No. 32122 (H.—PUBLIC HEALTH).
FROM
J. G. BEAZLEY, ESQ., I.C.S.,
Secretary to Government, Punjab,
Transferred Departments,
To
THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH,
PUNJAB.
Dated Lahore, the 8th December 1927.
Home.
Public Health.
SUBJECT :—Annual Vaccination Report and Returns for 1926-27.
SIR,
I AM directed by the Punjab Government (Ministry of Local Self-
Government) to acknowledge receipt of Colonel Forster's letter No. 19252,
dated 8th November 1927, forwarding the Annual Vaccination Report and
Returns for 1926-27 and to convey the following observations.
2. The total number of operations performed during the year was
1,242,090, an increase of about 25,000 on the number performed in the previous
year. A special effort made to re-vaccinate school children accounted for an
increase of over 50,000 in the number of re-vaccinations, but in the absence of
any wide-spread epidemic of small-pox there was a falling off in the number of
primary vaccinations. The staff was augmented by one Superintendent and 42
vaccinators during the year with the result that the average number of opera-
tions performed by each vaccinator fell by above 10 per cent. and the cost of
each operation rose about 7 per cent. The percentage of success in the case of
primary operations is reported to have been 97.79 as compared with 96.54 in
1925-26.
3. In towns in which the Vaccination Act, 1880, is in force 87 per
cent. of the children available for vaccination were successfully vaccinated :
in other towns the percentage was only 66. Though the Act was extended
to 28 more towns during the year there were still at the end of the year 9
municipalities, 15 notified areas and 80 small towns where the Act was
not in force, and the Punjab Government (Ministry of Local Self-Govern-
ment) trust that further special efforts will be made to induce the local
bodies in these places to agree to the application of the Act. Several district
boards have passed resolutions asking that the Act should be extended to the
areas under their control, and the amendment of the Act so as to enable this
to be effected is now under consideration.
4. The Punjab Vaccine Institute continued to function successfully and
various additions and alterations were made to the buildings at Lahore and
Murree during the year. Nearly 52,000 tubes of vaccine, equivalent to about
3,372,000 doses, were issued, of which about 35,000 were for use in the Punjab
and Punjab States, nearly 5,000 for use in the North-West Frontier Province,
and nearly 9,000 for use in other parts, including Kabul, Persia, and the Persian
Gulf, Baluchistan and a dozen Indian States. In addition about 3,000 tubes
were issued to the Army Department.
5. Khan Bahadur Dr. K. A. Rahman held charge of the office of
Assistant Director of Public Health (Technical) Vaccination and Military
Assistant-Surgeon H. C. Philips, I. M. O., was in charge of the Punjab
Vaccine Institute, and I am to request that you will convey to them and the
other officers of the department the acknowledgments of the Punjab Govern-
ment (Ministry of Local Self-Governments for their work during the year.
I have, etc.,
J. G. BEAZLEY,
Secretary to Government, Punjab, Transferred
Departments
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