccination work, 407 persons having been operated on. The number
of primary operations was 11,526. and of the results known 98.43 were success-
ful. Re-vaccination operations have been slightly fewer and the percentage
of successes not so great.
Vaccination in the Agencies is gradually becoming more popular and
the old system of inoculation is dying out. In Swat at the very end of the
year an inoculator, a Mullah, consented to learn how to vaccinate. He has
taken to it enthusiastically, and has been entertained as a district vaccinator.
The work done by him will be recorded in next year's report.
Appendix to Statement No. I.— Vaccination in can-
tonments.
9. In four cantonments—Abbottabad, Kohat, Bannu, and Mardan—
vaccination is carried on by the Dis-
trict staff, and has been performed
satisfactorily. In the Peshawar Can-
tonment 2,552 persons were vaccinated, and of these 1,417 were re-vaccinations.
In the Nowshera Cantonment, where the work is done by a Military
Sub-Assistant Surgeon, who has other duties to attend to, only 524 persons
were operated on. This included 298 re-vaccinations. Both these figures
should be higher. No figures are supplied from the Dera Ismail Khan Can-
tonment, in which vaccination work is done by Regimental Medical Officers
and their staff.
Statement No. II.—Cost of the Department.
10. The total expenditure incurred on account of the vaccination staff
and for lymph from the Punjab Central
Vaccine Institute was for the past year
Rs. 15,492-9-9 compared with Rs. 14,265-9-9 in 1910-11. This increase is
due (1) to a payment for lymph used in the previous year having been made
during the year under report; 2) to an additional Vaccinator having been
entertained for 6 months and to the appointment of two others being extended
from 5 to 6 months, and thirdly and specially to the increased number of
vaccinations performed. Of the total expenditure District Funds paid
Rs. 10,320 and Municipal Funds Rs. 3,311; Imperial Rs. 1,468 and Can-
tonment Funds Rs. 392.
Cost per successful case.
11. The cost, per successful case, is low—2 annas per case. Only once
before has the cost per case been so
low. The total successful primary and
re-vaccination cases were 123,553 as compared with 100,654 in 1910-11.
Statement No III.—Dispensary vaccination.
12. At the Mastuj Dispensary in the Chitral Sub-Agency the largest
number of vaccinations in dispensaries
was done. This has been the case for
the past few years, and the number recorded now (1,056) is the highest yet
reached. At Mardan and at one of the Branch Dispensaries in Peshawar, a
small number of vaccinations is recorded.
Statement No. IV.—Comparison of work done during
the past 13 years.
13. Statement No. IV shows that vaccination yearly becomes more
popular. The total of successful pri-
mary vaccinations, i.e. 107,123, is the
highest yet reached.
Statement No. V.—Inspection made by the officers
of the Department.
14. The total number of operations was primary 111,729 and re-
vaccinations 21,223 as compared with
99,588 and 7,845 in the year 1910-11.
Civil Surgeons inspected 10,216 opera-
tions, of which the successful percentage was 96.82 primary and 73.80