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The percentage of success was 97.90 in the case of primary and 75.79 in
that of revaccination as against 97.83 and 71.36, respectively, in the previous
year and the ratio per cent. of unknown cases to total cases in the case of pri-
mary was 1.95 and in revaccination 7.86 as compared with 1.53 and 4.37 in
1911-12.
Diepensary
staff.
Statement No, III.
11. At dispensaries the total number of operations performed were
10,603 as compared with 1,590 in the preceding year. Of the 10,603 opera-
tions 4,224 were primary and 6,379 revaccination as against 923 and 667
in 1911-12. The ratio of success in primary was 95.97 and in revaccination
67.22 as compared with 95.13 and 61.62 in the previous year. The largest
numher of persons vaccinated at dispensaries was 4,621 in the Jullundur dis-
trict, 2,074 in Ferozepore, 1,576 in Lahore, and 821 in Gujrat districts which
were all badly infected with small-pox.
Inspection work.
Statement No. V.
12. Lieutenant-Colonel Wilkinson inspected 578 primary vaccinations,
of which 185 were unsuccessful in the Pindigheb tahsil of the Attock district
and 17 primary and 18 revaccinations in the Simla district. The percent-
age of success in those seen by him was 68.74 in the case of primary and
22.22 in that of revaccination. The work done at Pindigheb was not satis-
factory, and action was taken to punish the vaccinators at fault. In addi-
tion I inspected vaccinated children in certain districts and found the work
done well, yielding a ratio of success of 97.44 per cent.
The Deputy Sanitary Commissioner, Punjab, visited 213 towns and
villages in different localities of the province and inspected 2,416 primary and
1,281 revaccinations. The ratio of success in the former was 93.63 per cent,
and that in the latter 68 62 per cent.
Civil Surgeons made 60,166 inspections of primary vaccinations and
16,572 of revaccinations; Divisional Inspectors 100,881 and 13,787, and
Superintendents of Vaccination 463,826 and 157,322, respectively. The per-
centages of success verified by Civil Surgeons were 96.37 in primary and 63.75
in revaccination as compared with 91.46 and 57.89 and 96.86 and 73.29 found
by Divisional Inspectors and Superintendents, respectively. The rates of
success reported by vaccinators were 98.00 in primary and 73.63 in revaccina-
tion as against 95.04 and 71.97 in the previous year.
Vaccination
in
large Native States.
13. The number of vaccination operations performed in the large
Native States which employ their own vaccination establishment was as
follows:—In the Patiala State there were 53,826 primary operations and
24,612 revaccinations, a slight increase in the number of primary vaccinations
as compared with the previous year; the revaccinations, however, show a
decrease of 2,355. In the Bahawalpur and Kapurthala States there were
16,709 and 5,026 primary and 1,375 and 1,432 revaccinations as compared
with 14,885 and 4,528 primary and 357 and 129 revaccinations in 1911-12. In
Jind 7,414 and Nabha only 580 primary vaccinations were performed as
against 8,419 and 680 in 1911-12, and in neither of these States were any
revaccinations recorded. In Faridkot there were 4,264 primary and 369
revaccinations as compared with 5,067 and 17 in the year preceding. The per-
centage of successful primary vaccination was 98.70 in Patiala, 92.78 in
Bahawalpur, 99.70 in Kapurthala, 92.25 in Jind, 87.30 in Nabha and 97.77
in Faridkot. In the case of revaccination the percentage of success varied
between 77.86 in Patiala and 34.22 in Kapurthala.
Vaccination work
in municipal towns.
14. Eighty-three per cent. of the total number of children under one
year of age available for vaccination were protected against small-pox in the
towns in which the Vaccination Act is in force as compared with 70 per cent.
in those towns in which it is not compulsory. The corresponding figures
for 1911-12 were 86 and 64 and for the quinquennial period 79 and 63, respec-
tively. In the three largest towns of the province the percentages were in
Lahore 77 as against 139 in 1911-12, Amritsar 85 as against 70, and Multan
71 as against 74. The reasons for the high percentage achieved in Lahore in
1911-12 were given in the Annual Vaccination Notes for that year. No
municipal town in the Province was brought under the operation of the com-
pulsory Vaccination Act during the year.
Punjab
Vaccine
Institute.
15. The principal buildings of the Punjab Vaccine Institute at Lahore
were completed during the year 1912 at a cost of Rs. 52,464 and were
ready for occupation and work by the 1st October ; certain additional improve-
ments are being carried out, such as the provision of new stables for the separate
housing of pre and post operative calves and for the isolation of the sick ; 284
calves were successfully vaccinated, and the average yield of crude lymph was
43.3 grammes from each buffalo calf and 15.8 grammes from each cow calf. In a
comparatively large number of cases a proper reaction was not obtained ; with