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Special Staff.
Total operations—
Statement No. I
and its appendix.
12. The number of primary operations and re-vaccinations performed
by the Vaccinators of the Special Staff during the year amounted to 17,063
and 68,973, respectively, as against 35,201 and 22,164 in the previous year.
The percentage of success was 97.00 in the case of primary operations
and 73.67 in the case of re-vaccinations as against 96.19 and 70.66, respectively,
in the preceding year.
The decrease of 18,138 in the number of primary vaccinations and an
increase of 46,809 in the number of re-vaccinations as compared with the figures
of the last year is mainly due to the increasing apathy towards vaccination of
the people in the Simla Hill States.
The increase in the number of re-vaccinations is mainly attributable
to the employment of the Special Staff to carry out re-vaccination in areas
where small-pox was prevalent.
Cantonment staff—
Statement No. I and
its appendix.
13. The total number of operations performed in cantonments that
employ their own vaccinators amounted to 4,049 primary and 4,390 re-vaccina-
tions as compared with 5,298 and 22,938, respectively, in the previous year.
The largest number of operations was performed in Lahore Cantonment (2,475),
Ambala Cantonment (2,264), and Rawalpindi Cantonment (1,381). The
percentage of success was 97.80 in case of primary and 57.68 in case of
re-vaccination as against 97.31 and 83.42 in the year 1925-26.
Dispensary Staff—
Statement No. III.
14. During the year under report only 2,974 vaccination opera-
tions were performed by medical officers in charge of dispensaries. Of
these 1,752 were primary and 1,222 re-vaccinations, the figures for the last
year being 8,242—3,845 primary and 4,397 re-vaccinations. The percentage
of success was 96.31 in primary and 87.89 in re-vaccination as compared
with 94.84 and 74.41 in the preceding year. The largest number of operations
(505) was performed at dispensaries in the Ambala district.
Vaccination amongst
railway employees.
15. During the year under report the railway medical staff performed
310 primary vaccinations and 848 re-vaccinations with a percentage of success
of 99.35 in case of primary vaccinations and 70.79 in the case of re-vaccination.
Inspection Work—
Statement No. V.
16. During the year the Assistant Director of Public Health, Punjab,
(Technical) Vaccination, visited Bushahr State and verified the results of 341
primary and 1,446 re-vaccinations. In addition he inspected 1,292 primary
and 293 re-vaccinations in the districts of Montgomery, Multan and Muzaffar¬
garh.
His inspections showed a success rate of 89.59 and 71.71 per cent.
in the case of primary and re-vaccinations, respectively.
The Assistant Director of Public Health, Punjab (Technical) Epide-
miology, inspected 554 vaccinations in the towns and villages of the Kangra,
Gurdaspur and Amritsar districts, the percentage of success being 99.80
in the case of primary vaccination and 92.16 in the case of re-vaccination.
The Assistant Director of Public Health, Ambala Circle, and Assistant
Director of Public Health, Rawalpindi Circle, inspected 1,317 and 480 primary
and 419 and 3 re-vaccinations, respectively, in the Ambala and Rawalpindi
Circles, the percentage of success being 87.70 and 95.00 in the case of
primary operations and 48.93 and 100.0 in the case of re-vaccinations.
The Civil Surgeons, District Medical Officers of Health, and Municipal
Medical Officers of Health inspected 119,594 primary vaccinations and 48,245
re-vaccinations whilst the Superintendents of Vaccination inspected 389,282
primary and 203,754 re-vaccinations. The percentage of success reported by
the above officers was 96.61 in the case of primary vaccinations and 62.77
in the case of re-vaccinations whilst the results reported by the Superin-
tendent of Vaccination were 97.50 and 69.64, respectively.
I inspected 400 primary and 100 re-vaccinations and found them all
successful.
Vaccination
in
large Punjab States.
17. The number of vaccinations performed in the large Punjab States
which maintain their own Vaccination establishment was as follows :—
Patiala, 47,558 primary and 21,797 re-vaccinations; Bahawalpur, 22,163
and 330; Kapurthala, 5,013 and 1,260 ; Nabha, 1,419 and 54; and Faridkot 4,090