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Age.
9. 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 523,893, 121,197 and
20,512 respectively, while the successful operations for
each age period were 489,004, 111,400 and 9,423. The ratio of infantile
protection afforded during the year was 73.43 per cent.
Inspection work of the
Deputy Sanitary Commis-
sioners.
10. The Deputy Sanitary Commissioner, Western Registration District,
visited 10 tálukas and 111 towns and villages, inspect-
ed 5,952 vaccinated persons or 4.37 per cent. of those
vaccinated and travelled 2,377 miles. The Deputy
Sanitary Commissioner, Central Registration District,
visited 16 tálukas, 182 towns and villages, inspected 6,652 vaccinated persons
or 4.12 per cent. of those vaccinated and travelled 2,870 miles. The Deputy
Sanitary Commissioner, Southern Registration District, visited 3 tálukas, 8 towns
and villages, inspected 921 vaccinated persons or .52 per cent. of those vaccinated
and travelled 3,369½ miles. This officer was in charge of the Vaccine Depôt at
Belgaum and was consequently unable to travel much on inspection duty. He
was deputed to Aden and Amritsar on special duty. The Deputy Sanitary Com-
missioner, Gujarát Registration District, visited 17 tálukas, 162 towns and villages,
inspected 10,325 vaccinated persons or 8.16 per cent. of those vaccinated, and
travelled 3,398 miles. The Deputy Sanitary Commissioner, Sind Registration
District, visited 20 tálukas, 112 towns and villages, inspected 3,126 vaccinated
persons or 3.55 per cent. of those vaccinated and travelled 3,035 miles.
The Diagram.
11. A Diagram showing the proportion of population protected during
seven years and the death-rate from small-pox during
1909-1910. is given in Appendix IV.
Expenditure.
12. The total expenditure on account of vaccina-
tion as compared with the preceding year is given in
the following table :—
Establishment.
Provincial
... ...
Municipal and Canton-
ment
...
...
Local Fund
... ...
Native States ...
...
Total ...
1908-09.
Rs.
1,14,344
50,817
1,33,947
28,260
3,27,369
a.
5
7
12
3
12
p.
1
10
5
6
10
1909-10.
Rs.
1,22,544
52,737
1,44,519
28,173
3,47,974
a.
10
2
9
0
6
p.
10
0
6
5
9
Increase.
Rs.
8,200
1,919
10,571
a.
5
10
13
p.
9
2
1
......
20,604 9 11
Decrease.
Rs. a. p.
...
...
...
87 3 1
...
The increase under Provincial Establishment is due to the difference in pay
drawn by the Deputy Sanitary Commissioners, while under Local Fund and
Municipal Establishments the entertainment of additional staff, the grant of pony
allowance to Vaccinators in some Collectorates and the payment of grain compen-
sation, account for the difference. Excluding Vaccinations done in dispensaries-
the total of successful cases amounted to 629,092 and the average cost for each
successful case was annas 8 and pies 10 against annas 8 and pies 5 in the previous-
year.
Belgaum Vaccine Depôt.
13. The hope expressed in last year's report was not fulfilled. The com-
pletion of the new premises has been greatly delayed
and some months must yet elapse before they are
ready for occupation.
However under somewhat trying conditions Major
Hutchinson, the Deputy Sanitary Commissioner in charge of the Depôt, has been
able to show a good year's work. The total outturn was 649,972 doses of
vaccine as compared with 606,005 in the previous year, and of this amount
613,892 doses were sent to Vaccinators of the Presidency, the net result being
525,441 operations. There was thus a loss of 14.4 per cent. of the vaccine dis-
tributed, and this loss varies from 9 to 23 per cent. in different districts. The
waste of lymph is high but the causes are so many and varied that there is little
hope of materially reducing it.