APPENDIX C.
Annual report of the Punjab Vaccine Institute for the year 1926-27,
by Khan Bahadur Dr. K.A. Rahman, Assistant Director of Public
Health (Technical) Vaccination-
Buildings.
DURING the year under report the following works were completed :—
At Lahore.—A block of buildings consisting of 4 stables, 4 calfmen's quarters and 2
godowns, the sanction for the construction of which was accorded during 1925-26.
These stables now meet a very long-felt want and enable us to keep the calves under
observation before operation and at a considerable distance from those to be vaccinated
and from those already vaccinated.
At Murree.—A double-storeyed building. It was originally intended to serve as a
calf operation room, sterilizing room and for storing lymph, and is now used for laboratory
work and the preparation and issue of vaccine lymph, the old laboratory and lymph
rooms being used as family quarters. This change had to be made as the new building
is much better suited for lymph production than the old house.
The works enumerated below were taken in hand about the close of the year at
Murree, but have not yet been completed :—
1. Construction of new' roads, and repairs to the pathways in the Punjab
Vaccine Institute.
2. Construction of six servants quarters and one stable with verandahs.
Snow-pit.
In spite of a thatched roof, snow stili melts rapidly in the snow pit and it is feared that
the snow may not last till the end of the Murree season. In order to prevent melting, the
existing pit is to be insulated next October for which funds are being made available.
Purchase of calves.
Owing to the loss of several calves from rinderpest, the system of purchasing calves
in one large batch at Murree was abolished and now only a few are obtained at a time accord-
ing to requirements. In Lahore, during the last winter, calves were not hired from the con-
tractor but were bought from places where they could be obtained easily. The reason for
this was that last year the contractor failed to supply calves regularly, which resulted in the
stock of vaccine lymph being reduced to an undesirable minimum.
Cost and mainte-
nance of calves.
The average cost per calf was Rs. 6-9-0, and the feeding charges work out to annas 4
per head per day.
Preparation of
vaccine lymph.
Despatch of vaccine
lymph.
Output of vaccine.
As usual the Forster-Java method was followed.
No change in the method was made during the year under report.
The following table shows the total number of vaccinifers used, the number successful-
ly vaccinated during the year, and the average yield per head, separately :—
Buffalo calves ..
Cow calves ..
Rabbits .. .. ..
Total number
used.
147
12
14
Number suc-
cessful.
127
12
11
Average yield
per head.
91.0 grm.
27.7 „
0.43 „
3,120 tubes of vaccine lymph remained from last year.
53,424 tubes were prepared during the year.
51,882 tubes, equivalent to 3,372,330 doses, were issued during the year against a total
of 56,066 tubes issued during the year 1925-26.
Details of the distribution of these 51,882 tubes are given in statement No. I.
Net profit to Gov-
ernment.
The net profit to Government from the sale of vaccine lymph during the year under
report was Rs. 15,091-13-4.
Inspections
for
test of lymph.
During the year the Assistant Director and the Superintendent inspected a large
number of results for the " clinical test " performed by the Superintendent of Vaccination
in Lahore Municipality. The case and insertion success was 100 per cent.
We also inspected the results of a number of re-vaccinations performed on prisoners in
the Borstal and Female Jails by the M.B.B.S. Medical students, Sanitary Inspectors and
Vaccinators undergoing training at the Punjab Vacccine Institute. The case success was
51.8 per cent. This low figure is due to the fact that all the prisoners are vaccinated at the
time of admission.
Vaccinations per-
formed at the Insti-
tute.
During the last winter, on account of small-pox epidemic in Lahore, Mr. Phillips per-
formed 297 vaccinations at the Punjab Vaccine Institute, with a case success of 100 per cent.
in primary vaccination and 73 per cent. in re-vaccination.
Training of Pub-
lic Health staff.
During the period, from November 1926 to March 1927, 15 Sanitary Inspectors,
35 Vaccinators, 6 candidate Vaccinators and 12 Lady Health Visitors were trained at the
Punjab Vaccine Institute, in Elementary Hygiene, Vaccination and the technique of the
preparation of Vaccine.