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STATEMENT No. II.
18. The total cost of the Provincial Vaccine Department for 1894-95
amounted to Rs. 49,046-8-10 against Rs. 49,700-8-10 in 1893-94, or Rs. 654 less
than that of the previous year. The decrease is mainly observed under the head
" Establishment" and is due to the retirement from service of Native Superin-
tendents and vaccinators of the higher grades and their places having been filled
up in the lower grades. Besides this, in Wardha the Native Superintendent of
Vaccination died in March 1894, and his place remained vacant till the working
season commenced. Thus there is a decrease under the heading " Establish-
ment."
19. The average cost of each successful operation for the year was
Re. 0-2-1½ against Re. 0-2-3 1/5 in 1893-94.
20. The total cost of the vaccine establishment of the Feudatory States
for 1894-95 amounted to Rs. 4,494-10-11 as compared with Rs. 4,371-13-8 for
the previous year, or an increase of Rs. 122-13-3. This is mainly due to promo-
tion of some of the vaccinators.
21. The average cost of each successful case was Re. 0-1-0 2/3 against
Re. 0-1-21/5 in the previous year.
STATEMENT No. III.
22. There has not been much variation in the amount of vaccination
work performed by Hospital Assistants attached to dispensaries, both in the
Khalsa and in the Native States, in 1894-95. The operations performed by them
numbered 18,673, or 230 less than that of the year previous ; and of these 16,195
were primary and 2,478 re-vaccinations. The success obtained in primary vacci-
nation is represented by 14,991 cases, of which 9,727 were infants under one
year of age, or a percentage of 64.89.
STATEMENT No. IV.
23. From the figures furnished in this statement it will be seen that, as
regards primary vaccination, the total number of operations as well as of success-
ful cases has been higher in 1894-95 than in any of the previous years since 1867.
Inspection.
24. The Civil Surgeons and Native Superintendents of Vaccination as
usual inspected most of the vaccine operations in their respective districts. The
result of their inspection is given in Statement No. V appended to this report.
Surgeon-Colonel G. C. Ross inspected vaccine operations when on tour in
the districts of Saugor, Damoh, Jubbulpore, Mandla, Balaghat, Bhandara and
Nagpur, and the result of his inspection has already been submitted for the
Information of the Chief Commissioner in this office letter No. 1098—596, dated
the 20th March 1895.
Sources of Lymph.
25. Eighteen tubes of calf vaccine lymph were procured in England from
Messrs. Burgoyne, Burbidges and Co. and distributed to Civil Surgeons, fourteen
of whom reported favourably on the lymph, one did not try it, while those of Hosh-
angabad, Wardha and Chhindwara reported that it failed. Lanoline paste was
prepared at Pachmarhi in the end of October and the beginning of November
by the Native Superintendent of Hoshangabad, regarding which Dr. Ross
remarks:—
" I was indebted entirely to the help given me by Mr. Gray, Deputy Commissioner, Hosh-
angabad, who aided me in funds and in getting calves. The paste was sent to every district to
commence the work, and proved good. The Local Government was saved the expenses of the
two previous years in this direction, and I would recommend the same course being followed
every year—paste distributed from a centre—and the Civil Surgeon, Hoshangabad, should be
called upon to perform this duty."
A brief account of these experiments is appended to this report.
Throughout the Provinces animal vaccination has made steady progress, and
in some districts has almost entirely superseded the older method.
26. With reference to paragraph 9 of the memorandum of the Army Sani-
tary Commission, on the report of the Sanitary Commissioner, Central Provinces,
for 1890, the following table is appended:—