( 2 )
Gener results.
4. The aggregate number of operations performed by all establishments
during the year was 101,134, or 14,413 in excess
of the number for the previous year, and 11,132
in excess of the mean for the previous five years. The ratio of successful oper-
ations per 1,000 of population was 36.4, as against 30.3 in the preceding year.
In primary vaccination the percentage of successful operations was 94.9, as against
92.7, and of the total number successfully vaccinated 73.3 per cent. were under
one year of age, as compared with 69.9 in 1883-84. The number of re-vaccina-
tions was 164, or 86 less than in the previous year.
The work done by the different establishments during 1884-85 is shown
below:—
TABLE No. II.—Showing vaccination work done by different establishments in the Hyderabad
Assigned Districts during 1884-85.
Establishment.
Special Vaccination
Establishment ...
Dispensary ...
Municipality ...
Total ...
Popula-
tion.
2,394,425
2,24,144
11,449
2,630,018
Total vac-
cinated.
93,002
7,617
515
101,134
Primary.
Total
92,920
7,535
515
100,970
Success.
88,615
6,781
409
95,805
Re-vaccina-
tion.
Total.
82
82
...
164
Suc-
cess.
13
39
...
52
Percentage
of success.
Pri-
mary.
95.3
90.
79.42
94.9
Re-vac-
cination.
15.8
47.6
...
31.7
Persons
successful-
ly vacci-
nated per
1,000 of
popula-
tion.
37.0
30.4
35.7
36.4
Annual Statement No. I.
5. Statement No. I. shows the work performed by the special vaccination
establishment, omitting that done at dispensaries,
and the subjoined table compares some of the pro-
vincial totals with those of the mean of the five years ending 1882-83. For the
sake of comparison last year's work has been omitted in calculating the quin-
quennial mean, as owing to the reorganization of the establishment there was a
decrease of 24,033 in the out-turn of work last year:—
TABLE No. III.—Comparing vaccination work under certain heads performed by the special
Vaccination Establishment during 1884-85 with the averages of the five years
(1878-79 to 1882-83.)
Years.
1884-85 ... ...
Average of 1878-79 to 1882-83...
Difference ...
Total number
of
vaccinators.
42
55
—13
Total
vaccinated.
93,002
79,617
+ 13,385
Average number
by each
vaccinator.
2,214
1,466
+ 748
Percentage of
success in
primary
vaccination.
95.3
89.2
+ 6.1
An increase of 13,385 operations in the amount of work performed over the
mean of five previous years may be accepted as a fair criterion of the success of the
change of system described in last year's report, under which the strength of the
establishment was reduced 23 per cent., and the smaller number of vaccinators
kept longer at work.
The number of operations performed during the year under report has only
been exceeded twice, since the commencement of vaccination in Berar, viz., in
1877-78, and in 1882-83, both years of epidemic small-pox, when vaccine
operations were prolonged into the recess, and consequently there can be no fair
comparison, but the average number of operations performed by each vaccinator
(2,214) and the rate of success attained (95.3) has heretofore not been equalled.
These results are favourable, and would show that the efficiency of the depart-
ment has not suffered by the late reorganization of the establishment.
Average amount of work performed
by each vaccinator.
6. The average number of operations performed by each vaccinator was 2,214,
as compared with 1,887 in the previous year. The
work of individual vaccinators, however, varied con-
siderably, ranging from 3,044 and 2,928 operations