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and 112. The percentage of success in the case of primary operations during
1916-17 was 97.07 and revaccination 87.37 as against 99.73 and 73.28 in
1915-16 and 97.07 and 83.96 in 1914-15.
Inspection work.—Statement No. V.
16. While inspecting Amritsar city I saw some 25 children who were
successfully vaccinated. Major W. H. C.
Forster, I.M.S., Deputy Sanitary Commissioner,
inspected 2,024 primary and 948 revaccinations with a percentage of success
of 92.49 in the former and 77.22 in the latter. He inspected 50 villages in
Rampur Bashahr, Kumharsain, Keonthal and Koti Kiar States in Simla
District, 7 in Lahaul country of Kangra District, 4 in Rupi State and 2 in
Mandi State, making a total of 106 towns and villages. Dr. K. A. Rahman,
Additional Deputy Sanitary Commissioner, inspected vaccination in 22
municipal towns and 306 smaller towns and villages of Amritsar, Multan,
Jhang, Dera Ghazi Khan, Hissar, Gurgaon and Gujrat Districts. Altogether
8,793 children were inspected of which 8,215 were primary and 578 revacci¬
nation, giving a success percentage of 88.98 and 53.98 respectively.
Civil Surgeons inspected 49,553 primary and 10,903 revaccinations,
which had a percentage of success of 98.74 in the former and 64.12 in the latter.
Inspections by the Divisional Inspectors of Vaccination amounted to 98,109
primary and 13,025 revaccinations with a percentage of success respectively
of 92.76 and 49.37 ; Superintendents of Vaccination inspected 465,593 primary
and 107,079 revaccinations; of the former they found 94.69 per cent. suc-
cessful and of the latter 68.01.
It will be observed that the percentage of primary cases found success-
ful to the total number of operations inspected was lower when compared with
last year except in the case of inspections by Civil Surgeons and in regard
to revaccination by the Deputy Sanitary Commissioner. The results in the
case of primary vaccinations are not all that could be desired, but this was
chiefly due to the excessive action of the chloroform process in the first issue
of vaccine from the Vaccine Institute producing unsatisfactory results in
spite of the fact that the preliminary tests before issue gave a cent. per
cent. success rate.
As it had been noticed in recent years that results at the commence-
ment of the season were poor due to the deterioration of vaccine on account
of heat, vaccination operations were not started in the plains until the 1st of
November. This arrangement proved satisfactory: it will be adhered to in
future.
Vaccination in large Native States.
17. In the large Native States which employ their own vaccinators, the
total operations performed during
1916-17
amounted to 113,464, showing a decrease of 203
when compared with the figures for last year. Of these operations 84,668 were
primary and 28,796 revaccination as against 84,665 and 29,002 in the pre-
vious year. In the Patiala State, which has the largest population, there is
a slight decrease of 509 in the case of primary and 393 in revaccination
as compared with the figures for 1915-16. The percentage of success amounted
to 98.35 in primary and 77.35 in revaccination as against 98.45 and 77.15 in
1915-16. In the Bahawalpur State the total number of operations performed
in 1916-17 amounted to 14,612, showing an increase of 365 over the figures
for the previous year and 340 over those for the year 1914-15. There were
14,480 primary and 132 revaccinations during 1916-17 compared with 14,127
and 14,169 primary and 120 and 103 revaccinations during the year 1915-16
and 1914-15 respectively, the percentage of success amounted to 97.23 in
primary and 86.24 in revaccination as compared with 96.67 and 75.47 in
1915-16. The total vaccinations performed in the Kapurthala State amounted
to 5,004 of which 4,678 were primary and 326 revaccination as compared with
4,528, i.e., 4,466 primary and 62 revaccination in 1915-16. The percentage
of success works out at 99.40 in primary and 43.25 in revaccination in 1916-17
as against 99.57 and 62.90 in 1915-16. In the remaining States the figures
are as follows :—
Faridkot
...
Jind
...
Nabha
...
1915-16.
Primary.
5,503
10,221
283
Revaccination.
132
...
...
1916-17.
Primary.
5,198
10,419
337
Revaccination.
43
...
...
The percentages of successful primary operations were Faridkot 99.24,
Jind 97.35 and Nabha 63.73.