No. 1742½.
FROM
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL C. J. BAMBER, I.M.S.,
Sanitary Commissioner, Punjab,
To
W. M. HAILEY, ESQUIRE, C. S.,
Offg. Judicial and General Secretary to Government, Punjab.
Dated LAHORE, the 1st July 1905.
SIR,
I HAVE the honour to submit, for the information of His Honour the
Officiating Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab, the Annual Vaccination Returns
for the year 1904-05. In my Notes for 1902-03 and 1903-04 I made brief
remarks on the most important points in the returns for those years. In the
present Report I will deal more fully with the work performed during the trien-
nial period ending 1904-05.
Administration.
2. I held charge of the Vaccination Department throughout the year.
Captain W. F. Harvey, I.M.S., carried on the duties of
Deputy Sanitary Commissioner from 1st to 11th April
1904 and from 2nd October 1904 to 31st March 1905. For the intervening
period, from 12th April to 30th June 1904, he worked as Assistant Director of
the Pasteur Institute at Kasauli, and from 8th July to 1st October 1904 he
was on privilege leave. During his absence, Captain W. H. C. Forster, I.M.S.,
acted for him.
Establishment.
State-
ment No. II.
3. There was no material change in the strength of the vaccination staff.
The average number of vaccinators employed in the Prov-
ince in 1904-05 was two hundred and sixty-one, being one
more than in the previous year and two less than in 1902-03. The number
of Superintendents of Vaccination was twenty-seven in 1902-03. In 1903-04
and 1904-05 two more men were appointed for the newly constituted districts
of Miánwáli and Attock. There were three Divisional Inspectors of Vaccina-
tion and Registration of Births and Deaths in 1902-03, one each for the
Divisions of Delhi, Jullundur and Rawalpindi. In November 1903 the
appointments of Divisional Inspectors for the Lahore and Multán Divisions
were also sanctioned, so that in 1904-05 each of the five Divisions of the Prov-
ince had its own Inspector.
Cost of the Department.
Statement No. II.
4. The total expenditure of the Vaccination Department, as shown in
Statement No. II, was Rs. 92,688. This amount does not
include the cost of the vaccination staff of the Kángra
district from which no returns were received owing to the recent earthquake.
If the figures for this district are excluded from the returns of the previous
two years, the total expenditure for 1904-05 would show an increase of
Rs. 3,686 and Rs. 2,120, respectively, as compared with 1903-04 and 1902-03,
chiefly under the following heads : (1) Pay of Divisional Inspectors and (2)
Contingencies.
Average cost per success-
ful case. Statement No.II.
5. The average cost of each successful operation was two annas
and four pies, or exactly the same as in the previous
year, and two pies less than in 1902-03.
Total operations by all
establishments. Statement
No. I.
6. In 1901-02, when plague broke out for the first time in a severe
epidemic form in the Province, vaccination operations
were suspended in certain badly infected tracts owing to
the people being in a disturbed state of mind, and this
caused a considerable falling off in the total amount of work for that year;
but, as it was feared that plague might recur year by year, I pointed out the
advisability of leaving, in future, no infected area unprotected against small-pox.
The Punjab Government, accepting my suggestion, ordered vaccination to be