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rotation to the Native States and other localities mentioned in Appendix
to Statement I appended to this report. Owing to the prevalence of small-
pox the Vaccinators were, however, occasionally employed independently to
check the spread of the disease.
Percentage of successful cases.
12. The percentage of success of operations performed by the special
staff was 90.67 in the case of primary
vaccination and 63.37 in that of re-
vaccination as against 94.39 and 67.97, respectively, in the preceding year ;
the reasons for the decline in the percentage of success as given in para-
graph 18 are also applicable to the work done by the special staff.
Cantonment Staff—Annual Form No. I and its Ap-
pendix.
13. The work done in the cantonments, which entertain their own
Vaccinators, amounted to 4,913 primary
vaccinations and 5,839 re-vaccinations,
an increase of 1,536 in the case of the
former and of 3,962 in the latter over the corresponding figures for last year.
The largest number of primary vaccinations (1,550) was performed in the
cantonment of Ambala and that of re-vaccination in the cantonments of
Lahore and Sialkot where it amounted to 2,627 and 1,145, respectively.
The percentage of success was 97.83 in the case of primary vacci-
nations and 71.36 in that of re-vaccinations as against 99.01 and 54.97, res-
pectively, in the previous year and the ratio per cent. of unknown cases to
total cases in the case of primary was 1.53 and in re-vaccination 4.37 as com-
pared with 1.57 and 15.77 in 1910-11.
Dispensary staff.—Statement No. III.
14. As compared with last year there was an increase of 619 primary
vaccinations and 170 re-vaccinations
performed at dispensaries with a per-
centage of success in primary of 95.13 and re-vaccinations 61.62 as against
98.68 and 51.22 in 1910-11.
Inspection work—Statement No. V.
15. I inspected vaccination in. the districts of Ambala, Simla, Feroze-
pore, Lahore, Gujranwala,
Sialkot,
Jhelum and Rawalpindi. The total
number of primary operations inspected was 1,860 yielding a ratio of success
of 77.74 per cent. Only 12 re-vaccinations were examined and all these were
found successful.
The Deputy Sanitary Commissioner, Punjab, inspected 660 primary
operations and 108 re-vaccinations in which he found a ratio of success in the
former of 92.27 and in the latter of 69.44 per cent.
Civil Surgeons made 61,536 inspections of primary vaccination and
13,879 of re vaccination ; Divisional Inspectors 104,428 and 6,877 and
Superintendents of Vaccination 472,123 and 107,200, respectively.
The percentages of success verified by Civil Surgeons were 91.10 in
primary and 73.82 re-vaccination as compared with 90.69 and 71.05 and
91.03 and 64.51 found by Divisional Inspectors and Superintendents res-
pectively. The rates of success reported by Vaccinators were 95.04 in primary
and 71.97 in re-vaccination as against 97.20 and 73.31 in the year preceding
Vaccination in large Native States.
16. The number of primary vaccinations and re-vaccinations performed
in 1911-12 in the Native States which
employ their own Vaccinators was as
follows :—
Patiala 53,489 and 26,967, Bahawalpur 14,885 and 357, Kapurthala
4,528 and 129, Faridkot 5,067 and 17. In Jind 8,419 and in Nabha only 680
primary vaccinations were performed and in neither of these States were
any re-vaccinations recorded. There was an increase in the total number of
persons vaccinated in all the States as compared with the work for last year
except in Nabha. The percentage of successful primary vaccination was
in Patiala 98.24, in Bahawalpur 94.74, in Kapurthala 99.05, in Faridkot 98.15,
in Jind 93.45 and in Nabha 86.26. In the case of re-vaccination the per-
centage of success varied between 67.87 in Bahawalpur and 80.62 in Kapur-
thala. In Patiala where the largest number of re-vaccinations were performed
the rate was 79.58 per cent.
Vaccination work in municipal towns.
17. In the towns in which the Vaccination Act is in force 86 per cent.
of the total number of children under
one year of age available for operation
in 1911-12 were successfully vaccinated as compared with 64 per cent. in those
towns in which it was not in force, the corresponding rates for the previous