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owing to the poor financial condition of the District Board; (3) decrease of
one in the Jullundur cantonment where the appointment remained vacant and
the operations were performed by a vaccinator from the District Staff in
addition to his own work ; (4) decrease of one vaccinator in the Lahore district
on account of transfer of the Sharakpur tahsil to the Gujranwala district;
(5) the increase of 3 vaccinators in Gujranwala district for work in its new
tahsil.
The cost of the department. Statement No. II.
4. The aggregate cost of the Department amounted to Rs. 1,21,076 as
against Rs. 1,20,509 in the previous
year. The increase of Rs. 567 was
entirely due to the higher rate of pay drawn by Major E. L. Perry, I.M.S.,
Deputy Sanitary Commissioner, Punjab, on confirmation in his appointment
on the 12th July 1910. If the expenditure of the Special Vaccination Staff
be excluded from the total cost of the department there would be a decrease of
Rs. 1,552 owing to a diminution in the pay of establishment.
The total cost of the department during the triennial period was
Rs. 3,56,346 as compared with Rs. 3,01,419 in the previous period showing an
increase of Rs. 54,927 under the sub-heads of pay of the Deputy Sanitary Com-
missioner, Superintendent of Punjab Vaccine Institute and clerical establishment
and District Vaccination Staff who have been promoted in accordance with the
new time scale lately introduced, and higher expenses under the sub-head of
contingencies on account of the cost of Vaccine Institute and price of vaccine
supplied to local bodies on payment from the Punjab Vaccine Institute since
1908-09.
Cost per successful case. Statement No. II.
5. The average cost of each successful vaccination worked out in
1910-11 to two annas and ten pies
compared with three annas and three
pies in 1909-10 and three annas and one pie in 1908-09.
If the cost of the vaccine sold which amounted to Rs. 11,742, and which
has been credited to Government be deducted from the expenditure, the
average cost would be two annas and seven pies as against two annas and
eleven pies in 1909-10 and two annas and nine pies in 1908-09. The average
for the triennial period 1908-11 excluding the cost of lymph refunded into the
treasury was two annas and nine pies.
Total operations done by all establisment State-
ment No. I.
6. The total number of operations performed by all establishments
during the triennial period 1908—11 was
2,104,509 against 2,161,641 in 1905-08,
a decrease of 57,132. The total number
of persons vaccinated during the triennial period under review amounted
to 2,093,741 compared with 2,161,641 as shown in the returns for the previous
triennial period, but the corresponding figures are not available, as in accord-
ance with the order of Government secondary operations are since 1909-10 no
longer included in the total of persons vaccinated. Of the total operations
1,688,131 were primary and 416,378 re-vaccinations against 1,828,674 and
332,967, respectively.
The figures for 1910-11 were 765,075 compared with 670,536 for 1909-10
and 668,898 for 1908-09.
There were 636,697 primary and 128,378 re-vaccinations performed in
1910-11 as compared with 528,347 and 142,189, respectively, in the previous
year.
The decrease in the first two years was, as already reported, manifestly
due to the malaria in 1908 and to plague in recent years. It is, however,
satisfactory to note that in 1910-11 there was an increase of 113,364 primary
operations performed by the District Staff over those in the preceding year.