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an increase of 0.69 in the rate of successful primary vaccinations and no less than
10.21 in that of successful re-vaccinations, as compared with the preceding year.
There was a larger percentage of successful re-vaccinations in the cantonments
of Siálkot and Mian Mir.
Dispensary Staff. State-
ment No. III.
14. The total number of primary vaccinations performed at the dis-
pensaries was 281 in 1904-05 and 19 and 110 in the
previous two years, and the number of re-vaccinations
28,8 and 96, respectively. The percentage of successful primaryo perations in
1904-05 was 95.73 and of successful re-vaccinations 46.43. The reasons for
the small number of operations performed by the Dispensary Staff were stated in
paragraph 8 of the Vaccination Report for 1899-1900. I think it is unnecessary
to give a separate statement for such an insignificant amount of work.
Inspection Work, State-
ment No. V.
15. During the year 1904-05 I inspected 1,865 primary vaccinations
and 1,140 re-vaccinations, and found 99.36 per cent. of
primary cases and 87.63 of re-vaccinations successful. The
Deputy Sanitary Commissioner verified 6,119 primary operations and 547 re-
vaccinations, of which 98.27 and 68.01 per cent. were found successful. Details
of the work done by other Inspecting Officers are given in Statement No. V
attached to this Report. It will be seen that the Civil Surgeons inspected about
seven per cent. and the Superintendents of Vaccination nearly seventy per cent. of
the total primary cases vaccinated, or about as large a number as in the
preceding two years, the re-vaccinations inspected by the Superintendents
being sixty per cent., or about eight per cent. greater. As there was an
increase in the number of Divisional Inspectors, the amount of inspection
work done by them was larger. The Civil Surgeons found 98.69 per cent
of the primary cases and 74.06 of re-vaccinations successful, the Superin-
tendents of Vaccination 98.45 and 77.07, and the Divisional Inspectors 97.66
and 65.42, as against 99.17 and 81.05 reported by the vaccinators.
Vaccination in large Na-
tive States.
16. The large Native States maintain their own establishments. Their
vaccination work is noticed in the Vaccination Reports
year by year, but not included in the returns. The state-
ments received for 1904-05 show that in the .Patiálá State the vaccination
work, which is under the supervision of Major C. H. James, I. M. S., was very
satisfactory during the year, the total operations amounted to 79,482, an increase
of 28,763 on the previous year, which was, however, one of the lowest on record.
The increase is partly accounted for by the use of glycerinated vaccine supplied
by the Provincial Animal Lymph Depôt, which enables work to be carried on
much more rapidly and with less trouble. Of the total number, 48,490 were
primary vaccinations and 30,992 re-vaccinations. The percentage of success
reported by the vaccinators was 99.34 in primary cases and 79.55 in re-vaccina-
tions. In Baháwalpur, the next largest State, there was a total of 20,065
operations, showing an increase of 2,665 over the number reported in the
preceding year. Almost all the cases were primary operations. The per-
centage of successful primary vaccinations was reported to be 95.08. In the
Kapurthala State, a total of 4,833 operations was performed, including only
six re-vaccinations, and 906 less than in the previous year. In the Farídkot
State the number of total vaccinations was 5,856, a decrease of 458 compared
with last year. The primary operations were 5,488 and re-vaccinations 368.
In the Jínd State there were 6,697, all primary cases, being 1,945 in excess of
the number vaccinated last year. The percentage of successful primary vacci-
nations reported in the Kapurthala State was 96.81, in Farídkot 98.42 and in
Jínd 97.76.
Vaccination
work in
municipal towns
Appen-
dix A.
17. The vaccination work in municipal towns is shown in Appendix A
to this Report, By adding up the figures in columns 4
and 5 of the statement, it will'be seen that, of the total
number of children under one year of age available for vac-
cination in 1904-05, no less than forty per cent. remained unprotected against
small-pox in towns in which vaccination is optional, and twenty-seven per cent. in
those in which the Vaccination Act is in force. Vaccination is generally better
attended to in the case of towns in which it is compulsory ; but even in these
there is evidently much room for improvement, particularly in large cities
like Amritsar, Delhi, Multán, Jullundur and Ambala, and I see no reason