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The Deputy Sanitary Commissioner reported the percentage of success
to be 94.48 in primary operations and 12.85 in re-vaccinations and the
Inspectors reported it to be 97.59 in primary operations and 70.99 in re-
vaccinations. The Deputy Sanitary Commissioner's inspections during the last
two years have had to be confined to a large extent to operations in compulsory
areas owing to the pressure of other sanitary work.
6. VACCINATION IN COMPULSORY AREAS.
Bengal Act V of 1880 which provides for compulsory vaccination in
Municipal towns was extended to the Forbesganj Municipality in the Purnea.
district and to the Civil Station of Doranda in the Ranchi district in 1913 ;
and it is now in force throughout the Province except in Sambalpur in
which the Central Provinces Municipal Act is in force.
Statement VII shows that during the year 1913-14 out of 30,344
children under one year of age available for vaccination 23,578 or 77.70 per
cent. were successfully vaccinated. The number of successful vaccinations as
compared with the number of children available varies very considerably in
different areas. On the one hand, in Patna, Gaya and Darbhanga, three of
the most important towns in the Province, only about half the children
available appear to have been vaccinated and in the town of Bhagalpur the
proportion is as low as one-fifth. On the other hand, in Muzaffarpur, Bettiah
and Monghyr more children were vaccinated than were recorded as being
available. In the absence of any information to show the basis on which
the calculations have been made it is impossible to criticise these figures
to any purpose; but judging from the absence of small-pox generally in
Municipal areas, and from the inspection notes on vaccination which the
Deputy Sanitary Commissioners make in their municipal reports, I believe
that Municipal vaccination is on the whole fairly well performed, though
of course there is much room for, improvement.
In future Health Officers will be responsible for the supervision
of vaccination in the towns to which they have been appointed.
7. COST OF THE DEPARTMENT.
The cost of the Department during the. year 1913-14 was Rs. 93,373 of
which Rs. 82,241 was paid from the Provincial funds, Rs. 6,383 from Local
funds, Rs. 4,557 from Municipal funds and Rs. 192 by Native States.
8. VACCINATION IN THE ORISSA FEUDATORY STATES.
For many years past, vaccination has been quietly . developing in the
Feudatory States under the direction and encouragement of the Political
Officer, though no mention appears to have been made of the work in any
of the previous vaccination reports. The following figures which are taken
from the administration report of the Feudatory States of Orissa and Chota
Nagpur for the year 1912-13 give some idea of the progress which has been
made during the last eight years :—
1905-06 ... ... ... ...
1908-07 ... ... ... ...
1907-08 ... ... ... ...
1908-09 ... ... ... ...
1909-10 ... ... ... ...
1910-11 ... ... ... ...
1911-12 ... ... ... ...
1912-13 ... ... ... ...
Total number of
vaccinations.
117,619
165,967
187,150
226,042
269,728
810,962
841,701
387,190
Total number of
re-vaccinations.
.........
43,498
69,685
97,078
142,911
163,162
179,688
215,438