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all Civil Surgeons last year, before the commencement of the vaccinating season,
asking them to direct the vaccination staff to re-vaccinate one-eighth part of a
district every year, so that the whole of it might be finished in the course of
seven or eight years. This order, I am glad to find, has been carried out with
marked success in many of the districts, as will be seen from the large number
of re-vaccinations performed during the year 1904-05. There are, however, a
few districts in which the work was most unsatisfactory, as, for instance,
Rohtak and Gurgáon, in which practically little or nothing was done. In both
of these districts, on account of the severe prevalence of plague, the
people were found most averse to get their children re-vaccinated, labouring
under a misapprehension that inoculations for plague were meant to be enforced
under the guise of re-vaccinations. The Deputy Commissioners and Civil
Surgeons of these districts tried their best to remove this erroneous idea from
the minds of the people, but without success ; and after many fruitless attempts
on the part of the vaccinators to carry on re-vaccinations, the matter was
dropped.
District Staff. Percentage
of success.
Statement
No. 1.
10. Of the total number of primary vaccinations performed by the
District Staff, 99.26 per cent. were reported successful
in 1904-05 and 99.23 in 1903-04, or almost exactly in
the same proportion, calculating on the total cases in
which the results were known.
The percentage of success varies
slightly in different districts. As regards re-vaccinations, the precentage
amounted to 81.64, showing a satisfactory increase of 5.19 compared with the
previous year. The percentage of cases in which the results were unknown
to total cases was very much higher in re-vaccinations, being 15.21, as against
2.63 in primary vaccinations. Compared with the previous year, the percen-
tage in the case of re-vaccinations, however, shows a decrease of 2.27, As regards
primary operations, the rate of unknown cases remains almost the same.
Ratio of persons success-
fully vaccinated per 1,000
of population. Statement
No. I.
11. The rate of persons successfully vaccinated by the District Staff per
1,000 of population was 30.02 in 1904-05, compared with
29.10 and 28.49, respectively, in 1903-04 [and 1902-03, show-
ing a slight but steady increase in the work during the
triennial period. In several districts the proportion of those
vaccinated is very much below the provincial ratio. The attention of Civil
Surgeons will [be drawn to this, with the view to strenuous efforts being made
to increase the work during the next vaccinating season.
Special Staff. Statement
No. I and Appendix to
Statement No. 1.
12. The amount of work done by the Special Staff in 1904-05, as regards
primary vaccinations, was slightly in excess of that of the
last year and considerably greater than that of the year be-
fore last. The actual figures were in 1902-03 only 31,086,
in 1903-04 the number increased to 43,132 and in 1904-05 to 44,033. There was
a very large increase in re-vaccinations, the total operations in 1904-05 amounting
to 6,649 as against 2,820 and 3,202 in the preceding two years. The work of the
Special Staff is very satisfactory, taking into consideration that the average
number of vaccinators employed in 1904-05 was four less than in the previous
two years. Two vaccinators were brought under reduction in 1904-05 on account
of the re-organization of the Staff. The Special Staff did most of the work in
certain tahsils in the districts of Hissár, Karnál, Jhang,Gujrán wála and Hoshiár-
pur, and in the Bashahr and Biláspur States, in the summer, but owing to the
opposition of the people in some of the smaller Hill States, they could not do
much work. Of the total primary vaccinations in which the results were known
98.07 per cent. were successful in 1904-05, showing a slight increase of 0.21 as
compared with the previous year. The percentage of success in re-vaccinations
was 66.95 as against 71.57.
Cantonment Staff. Appen-
dix to Statement No. 1.
13. The work of the Cantonment Staff was, on the whole, slightly bet-
ter than in the previous two years. The total primary-
operations in 1904-05 were 4,406, an increase of 352 over
the number done in the preceding year. The amount of work in 1903-04 and
1902-03 was nearly equal. The number of re-vaccinations in 1904-05 amounted
to 2,806, showing a slight decrease of 143 compared with the previous year, and
an increase of 318 over the number performed in 1902-03. The percentage
of successful primary operations was 98.56 and of re-vaccinations 85.49, showing