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The expenditure debitable to District Boards (Rs. 1,39,165) remained
practically the same as last year but the expenditure incurred by Municipal
Committees on vaccination exhibited an increase of Rs. 6,510 during the year
under review. The average cost of each succesful vaccination was Re. 0-5-4
as compared with Re. 0-5-2 in the previous year. The cause of the increase
has already been explained. The average cost of each successful vaccination
carried out by District and Municipal Staff was Re. 0-3-9 as compared with
Re. 0-3-8 in the previous year whilst the average cost of each successful
vaccination performed by the Special Staff was reduced, owing to the increased
number of vaccinations, from Re. 0-11-2 in the previous year to Re. 0-8-7 in
the year under review
Under the orders of the Government of India the
whole cost of the pay and travelling allowance of the Assistant Directors of
Circles which amount to approximately Rs. 21,475 is shown as a debit in
calculating the cost of vaccination, but it should be explained that the in-
spection of vaccination only forms a small part of the duties of these officers.
The total sum chargeable to provincial revenue on account of vaccination
operations including charges an account of the Punjab Vaccine Institute and
the Special Staff of Vaccinators comes to Rs. 90,142 but against this sum must
be placed Rs. 41,633 which has been realised and credited to Government on
account of the sale of vaccine lymph.
Vaccination
Inspections.
Statement No. V.
13. During the year I inspected the results of 60 vaccinations
performed in the Simla Hill States by the Special Staff, of which 44
were primary and 16 re-vaccinations. The percentage of success was
81.82 and 50.00 respectively. I also inspected 486 primary vaccinations in
33 towns and villages of the Kangra District and found a percentage of success
of 98.15. The Assistant Director of Public Health (Technical) Vaccination
visited 45 villages in the Simla Hill States and verified the result of 226
primary and 521 re-vaccinations. The percentage of succes was 96.02 in the
former and 49.33 in the latter. He also inspected 709 primary vaccinations
in the Rawalpindi Circle where the percentage of success was 93.94. The
Civil Surgeons and officers of the Public Health Department inspected
91,357 primary vaccinations and
28,472 re-vaccinations whilst
the
Superintendents of Vaccination inspected 383,766 primary and 135,042
re-vaccinations. The percentage of success reported by the above officers was
97.93 in primary cases and 66.55 in re-vaccinations, whilst the Superintendents
of Vaccination reported that 96.68 primary and 73.68 re-vaccinations were
successful. The Superintendents of Vaccination were required to submit
periodically a nominal roll of the villages in which they carried out vaccina-
tion inspections showing in each case—
(1) the total number of children available for vaccination.
(2) the number of children left over from the previous year,
(3) the number of children vaccinated during the year ; and
(4) date of inspection.
These figures were examined and checked by Inspecting Officers who
were thus enabled to keep a close watch upon the work of their staff and to
arrange, where necessary, for further vaccinations to be carried out.
Vaccination in
Municipal towns.
14. There were until recently 158 Municipal towns, but 23
Municipal towns have now become Small Towns. A considerable number
of the 120 Notified Areas have also been constituted Small Towns of
which there are 107 in ail. The Vaccination Act has been extended
to 84 Municipal towns and 21 Notified Areas, but it is to be re-
corded with regret that the Act was not extended to any new localities
during the year under review. It should however be explained that it came
to light in the course of the year that the Vaccination Act could not be applied
to Small Towns until an amendment had been made in the Act. The
necessary amendment was however made by the Legislative Council at its
session in June 1925 and it will therefore be possible to extend the Act to many
Small Towns during the ensuing year. As stated in last year's report the
vaccination arrangements in many Municipal towns are defective but it is
satisfactory to be able to state that some improvement has, in certain towns,
taken place during the year under review. In Lahore (population 257,295)