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Vaccination amongst
railway
employees
residing on the pre-
mises belonging to
the
North- Western
Railway.
17. During the year under report the railway medical staff was made
responsible for the vaccination amongst railway employees and the returns
received from them show that 1,373 primary vaccinations and 1,194 re-vaccina-
tions were performed during the year with a percentage of success of 97.44 in
the case of primary vaccinations and 66.52 in that of re-vaccinations.
Inspection
work.
Statement No. V.
18. The Assistant Director of Public Health (Technical) Vaccination,
inspected Keonthal, Theog, Kiarkoti and Kumharsin Hill States of the Simla
District, and 22 villages and 2 towns of the Montgomery District. His inspec-
tions showed a success rate of 95.9 per cent. and 93.7 per cent. in the case of
primary and re-vaccinations, respectively.
The Assistant Director, Vaccination, inspected 27 towns and 244
villages in his circle, his results showing a success rate of 97.1 per cent. and
69.6 per cent. in the case of primary and re-vaccinations, respectively.
District Medical Officers of Health, Urban Medical Officers of Health
and Civil Surgeons conjointly inspected 120,274 primary and 46,595 re-vacci-
nations, the reported success rate being 96.1 and 70.2, respectively.
The Superintendents of Vaccination inspected 397,841 primary vaccina-
tions with a success rate of 96.9 per cent. and 167,872 re-vaccinations with a
success rate of 65.7 per cent. The vaccinators reported 96.5 per cent. success
in primary vaccinations and 70.9 in re-vaccinations.
Superior inspection of vaccination has now been delegated to the
District Medical Officers of Health, the Diector and his Assistants only under-
taking inspection for special purposes.
Vaccination
in
Large Punjab states.
19. The number of vaccinations performed in the large states, which
employ their own vaccinators, was as follows :—
Patiala, primary 53,015 and re-vaccinations 31,701 Bahawlpur, 22,265
and 734 ; Kapurthala, 4,145 and 887 ; Jind 7,991 and 264; Faridkot 4,044
and 255 and Nabha 818 primary operations only.
An increase in the number of persons vaccinated compared with the pre-
vious year was recorded only in the states of Patiala, Bahawalpur and Nabha.
The percentage of success in primary cases was 99.37 n Patiala, 99.39 in
Bahawalpur, 60.19 in Kapurthaia, 97.73 in Jind, 99.03 in Faridkot and 85.14
in Nabha.
In Patiala, Bahawalpur, Kapurthala, Jind and Faridkot the percentage
of successful re-vaccinations was 82.08, 88.42, 36.53, 100.00 and 89.81,
respectively.
Vaccination in Muni-
cipal Towns.
20. There were 86,797 births recorded in municipal towns during
1925-26 out of which 18,538 children under one year were reported to have
died. Therefore the number of infants available for vaccination was 68,259
of which 56,510 or 83 per cent. were successfully vaccinated as against 78 per
cent. in 1924-25 and 1923-24.
The total number of children available during the triennium for vacci-
nation in the towns in which the Vaccination Act is in force was 169,238 of
which 83 per cent. were successfully vaccinated as against 84 per cent. in the
preceding period. The annual percentages are given below : —
1925-26
1924-25
1928-24
... 88
... 80
... 82
The percentage of successful vaccination to the total number of avail-
able children in towns in which vaccination is not compulsory works out to
56 during 1925-26 compared with 68 in 1924-25 and 58 in 1923-24.
In spite of special efforts the provisions of the Vaccination Act were only
extended to the following municipalities and small towns :—
Hissar, Hansi, Mandi, Dobwali, Firozpur-Jhirka, Kalka, Nurpur and
Daska.
Inoculation.
21. The practice of inoculation has not completely died out in the
Punjab. A report was received that the people of Tika, Jharer Tappa and
Mema villages in the Kangra district were inoculated with the result that 94
persons developed smallpox, 6 of whom died. No clue to the identity of the
person who performed the incculations could be obtained. Similarly in Tappa
Kohla village 60 persons were inoculated and suffered from the disease