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Statement No. V.
Tahsíl.
Umballa
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...
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Rúpar
...
...
...
Naráingarh
...
...
...
Kharar
...
...
...
...
Jagadhri
...
...
...
Pipli
...
...
...
...
Total ...
Total number
vaccinated.
2,238
2,092
2,907
4,029
1,665
169
13,100
Ratio of suc-
cessful cases
per 1,000 of
population.
9.11
13.53
18.78
21.94
8.30
0.70
11.11
Of a total of 2,238 operations performed in the
Umballa tahsíl, 931, or 41 per cent., were done in
cantonments; the vaccination of the town of Umballa
was effected by Dispensary agency. The Jagádhrí
tahsíl was not completely overtaken, and having been
vaccinated the previous year towards the end of the
working season, it exhibits a much lower ratio than
usual. In the Pipli tahsíl systematic work was not
attempted. The total number of persons vaccinated
in the district was 13,100, of which in primary cases
91.62 per cent. were returned as successful. The cause
of this low percentage is due to the fact that, owing to
the great difficulty experienced in collecting the vacci-
nated children for inspection, a larger number than
usual were returned as unknown, or, in other words, unsuccessful.
LUDHIANA DISTRICT.
11. This district, entered on about the end of the first week in December, was overtaken by the
end of January. Unlike the neighbouring district, Umballa, vaccination, judging from previous returns
and reports, has been making fairly good progress here for the last six or seven years; and in no place
was seen that bitterness of feeling against the operation which in earlier years was so plainly exhibited.
In the year under report, however, owing to the prevalence of fever and small-pox in 1879, and the
mortality and enfeebled state of health arising therefrom, a considerable falling off has taken place.
The ratio of persons successfully vaccinated per 1,000 of population was 22.8 in the year under report,
as compared with 20.6, and 37.3 in the seasons 1870-71, and 1874-75, respectively. This table shows
the results obtained:—
Statement No. VI.
Tahsíl.
Ludhiána
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Samrála ... ... ...
Jagraon ... ... ...
Total ...
Total number
vaccinated.
5,562
3,877
4,518
13,957
Ratio of suc¬
ccssful cases
per 1,000 of
population.
17.90
25.31
30.61
22.85
The town of Ludhiána with its population of
36,955, furnished 980 vaccinations, being in the ratio
of 24.05 per mille of population successfully vacci-
nated.
In the municipal towns of Jagraon and
Raikot, the total number vaccinated in each was 513
and 301, the ratio successfully vaccinated per 1,000 of
population being 29.9 and 33.2, respectively. Total
number vaccinated throughout the district was 13,957,
and the proportion of success in primary cases was
94.25 per cent. The number of deaths assigned to
small-pox in 1879 was 2,444, being in the proportion
of 4.19 per 1,000 of population.
FEROZEPORE DISTRICT.
12. In many parts of this district a marked improvement in the attitude of the people towards
vaccination was observed, especially throughout the greater portion of the Moga tahsíl, and in Moodkee,
Ferozshah, and in several other villages contiguous to these. The inhabitants of the villages named have
hitherto resisted, in a very pertinacious way, all attempts to introduce vaccination amongst them; but
having suffered severely from small-pox in 1879, many were this year (although they showed some
hesitation at first) prevailed upon to submit their children to the operation. Mr. Steel, the Deputy
Commissioner, being well aware of the former unsuccessful attempts at vaccination made in this district,
and the nature of the difficulties met with, exerted his best energies to overcome the doubts of the
people with regard to it; and it is entirely through his influence, that many native gentlemen, who
had never before paid the slightest attention to the matter, were induced to take an interest in the
work, and to give all the assistance that lay in their power. The following statement shows the
distribution of the work :—
Statement No. VII.
Tahsíl.
Ferozepore
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Zira
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Mogah ... ... ...
Makatsar
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...
...
Total ...
Total number
vaccinated.
3,578
4,809
4,298
3,427
16,112
Ratio of suc-
cessful cases
per 1,000 of
population.
26.12
33.55
21.92
34.82
28.11
Mogah as usual holds the lowest place in the
ratio successfully vaccinated, being 9.5 per 1,000 of
population under the average of the other tahsíls; but
this, it must be pointed out, is, in no small measure
due to the unsuccessful results obtained in the villages
situated in the thannah of Mehráj—a detached portion
of the district inhabitated by a race of people intensely
prejudiced against the operation. The operations
in the town of Ferozepore, having been performed by
the Dispensary vaccinators, are given under the
head of Dispensary Vaccination. The total number
of persons vaccinated throughout the district was
16,112, the percentage of success in primary cases
being 96.29. The number of deaths referred to small-