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primarily vaccinated the sex percentages were 51.83 males and 48.17 females
respectively. In re-vaccination the percentages were 80.28 males and 19.72
females and in the total number of persons vaccinated 54.39 males and
45.61 females.
Caste or race.
10. During the year under review 5,658 Christians, 522,836 Hindus,
123,151 Mahomedans, 1,678 Parsis and 38,850 persons
of other caste were primarily vaccinated.
Age.
11. The age details are compiled for three periods, viz., under one year,
between one and six years and above six years. The
number under each age-period primarily vaccinated
was 541,122, 129,538 and 21,513, respectively, while the successful operations
for the same were 501,708, 118,468 and 9,638.
Inspection work of the
Deputy Sanitary Commis-
sioners.
12. The Deputy Sanitary Commissioner, Western Registration District,
visited 13 tálukas and 126 towns and villages, inspect-
ed 5,170 vaccinated persons or 3.70 per cent. of those
vaccinated and travelled 4,668 miles. The Deputy
Sanitary Commissioner, Central Registration District,
visited 16 tálukas, 99 towns and villages, inspected 4,464 vaccinated persons
or 2'89 per cent. of those vaccinated and travelled 3,311 miles. The Deputy
Sanitary Commissioner, Southern Registration District, visited 11 tálukas, 135
towns and villages, inspected 7,428 vaccinated persons or 4.50 per cent. of those
vaccinated and travelled 2,801 miles. The Deputy Sanitary Commissioner,
Gujarát Registration District, visited 10 tálukas, 104 towns and villages,
inspected 3,804 vaccinated persons or 2.84 per cent. of those vaccinated and
travelled 3,528 miles. A good deal of his time was taken up with famine
work. The Deputy Sanitary Commissioner, Sind Registration District, visited
17 tálukas, 119 towns and villages, inspected 3,569 vaccinated persons or 3.51
per cent. of those vaccinated and travelled 2,609 miles.
The diagram.
13. A diagram showing the proportion of population protected during
seven years and the death-rate from small-pox during
1911-12 is given as Appendix IV.
Cost of vaccination (State-
ment No. II).
14. The expenditure on account of
vaccination amounted to
Rs. 3,53,706-10-7 as compared with Rs. 3,56,870-6-10 in
1910-11. There was an increase under Local Fund,
Municipal and Native States establishments which was
due to the grant of bonus and grain compensation allowance. The decrease under
Provincial head was due to the difference in the pay and allowances drawn by
the Deputy Sanitary Commissioners. The successful cases excluding dispen-
saries were 648,357, the average cost for each successful case being annas 8
and pies 9 against annas 9 and pies 3 for the previous year.
Vaccine Institute, Belgaum.
15. The main buildings for the Vaccine Institute, Belgaum, are now com-
plete with the exception of the Director's bungalow.
The work of putting in the refrigerating plant and
engines has not yet been started and the fittings of the inoculated calves stable
have not been finished.
16. During the year 673,812 doses were distributed as against 635,282 in
the previous year, of which 602,573 were distributed to vaccinators of the
Presidency and 19,524 to various medical officers, the cost of each dose issued
being 7.26 pies against 5.14 last year.
The results of the vaccine issued to vaccinators in the Presidency show
case and insertion success rates 99.21 and 95.70 respectively.
The total cost of the Institute was Rs. 34,413-4-9 against Rs. 22,860-5-0
in the previous year. The increase is due to the pay and allowances of the
Director and First Assistant Superintendent; also increase of pay in the superior
staff. There is also an increase under the heading miscellaneous articles due
to the purchase of apparatus for the Laboratory.
Results of lymph.
17. The following table shows the different kinds of lymph used, the
work done with each kind, and the comparative
results obtained:—