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The total number of persons vaccinated amounted to 801 in 1910-11 as
compared with 919 in 1909-10 and 748 in 1908-09.
During the year under report the ratio of success in primary was 98.68
and in re-vaccination 51.22 as against 97.42 and 85.47 in 1909-10 and 98.27 and
52.60 in 1908-09. As very little vaccination work is performed at dispensaries,
the increase or decrease noticed from time to time requires no explanation.
Inspection work. Statement No. V.
15. I inspected the vaccination in the districts of Ambala, Karnal,
Delhi, Rohtak, Lahore, Amritsar, Jul-
lundur and Ludhiana. The total number
of primary operations inspected was 1,471 of which 1,255 were successful,
yielding a rate of 85.32 per cent. Only one re-vaccination was examined and
that was found successful.
The Deputy Sanitary Commissioner inspected 1,382 primary operations
and 358 re-vaccinations in which he found a ratio of success in the former of
90.01 and in the latter 67.32 per cent. The percentages of success found by
Civil Surgeons were 94.86 in primary and 74.84 in re-vaccination as compared
with 94.67 and 72.35 and 96.65 and 72.52 verified by Divisional Inspectors and
Superintendents respectively. The rates of success reported by vaccinators
were 97.20 in primary and 73.31 in re-vaccination as against 97.58 and 74.28
in 1909-10 and 98.43 and 77.00 in 1908-09.
Vaccination in large Native States.
16. The large Native States maintain their own establishment and
vaccination work done in these terri-
tories is noted in the vaccination notes
year after year, but not included in the returns attached to this report. In
Patiala the vaccination work was under the supervision of Lieutenant-Colonel
C. H. James, I.M.S., and the statements received show that there were 49,298
primary operations and 28,294 re-vaccinations during the year as against 42,047
and 26,643, respectively, in the previous year. The percentage of success was
99.02 in the case of primary and 77.08 in that of re-vaccination as compared
with 99.26 and 76.38. In Bahawalpur. the next largest State, primary vacci-
nations amounted to 12,768 and re-vaccinations to 326 showing a decrease
of 275 in primary and an increase of 187 in re-vaccination compared with
the figures for last year. The percentage of success was reported to be 94.23
in primary and 71.72 in re-vaccination. In the Kapurthala and Faridkot
States 4,363 and 4,598 primary operations and only 68 and 18 re-vaccinations,
respectively, were performed in 1910-11, showing an increase of 125, 1,527, 35
and 6 over the figures for the previous year. The ratios of success were
99.54, 96.30, 69.12 and 93.75 per cent. In the Jind and Nabha States 6,803
and 959 primary vaccinations were performed and no re-vaccinations while
the rates of success were 95.99 and 83.23 per hundred.
Vaccination work in municipal towns.—Appendix A.
17. Of the total number of children under one year of age available
for vaccination in 1910-11 in the towns
in which the Vaccination Act is in
force 72 per cent. were successfully vaccinated as against 62 in those in which
it was not in force. The corresponding figures for the year preceding were
79 and 62.
A similar percentage of successfully vaccinated children in Delhi was
66, Lahore 82, Amritsar 55 and Multan 70 as compared with 83, 72, 62 and 94
respectively in the previous year.
The compulsory Vaccination Act was extended to the municipal town
of Muzaffargarh during the year, and a proposal to extend the Act to the town
of Kalabagh in the Mianwali district is under consideration. A large number
of children remain unprotected every year in the town of Jagraon in the
Ludhiana district, and I have drawn the attention of the authorities concerned
to this fact and have advised the necessity of making the Vaccination Act
compulsory there.