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Vaccination in no-
tified areas.
16. During the year under review, the number of persons vaccinated
in notified areas amounted to 13,583 and that of
operations performed to 213,806 (12,186 primary
and 1,620 re-vaccinations, as compared with 16,295
and 16,641 (13,076 primary and 3,565 re-vaccinations) in 1925-26. The
total number of successful vaccinations was 11,234 primary and 788 re-
vaccinations as against 11,813 and 1,283, respectively, in the preceding year.
The number of persons successfully vaccinated per 1,000 of the population
amounted to 34.45 against 37.53 in 1925-26.
Among the well-protected notified areas, Colonelganj stood first with a
ratio of 54.31, followed by Bhinga with 52.66, Nanpara with 48.88 and
Utraula with 47.87. Of the notified areas showing the least protection
the worst were Bhim Tal (10.24), Rikhikesh (12.51), Bargain Bazar
(17.04) and Ramnagar (19.01). In Bhim Tal and Ramnagar the decrease
is ascribed partly to few children having been left unvaccinated on
account of ill-health and partly to the non-occurrence of small-pox, while in
Bargain Bazar it was due to a large number of vaccinations (both primary
and re-vaccinations) having been performed in the railway compound
and workshops on account of the prevalence of small-pox in the town
during the vaccination season of 1925-26. Rikhikesh shows an improve-
ment over last year.
Vaccination of school
children.
17. As in the preceding year, a vigorous campaign of inspection of
school children for vaccination in rural areas was
carried on by the public health staff during the
year under review. According to the returns avail-
able up to date as many as 2,845 schools were visited by the district
health staff in this connection. The total number of children found un-
protected in these schools was 21,726. Of these, 17,J85 children were
vaccinated on the spot. In addition to this the assistant directors of
public health on general duty inspected a number of schools for the
purpose.
As a large number of boys who attend schools in rural arreas are not
protected against small-pox, Government circularised all chairmen, district
boards, and asked them to make an effort to get such boys vaccinated by
enlisting the support of parents and guardians.
Vaccination Act.
18. The Vaccination Act is in force in all municipalities, cantonments
and notified areas, except in the notified area of
Gunj Dundwara (Etah).
Compulsory vaccina-
tion in rural areas.
19. During the year under report Government addressed divisional
commissioners and asked them to express their views
after consulting district magistrates and the district
boards in their divisions as to whether legislation
should be undertaken for making vaccination compulsory throughout the
province. The matter is still under their consideration. The necessity of
extending the Vaccination Act to the rural area is urgent, and almost all
the district medical officers of health have recommended its extension,
vide paragraph 80 of the Sanitary Report for 1926.
General results of
inspection.
(Statement V).
20. (a) By Assistant Directors of Public Health and District Super-
intendents of Vaccination.—The
total number of
vaccination operations inspected by the assistant
directors of public health and district superinten-
dents of vaccination during the year under report showed a decrease of