2
Primary and re-vaccinations
in the Central Provinces and
Berar including Feudatory
States.
5. Primary vaccinations in 1904-05 numbered 606,482 against 547,812 and
515,624 in 1903-04 and 1902-03, respectively. The
number of re-vaccinations performed amounted to 83,315
against 98,493 and 89,491 in the two preceding years.
In other words primary vaccinations show a large and
steady increase, while re-vaccinations show a marked decrease.
Percentage of success.
6. The percentage of success in primary operations in which the results were
known was 98.73 as compared with 98.52 in 1903-04, and
in re-vaccinations 73.78 against 74.32 in 1903-04. For
primary vaccinations the figures are satisfactory, but in regard to re-vaccination
the percentage of success claimed is still too high.
Persons succeesfully vaccin-
ated per 1,000 of population.
7. The number of persons successfully vaccinated per 1,000 of population
was 44.26 against 41.07 in 1903-04 and 38.32 in 1902-03.
If the deduced population at the end of 1904 be taken as
the basis of calculation, the protection afforded in 1904-05 amounted to a little
under 42 per 1,000 of population—the increased and increasing protection afford-
ed is satisfactory. The protection per 1,000 of population afforded in 1904-05
was higher by 4.23 in the Central Provinces Khalsa than in Berar and was
highest in the districts of Betul (67 70), Narsinghpur (61.53), Mandla (61.01)
and Seoni (58.27); the worst protected districts were Raipur (30.48) and Bala¬
ghat (32.01) ; the protection afforded in the Feudatory States was very varying,
ranging from the very high figure of 92.27 per mille in Patna to 30.13 in Bamra
and 28.69 in Makrai.
Total operations Central
Provinces and Berar, excluding
Feudatory States.
8. Excluding the Feudatory States, the total number of primary operations
performed in 1904-05 was 510,937 or 54,422 more than
in 1903-04 and 40,791 more than in 1902-03, while the
number of re-vaccinations shows a decrease of 14,294 and
12,889, as compared with 1903-04 and 1902-03, respectively.
Average number of operations
performed by Provincial Vaccin-
ators.
9. In the Central Provinces each Vaccinator performed on an average 1,925
operations being an increase of 122 over the number for
the preceding year and of 152 over 1902-03. In
Berar the average number of operations performed by
each Vaccinator was 3,445 against 3,255 in 1903-04 and 3,527 in 1902-03. Berar
Vaccinators get their lymph supplies from the depôt at Amraoti and can there-
fore devote all their time to the actual work of vaccination ; the population also
as a rule is less scattered than in the Central Provinces. Improved arrangements
for lymph supply in the Central Provinces are leading to increase in the work of
individual vaccinators. In the Central Provinces the District averages varied
from 1,555 in Jubbulpore to 3,068 in Betul and in Berar from 3,027 in Amraoti
to 2,129 in Basim.
Successful primary vaccina-
tions, Central Provinces and
Berar
10 In successful primary operations in the Central Provinces and Berar
there was an increase of 52,630 and 41,218 as compared
with 1903-04 and 1902-03, respectively. Of the success-
ful primary vaccinations 82 07 per cent. were performed
upon infants under one year of age and 15.84 per cent. upon children over 1 and
under 6 years.
Increase and decrease in
primary operations in different
districts and the cause of such
fluctuations.
11. In the Central Provinces with the exception of the two districts of
Wardha and Balaghat, there has been a general increase
in primary operations in 1904-05, as compared with the
preceding year. The increase ranges from 274 in Man-
dla to 6,998 in Nagpur. The districts which show the
most considerable increases are Nagpur (6,996), Saugor (5,031), Hoshangabad
(4,998), Chanda (4,547) and Betul (4,257) In Wardha there was a decrease of
699 and in Balaghat of 14. In Berar four districts show increases, viz.,
Ellichpur (2,757), Wun (2,106), Basim (1,707) and Amraoti (1,591), while de¬
creases occurred in Buldana (1,149) and Akola (62). The large increase in