VACCINATION REPORT.
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The percentage of total success both under primary and re-vaccinations
during the year showed a slight decrease. The decrease was prominent under
" Cantonment Vaccinators" and " Dispensaries," over whom the Deputy
Inspectors of Vaccination have little control.
When compared with the previous year, the following districts show largest
increases in infantile vaccination :—
Malabar (+17.9 per cent.), Nilgiris ( + 13.4 per cent), Bellary (+11.8 per
cent.), Rāmnād (+9.8 per cent.) and Kurnool (+6.6 per cent.).
(iv) The cost of the various vaccination staffs and the average cost of each
successful case are exhibited in the subjoined statement :—
Establishment.
Government establishment ...
Local Fund ... ...
Municipal ... ...
Cantonments ... ...
Total
...
Total expenditure.
1913-14.
RS.
7,392
2,88,231
39,068
2,992
* 3,37,685
A.
12
5
13
12
12
P.
3
11
11
7
8
1914-15.
RS.
8,216
2,96,130
40,574
3,144
† 3,48,065
A.
5
7
3
14
14
P.
7
3
5
5
8
Average cost of each
successful case.
1913-14.
RS.
0
0
0
0
0
A.
6
3
4
5
3
P.
4
7
8
3
8
1914-15.
RS.
0
0
0
0
0
A.
7
3
4
4
3
P.
0
8
11
10
10
* Exclusive of the pay and allowances of the Inspectors of Vaccination and Deputy Sanitary Commissioners,
Central and Northern Ranges.
† Exclusive of the pay and allowances of the Inspectors of Vaccination and Deputy Sanitary Commissioners,
Northern, Central and Southern Ranges.
Establishment charges were high under each of the above mentioned heads
the consequence being that the average cost of each successful case rose from
As. 3-8 in 1913-14 to As. 3-10 in the year under report. In no district did this cost
exceed As. 5-9. The district which showed this rate was Chingleput. The rate
was above As. 7 in the municipalities of Bimlipatam, Coonoor, Karūr, Madras
and Tiruvālūr.
(v) Vaccination is compulsory in all municipalities and 149,874 operations were
performed in them during the year against 152,809 in 1913-14. Madura ( + 3,789)
and Madras (+3,675) showed the largest increases. The towns which showed
marked decreases were Guntūr (-7,533), Tuticorin (-1,365), Tanjore (-1,152),
Bezwada (-710), Bellary (- 677), Ongole ( - 532) and Vellore (-470). In Guntūr
the decrease was due to less number of re-vaccination cases performed in the
year than in 1913-14 when owing to a severe outbreak of small-pox an
unusually large number of re-vaccinations was performed. In the remaining
towns the decrease is attributed to one or other of the following causes :—less
prevalence of small-pox, prevalence of plague, non-entertainment of temporary
vaccinators and reduction in the minimum number of cases required to be done
by vaccinators.
(vi) The following table exhibits the comparative success obtained by the use
of different kinds of lymph in primary vaccination :—
Number of cases
excluding
unknown.
1,331,212
...
87,924
26,875
Area.
Local Fund ...
Do. ...
Municipalities ...
Do. ...
Kind of lymph.
Lanoline lymph ...
Glycerine „ ...
Lanoline
„ ...
Glycerine „ ...
Whence obtained.
Supplied by the King Institute
of Preventive Medicine, Guindy.
Do.
Do.
Do.
Percentage of
success.
90.5
...
94.0
97.9
The percentage of success from lanoline lymph was 90.5 in 1914-15 against
91.5 in 1913-14 in local fund areas and 94.0 and 95.2, respectively, in munici
palities. Glycerinated lymph also showed a decreased success rate of 97.9 against
98.1 in the previous year.
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