( 5 )
during the year under report. Of these the number of successful primary
vaccinations was 336 and that of successful re-vaccinations 5,679. As
the returns received from military authorities do not contain all the
information required for our standard statements, the statistics contained
therein cannot be included in any of the statements appended to these
notes.
Vaccination in
notified areas.
15. The number of persons vaccinated and that of vaccination opera-
tions performed in the notified areas in 1923-24
were 11,841 and 12,209 respectively, as compared
with 11,771 and 11,922 respectively in 1922-23.
Of the 12,209 operations performed 11,776 were primary and 433 re-
vaccinations, as compared with 11,388 and 534 respectively in the preced-
ing year. The total number of successful primary vaccinations amounted
to 10,544 and that of successful re-vaccinations to 189 in 1923-24 as
against 10,826 and 304 respectively in the previous year. The number
of persons successfully vaccinated per 1,000 of the population was 31.62
in 1923-24 as against 32.46 in 1922-23. Of the well protected notified
areas, Shahganj (Jaunpur), Mainpuri Civil Station and Bhimtal (Naini
Tal) retained their last year's position as first, second and third with a
ratio of 62.11, 56.50 and 49.97 respectively. Then came Bhinga (Bah-
raich) with 49.75 and Badshahpur (Jaunpur) with 46.92. Among the
notified areas showing the least protection, the most conspicuous are
Shikohabad in the Mainpuri district (10.99), Auraiya in the Etawah
district (12.36), Bhowali in the Naini Tal district (19.10), Mubarakpur
in the Azamgarh district (19.12) and Deoria in the Gorakhpur district
(19.90). Auraiya went three steps down this year as compared with the
previous year. The decrease in Auraiya is due to an outbreak of plague.
In Bhowali it is assigned to the fact that a few children were left
unvaccinated as they were not keeping good health. In Shikohabad,
Mubarakpur and Deoria the decrease is ascribed to the supply of lymph of
low potency in the earlier part of the season.
Vaccination Act.
16. The Vaccination Act is in force in all cantonments and munici-
palities and in 46 out of 48 notified areas. Steps
are being taken to extend the Act to the notified
areas of Rikhikesh (Dehra Dun) and Ganj Dundwara (Etah). The pro-
posal to extend the Vaccination Act to rural areas has been shelved by
Government for the present.
General results of
inspection.
(Statement V.)
17. (a) By Assistant Directors of Public Health and
District
Superintendents of Vaccination.—There
has been
a decrease of 30,463 in the inspection work done by
the Assistant Directors of Public Health and Dis-
trict Superintendents of Vaccination during the year under report as
compared with the preceding year, the actual number of cases inspected
during the two years being 145,559 (145,156 primary and 403 re-vaccina-
tion) and 176,022 (174,655 primary and 1,367 re-vaccination) respec-
tively. The percentage of inspections to total number vaccinated in
1923-24 was 12.01 in the case of primary and .69 in the case of re-vacci-
nation as against 15.04 and 2.17 in 1922-23 respectively. The reasons
for the decrease are as follows :—
(1) Deputation of Dr. A. Sousa, Assistant Director of Public
Health, III Range, to supervise the sanitary arrangements