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The increase in primary vaccinations is attributed to the high birth-rate of the
year. Good work was done in the districts of Jubbulpore, Balaghat and
Bhandara. The marked decrease in Nagpur District was chiefly due to plague
and to a rather severe epidemic of small-pox during the season, which greatly
interfered with vaccination. The decreases in Hoshangabad, Nimar, Betul and
Chhindwara are considered to be due to the low birth-rate and to heavy mortality
among children in these districts.
Children under one year of
age available for vaccination
and the number successfully
vaccinated in the Khals
8. Of 354,318 children under one year available for vaccination (that is, the
total births less deaths under one year in 1905-06) 380,933
were successfully vaccinated. The excess represents
those who were born during the first quarter of the year
1905, but who were left unprotected during 1904-05 on
account of their tender age, as well as new arrivals from outside.
Re-vaccination in Khalsa
9. Re-vaccinations show a considerable increase during the year under
report, the number having risen from 53,663 in
904-05 to 67,425 in 1905-06, an excess of 13,762 :
the number of successful cases being 42,341, and the percentage of success
61.24, or an increase of 5.02 over that of the previous year. The increase is the
result of efforts made to induce people to get themselves re-vaccinated assisted
in some districts by the prevalence of small-pox. Of the total number (67,625)
re-vaccinatied, 33,880 were adolescents and 33,745 adults.
Primary and re-vaccination
in Feudatory States.
10. The total number of primary vaccinations performed in the Feudatory
States was 59,322 against 54,334 in the previous year,
and of re-vaccinations 7,373 against 3,327, being an in-
crease of 4,988 in the former and of 4,046 in the latter. The percentage claimed
by the vaccinators was 96.81 in primary vaccinations and 84.03 in re-vaccinations
against 97.09 and 85.75 respectively, in the preceding year.
Expenditure on vaccination.
(Statement II.)
11. As compared with the previous year there was an increase of
Rs. 3,998-4-0 in the total cost of the Provincial Vaccination
Department, due mainly to promotion of the members of
the Vaccination Department of the Central Provinces in consequence of the reorga-
nization of the Department, to the entertainment of additional men and to the
increase of travelling allowance charges, and also to the extra cost incurred in
connection with the manufacture of glycerinated lymph. The average cost of each
successful case was two annas against one anna and eleven pies. In the
Feudatory States the vaccination charges amounted to Rs. 4,749-15-1 or
Rs 306-6-9 more than in 1904-05. The average cost of each successful case
was one anna and three pies against one anna and four pies in the preceding year.
Dispensary Vaccination
(Statement III.)
12. There was an incr ase of 8,489 in the total number of operations perform-
ed by Hospital Assistants, including Hospital Assistants in
the Feudatory States. Primary vaccinations increased
by 6,096 and re-vaccinations by 2,393. In the Khalsa the total number of opera-
tions performed was 24,876 or 7,689 more than in the preceding year. Of this
increase 5,564 were primary and 2,125 re-vaccinations. The percentage of suc-
cess in primary vaccination was 87.31 against 93.95 in the previous year while
in re-vaccination it was 64.18 as compared with 77.81 in 1904-05. In Drug
no Dispensary vaccination was performed this year. The total number of
operations performed in the Feudatory States was 3,624 or 800 more
than in the previous year. Of the increase 532 were primary and 268
were re-vaccination, the percentage of success being 96.21 in the former and
80.25 in the latter, which is rather high. On the whole the work done in the
States is satisfactory.
Progress of primary vaccina-
tion since 1896
(Statement IV)
13. Calls for no remarks.
Inspections.
(Statement V )
14. No Assitant Surgeon could be made available for inspection duty in
the Nagpur and Jubbulpore Districts during the year
under report. In the former the Civil Surgeon could not
go out owing to heavy work at head quarters due to plague, and in the latter
vaccination inspection was carried out by the Civil Surgeon himself when possi-
ble. Civil Surgeons and Native Superintendents were 761 and 3,094 days on tour