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Dispensary Staff.
Statement No. III.
14. Dispensary Staff.—There has been an increase of 3,209 in the
number of vaccinations performed at dispensaries, 1,385
primary and 1,824 re-vaccination during the present period
compared with the previous triennial period. The number of primary operations
performed during the year 1907-08 was 560 and 891 re-vaccinations. The corres-
ponding figures for 1906-07 were 443 and 527 and for 1905-06, 792 and 610.
The percentage of success in the case of primary operations during 1907-08
was 95.87 and of re-vaccinations 80.21 as against 98.80 and 54.02 in 1906-07
and 99.49 and 93.62 in 1905-06.
Inspection Work.
Statement No. V.
15. Lieutenant-Colonel C. J. Bamber, I.M.S., inspected 171 primary vac-
cinations and 37 re-vaccinations during the short portion
of the season of 1907-08 in which he held charge of the
appointment and found all successful.
I inspected 2,387 primary vaccinations and 1,037 re-vaccinations while
Deputy Sanitary Commissioner and 474 primary vaccinations while officiating as
Sanitary Commissioner. Of the primary vaccinations 99.02 per cent. were
successful and 61.72 of the re-vaccinations.
Major Perry inspected 5,388 primary and 407 re-vaccinations with a
percentage of success of 99.57 in the former and 99.20 in the latter.
The Civil Surgeons inspected 66,870 primary and 9,576 re-vaccinations
with a percentage of success of 97.82 in the former and 76.61 in the latter.
Inspections by the Divisional Inspectors of Vaccination amounted to 134,129
primary—and 10,041 re-vaccinations with a percentage of success respectively
of 98.44 and 55.84 ; Superintendents of Vaccination inspected 405,137 primary
— and 61,423 re-vaccinations, of the former they found 97.58 per cent. success-
ful and of the latter 73.08.
Vaccination in the large
Native States.
16. In the large Native States which employ their own vaccinators, the
total operations performed during 1907-08 amounted to
104,322, showing an increase of 2,339 over the figures for
1906-07. Of these operations, 80,743 were primary and 23,579 re-vaccinations.
There was an increase of 3,786 in primary vaccinations and a decrease of 1,447
in re-vaccinations. The operations during 1906-07 numbered 101,983, of which
76,957 were primary and 25,026 re-vaccinations. In the Patiala State, which
has the largest population, there is an increase in 1907-08, in the case of primary
operations, of 602 over the figures for 1906-07 and a decrease of 2,377 in
re-vaccinations. This decrease is mainly accounted for by the fact that
plague and malaria have been very prevalent in this State during the
vaccination season. The percentage of success amounted to 99.21 in primary—
and 78.44 in re-vaccinations as against 98.99 and 77.75 in 1906-07.
In the Bahawalpur State the total number of operations performed in
1907-08 amounted to 19,987, showing an increase of 4,664 over the figures
for the previous year and 1,135 over those for the year 1905-06. There
were 19,665 primary—and 322 re-vaccinations during 1907-08 compared with
15,277 and 18,804 primary—and
46 and 48 re-vaccinations during
the years 1906-07 and 1905-06 respectively, the percentage of success
amounted to 95.50 in primary—and 75.42 in re-vaccination as com-
pared with 95.48 and 90.70 in 1906-07. The total vaccinations performed
in the Kapurthala State amounted to 4,562 of which 3,796 were primary—
and 766 re-vaccinations as compared with 4,400, i.e., 4,303 primary—
and, 97 re-vaccinations in 1906-07. The percentage of success works out to
97.15 in primary—and 60.44 in re-vaccinations in 1907-08 as against
96.70 and 10.31 in 1906-07. In the remaining States the figures are as
follows :—Jind 6,208 operations all primary, as against 7,116 last year ;
Faridkot, 3,756 total operations, i.e., 3,720 primary and 36 re-vaccinations
as against 3,159, i:e., 3,119 primary and 40 re-vaccinations in 1906-07 ;
Nabha, 1,578 operations, all primary, as against 1,968 primary and 11
re-vaccinations in the previous year; the percentage of successful primary
operations were in Jind 97.66, Faridkot 97.21 and Nabha 90.19.
Vaccinations in Munici-
pal Towns. Appendix A.
17. It will be seen, by adding together the figures given in Appen-
dix A, that the number of children under one year of
age available for vaccination amounted to 58,260 in
the year 1907-08, of which 77 per cent. were successfully vaccinated in