3
Cantonment
Staff,
Statement No. I and
its Appendix.
11. The work done in those cantonments which entertain their own
vaccinators amounted to 4,068 primary vaccinations and 1,454 re-vaccinations,
an increase of 524 in the case of the former and a decrease of 2,587 in the
latter over the corresponding figures for last year. The largest number of
persons vaccinated was 2,037 in Ambala and 1,030 in Lahore Can-
tonment. The percentage of success was 98.93 in primary and 70.73
in re-vaccinations as against 97.91 and 69.03 in the previous year
and the ratio per cent of unknown cases to total cases in the case of primary
was 1.50 and re-vaccination
10.94 as compared with 1.38
and
9.38.
Dispensary
Staff
Statement No. III.
12. During the year under report vaccination was performed at dis-
pensaries in 7 out of the 29 districts, the total being 14.26 primary and
928 re-vaccinations as against 19.37 and 18.44 in the previous
year. The percentage of success was 98.93 in primary and
85.85 in
re-vaccination as compared with 98.53 and 88.02 in the preceding
year. The largest number of operations 14.05 was performed at dispen-
saries in the Ferozepore District, Attock coming next with 483.
Inspection work
Statement No. V.
13. Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. C., Forster, D.P.H., I.M.S., my pre-
decessor, inspected 150 primary and 50 re-vaccinations and the result was good.
During the year the Deputy Sanitary Commissioner visited 88 towns and villages
and inspected the result of 786 primary and 235 re-vaccinations. He
found a percentage of success of 95.17 in primary and 55.32 in re-
vaccinations. The Additional Deputy Sanitary Commissioner, owing to his
other duties of Chief Plague Medical Officer and Chief Malaria Medical Officer
as also those of Deputy Sanitary Commissioner for a short period, had no
time to inspect vaccinations during the winter months. Civil Surgeons and
Medical Officers of Health made 57,372 inspections of primary vaccination
and 13,648 of re-vaccination, Divisional Inspectors 113,654 and 30,382
and Superintendents of Vaccination 421,459 and 144,115, respectively.
The percentage of success verified by Civil Surgeons and Medical Officers of
Health was 94.06 in primary and 72.42 in re-vaccination, as com-
pared
with 93.13 and 72.19 and 94.91 and
67.16 found
by
Divisional Inspectors and Superintendents, respectively. The rates of success
reported by vaccinators were 96.40 in primary and 72.60 in re-vacci-
nation as against 97.95 and 76.10 in the preceding year.
Vaccination in large
Native States.
14. The vaccination operations performed in the large Native States
which employ their own vaccinators were as follows :— Patiala, primary
51,690, re-vaccination 28,947 ; Bahawalpur
14,712
and
298;
Faridkot 6,829 and 91; Kapurthala 3,262 and 396 and Jind and Nabha 9,222
and 202, respectively, primary vaccinations. There was an increase in the
total number of persons vaccinated in all these States excepting Bahawalpur.
The percentage of success in primary cases was 98.48 in Patiala, 98.14 in
Bahawalpur, 97.62 in Faridkot 97.94 in Kapurthala, 98.37 in Jind and 80.11 in
Nabha. In Patiala, Bahawalpur, Faridkot and Kapurthala the percentage of
successful re-vaccination was 74.25, 82.91, 50.70 and 67.17 respectively.
Vaccination in Muni-
cipal towns, Appen-
dix A.
15. Eighty-six per cent. of the total number of children under one year
of age available for operation were successfully vaccinated in the towns in
which the Vaccination Act is in force as against 48 per cent. in those towns
in which it is not in force, the corresponding rates for the previous year be-
ing 80 and 63 per cent. In the three largest towns of the Province the per-
centage of successfully vaccinated children was 152 in Lahore, 85 in Amritsar
and 56 in Multan as compared with 100, 79 and 55, respectively, in 1919-20.
In Lahore after deducting infantile deaths from births the number of children
available was 6,179 and the number of those successfully vaccinated was 9,367.
This number includes children born elsewhere but residing within the limits of
the municipality at the time of vaccination.
During the year the Vaccination Act was extended to 3 municipal
towns, víz., Faridabad, Tanda-Urmar and Dera Nanak, and to 7 Notified Areas
Mehm (Rohtak District), Kangra, Palampur (Kangra District) and Khadian
and Patti (Lahore District), Jandiala (Amritsar) and Jahanian (Multan).