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introduction of compulsory vaccination in all rural areas, as has already
been done in Bengal and to some extent in some other provinces. I
cannot too strongly impress these views upon Government in the hope that
they will extend vaccination by notification to the whole province at a
very early date. The effect of this notification would be that all depart-
ments of Government would then be required by law to assist the
Vaccination department in carrying out their duties and, with this
assistance, I do not anticipate that legal action would be necessary in an
appreciable number of cases.
Vaccination Act.
18. The Vaccination Act is in force in all municipalities, canton-
ments and notified areas except in the notified
areas of Rikhikesh (Dehra Dun) and Gunj Dund¬
wara (Etah). Steps are being taken to extend the Act to these areas.
Compulsory vaccina-
tion in rural areas.
19. The proposals for the extension of the United Provinces Vacci-
nation Act to the rural areas were submitted to
Government, but for the present Government have
only agreed to extend the Act to the town areas
and with this view have addressed Commissioners of divisions asking for
their opinion as to the desirability of introducing compulsion in town
areas. Attention is invited to my remarks in paragraph 17 above.
General results of
inspection.
(Statement V.)
20. (a) By Assistant
Directors of Public Health and
District
Superintendents
of Vaccination.—The
total
number of vaccination operations inspected by the
Assistant Directors of Public Health and District
Superintendents of Vaccination during 1925-26
was 194,479 (191,060 primary and 3,419 re-vaccinations) as compared
with 154,799 and 145,559 in 1924-25 and 1923-24, respectively, the
average for the triennium under review being 164,946 as against 159,413
during the preceding triennium. This shows a satisfactory increase of
39,680 inspections in 1925-26 as compared with 1924-25 and an increase of
5,533 in the triennium under review as compared with the preceding trien-
nium. The percentage of inspections to total number vaccinated was 14.91
in the case of primary and 1.86 in the case of re-vaccinations in 1925-26 as
against 12.63 and .60 in 1924-25 and 12.01 and .69 in 1923-24, respectively.
The increase is chiefly due to the appointment of District Medical Officers
of Health and Assistant District Medical Officers of Health in several
districts. The districts showing a large number of vaccination inspections
in 1925-26 were Azamgarh (14,645), Gorakhpur (13,251), Jaunpur (11,097),
Sultanpur (8,974) and Jalaun (8,566). Among the districts showing a small
number of inspections the most conspicuous were Naini Tal (200), Almora
(270), Etawah (439), Cawnpore (498) and Fatehpur (559).
(b) By Assistant Superintendents
of Vaccination and other inspect-
ing officers.—These officials inspected 623,525 vaccinations (571,959 pri-
mary and 51,566 re-vaccinations) during the year under report, as against
580,423 in 1924-25 and 560,034 in 1923-24 The average for the three
years under report works out to 587,994 as against 579,962 for the
preceding triennium. The percentage of inspections to the total number
vaccinated in 1925-26 was 44.64 as regards primary and 28.00 as regards
re-vaccinations against 45.28 and 36.33 in 1924-25 and 43.72 and 37.00
in 1923-24, respectively.
During 1925-26 the largest number of inspections (37,485) was, as
usual, performed in Gorakhpur, which has two Assistant Superintendents
of Vaccination. Then in order came Almora with 23,858, Bareilly with