3
The largest decrease, rather more than 4,000 occurred in Gujranwala and
was more than 3,000 in Shahpur.
District Staff, percentage
of success.
Annual Form No I.
9. The percentage of success in primary vaccinations performed by the
district staff during 1907-08 was 99.09 as against 99.39 in
1906-07 and 99.25 in 1905-06. The percentage of success
in re-vaccinations was 76.29 in 1907-08 as against 79.62 in
1906-07 and 83.78 in 1905-06. The percentage of vaccinations in which results
were not known to total number in 1907-08 was, as usual, much less in the case
of primary vaccinations, being 2.33 as against 14.92 in re-vaccinations. The
corresponding figures for the previous two years are 2.40 and 15.17 in 1906-07
and 2.27 and 14.64 in 1905-06.
Ratio of persons success-
fully vaccinated per 1,000 of
population.
Statement No. I.
10. The number of persons successfully vaccinated by the district staff
during the year 1907-08 was at the rate of 28.9 per 1,000
of population, compared with 29.08 in 1906-07 and 31.98
in 1905-06. The corresponding rate during the triennial
period ending 1907-08 was 29.99 as against 29.2 for the
preceding period.
Special Staff. Total oper-
ations.
Statement No. I and
Appendix to Statement
No I.
11. Special Staff.—The total number of operations performed by the
special staff during the triennial period amounted to 177,750,
of which 149,096 were primary and 28,654 re-vaccinations
compared with 130,922 namely, 118,251 primary vaccinations
and 12,671 re-vaccinations during the preceding period.
This amounts to a total increase of 46,828 operations, of which 30,845 were
primary and 15,983 re-vaccinations During the first year of the triennial period,
the operations performed were small compared with the work done in the following
two years. During 1905-06 the total number of vaccination operations performed
by the special staff was 47,125, of which 44,120 were primary and 3,005 re-vacci-
nation. The corresponding figures for 1906-07 were 69,305 total vaccinations,
56,057 primary and 13,243 re-vaccinations and for 1907-08 61,325, i.e , 48,919
primary and 12,406 re-vaccinations.
The smaller number of operations
performed during 1907-08 than in the previous year is attributable partly to
the special staff having been employed longer in the Simla Hill States, where the
number of infants available for vaccination is smaller than in the plains ; partly
also to interruption of regular work consequent upon the deputation of individual
vaccinators to deal with outbreaks of small-pox. The chief cause of the decrease
was, however, the employment of the vaccinators at the Punjab Vaccine Institute
in order to meet the increasing demand for preserved vaccine.
Percentage of success.
Statement No. I and
Appendix to Statement No. I.
12. The percentage of success of operations performed by the special
staff was 98.62 of primary vaccination and 73.28 of re-vac-
cinations compared with 97.00 and 67.03, respectively during
the previous triennial period, an improvoment of 1.62 per
cent. in the case of primary and of 6.25 per cent. in that of re-vaccinations. The
corresponding figures for each year of the period are as follows :—1905-06—
98.54 and 76.75; 1906-07—98.94 and 71.16, and 1907-08—98.31 and 74.6.
These variations are not considerable enough to require comment.
Cantonment Staff.
Annual Form No. I and
its Appendix.
13. Cantonment Staff.—In the cantonments which entertain their own
vaccinators, the total number of primary operations per-
formed in 1907-08 amounted to 4,185 and of re-vaccinations
to 4,352, compared with 3,949 primary and 3,262 re-
vaccinations in 1906-07, and 5,043 primary and 4,690 re-vaccinations in 1905-06.
The increase in the total number of operations during the triennial period ending
1907-08 over the figures for the preceding period amounts to 4,869, of which
808 were in primary and 4,061 in re-vaccinations. The percentage of success
in primary vaccinations was 99.21 and in re-vaccinations 69.39 in 1907-08, and
98.61 and 72.22 in 1906-07 and 97.96 and 77.76 in 1905-06, respectively. The
percentage of unknown cases to total cases was 3.35 in primary operations and
12.55 in re-vaccinations in 1907-08, compared with 1.87 and 9.96 in 1906-07
and 2.86 and 6.44 in 1905-06. The returns for the cantonments of Ambala,
Rawalpindi, Lahore and Ferozepore show the largest number of operations
performed during 1907-08. The figures are as follows :—Ambala 1,864,
Rawalpindi 1,772, Lahore 1,597 and Ferozepore 1,329.