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Dispensary staff.—
Statement No. III.
12. As compared with last year there was an increase of 137 primary
and 942 re-vaccinations performed at dispensaries with a percentage of success
of 99.73 in primary and 73.28 in re-vaccination as against 97.07 and 83.96 in
1914-15. The largest number of operations (1,173) was performed at dis-
pensaries in the Ferozepore District.
Inspection work.—
Statement No. V.
13. During my inspection of Amritsar City and Gurdaspur I saw
some children who were recently vaccinated and found that the operation had
been properly carried out. The Deputy Sanitary Commissioner visited
88 towns and villages inspecting 799 primary and 679 re-vaccinations. The
ratio of success in primary operations was 95.99 and in re-vaccinations 60.68
percent. During his tours of inspection in Simla Hill States from June to
September he approached some of the State authorities and tried to convince
them of the necessity for bringing up children under 3 or 4 years of age for
vaccination owing to their susceptibility to small-pox and of their danger to
others, with some success. The Additional Deputy Sanitary Commissioner
inspected 10,544 vaccinations in 25 towns and 546 villages of the Jhelum,
Rohtak, Karnal, Shahpur, Attock, Sialkot, Hoshiarpur and Ambala districts, the
results in most of the districts being very encouraging. Of the total number
inspected 8,868 were primary and 1,676 re-vaccinations with a percentage of
success of 91.28 in the case of the former and 73.57 in that of the latter.
Civil Surgeons and Health Officers made 58,692 inspections of primary
vaccination and 9,546 of re-vaccination, Divisional Inspectors 100,256 and 16.092
and Superintendents of Vaccination 450,390 and 112,511, respectively. The
percentage of success verified by the Civil Surgeons and Health Officers was
92.74 in primary and 69.89 in re-vaccination, as compared with 92.99 and 58.59
and 95.00 and 71.71 found by Divisional Inspectors and Superintendents,
respectively. The rates of success reported by vaccinators were 96.45 in
primary and 73.38 in re-vaccination as against 97.13 and 70.68 in the year
preceding.
Vaccination in large
Native States.
14. The number of primary vaccinations and re-vaccinations performed
in 1915-16 in the Native States which entertain their own vaccinators was as
follows :—Patiala 50.065 and 28,688, Bahawalpur 14,127 and 120, Kapurthala
4,466 and 62, Faridkot 5,503 and 132, in Jind 10,221, and in Nabha 283
primary vaccinations There was an increase in the total number of persons
vaccinated in Patiala, Kapurthala and Faridkot and a slight decrease in other
States as compared with the work for the previous yea r. The percentage
of successful primary vaccination was 98.45 in Patiala, 96.67 in Bahawalpur,
99.57 in Kapurthala, 99.16 in Faridkot, 95.83 in Jind and 97.38 in Nabha.
In the case of re-vaccination the percentage of success varied between 33.00
in Faridkot and 75.47 in Bahawalpur. In Patiala where the largest number
of re-vaccintions were performed the rate was 77.15 per cent.
Vaccination in muni-
cipal towns.
15. Eighty-four per cent. of the total number of children under one
year of age available for operation in 1915-16 were successfully vaccinated
in the towns in which the Vaccination Act is in force as against 66 per cent.
in those towns in which it was not in force, the corresponding rates for the
previous year being 79 and 67 per cent. In the three largest towns of the
province the percentage of successfully vaccinated children was 92 in Lahore,
86 in Amritsar and 79 in Multan as compared with 89, 76 and 86, respectively,
in 1914-15. Of the 95 persons in Rawalpindi who were prosecuted for not
submitting their children for vaccination, 29 were punished and Rs. 63-9-0
realized as fines.
In 1915-16 the Vaccination Act, XIII of 1880, was extended to the
municipal towns of Palwal in the Gurgaon, Sargodha and Miani in the Shah-
pur and Shujabad in the Multan districts. In Sialkot town vaccination opera-
tions were performed during the year under the provisions of the Vaccination
Act and the question of the extension of the Act to the municipalities of
Gojra, Sahiwal, Bhakkar, Dinga and Kunjah was under the consideration of
Government at the close of the year under report.