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5. The percentages of successful cases to total operations will be seen
from the subjoined statement :—
Provincial establishment ...
Dispensary and other establish-
ments.
Primary.
1878-79.
94.67
88.81
1879-80.
95.46
88.45
Re-vaccinations.
1878-79.
42.49
74.03
1879-80.
87.04
74.72
Of the 2,816 primary cases in which the results were noted by
Dr. Bennett during his tours of inspection, he found only 24 failures,
showing 99.15 as percentage of successful cases. This figure, however,
seems to Dr. Bennett as suspiciously high. With regard to ratio of
success amongst re-vaccinations, Dr. Bennett remarks that " much difficulty
is not unfrequently experienced in accurately distinguishing the features of
success and non-success in many re-vaccination cases, and the figures of the
vacciuators are, as a rule, far from reliable in this respect." The genuineness
of the returns of the dispensary vaccination for the districts of Sirsa, Shahpur,
Dera Ghazi Khan, and Rajanpur sub-division, is also stated to be doubtful.
These defects may be to a great extent remedied by a more extended supervi-
sion on the part of the district Civil Surgeons, as provided for in the proposed
scheme before alluded to.
6. The proportion of successful cases to the population was highest in
the districts of Simla and Kangra, the ratio per 1,000 of living being 73.22 in
the former and 37.93 in the latter.
7. The Vaccine Staff consisted of 132 vaccinators, 32 Native superintend-
ents, and one Native deputy superintendent, or a decrease of three vaccina-
tors and one Native superintendent as compared with the previous year.
In the dispensary vaccination establishment there were 124 vaccinators,
showing an increase of 21 vaccinators over the number employed in the pre-
vious year. The supervising agency consisted only of one officer, viz., Super-
intendent-General, the post of Superintendent having, as already stated,
remained vacant since April 1879.
8. With regard to the attitude of the people towards vaccination, it will
be seen from the report that a majority of the people in the Umballa district
continue to display the same antagonistic feelings towards the prophylactic
as they have hitherto done. " Considerable opposition," says Dr. Bennett,
" was met with in the Shahpur tahsil, but it cannot be said that
the district as a whole is against the measure." The low ratios ex-
hibited by the districts of Delhi, Gurgaon and Karnal, though partly due to
the excessive prevalence of fevers during the early part of the vaccinating
season, are attributed mainly to the strongly antagonistic spirit displayed by the
people, particularly by those in the Palwal tahsil and Delhi city. The conduct
of the members of the Municipal Committee of Palwal in opposing vaccina-
tion, as noticed in paragraph 18 of the report, was very discreditable. Dr.
Bennett remarks thus :—" On inspecting the town of Palwal on the 22nd
December I found that the majority of the members of the Municipal Com-
mittee were, instead of assisting, actually obstructing the work of vaccination,—
several of them (as was reported by the Native superintendent) having
offered bribes to the vaccinators in order that operations might not be carried
out in their respective sections or muhallas. On the occasion of my visit it
was with some difficulty I succeeded in getting a few of these gentlemen to
meet me for the purpose of considering the nature of the objections raised and
of devising the best measures to be adopted under the circumstances; while two