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Cost of each success¬
ful
case.
Statement No II.
5. The average cost of each successful vaccination was Re. 0-3-3 as
compared with Re 0-2-10 in the previons year. If, however, the sum of
Rs. 21,974, Which has been credited to Government on account of the cost of
vaccine sold, is deducted from the total expenditure, the average cost works
out to Re. 0-2-9 for the year under report as compared with Re 0-2-4 in the
preceding year. The increase in the cost of a successful case is due partly to
the decrease in the number of successful re-vaccinations and partly for the
reasons given in the preceding paragraph.
Total operations
done by all estab¬
lishments.
Statement No. I.
6. The number of operations performed by all establishments in 1914-15
was 836,639 as compared with 887,469 in the previous year. Of the total
number of operations, 671,261 were primary and 165,378 re-vaccination as
against 671,183 and 216,286 in the year preceding, an increase of 78 oper-
ations in the case of primary and a decrease of 50,908 in that of re-vaccination,
which is manifestly due to the increased demand for the same in the previous
year on account of the great prevalence of small-pox.
House-to-house vac¬
cination.
7. It is reported that this year also the system of house-to-house
vaccination was not appreciated by the people in most districts, and hence no
attempt was made to extend it.
Total number of
operations perform-
erd by the district
staff.
Statement No. I.
8 The total number of operations performed by the district staff in
1914-15 was 782,988 as against 823,995 in the previous year. Of the total
operations, 642,778 were primary and 140,210 re-vaccination as compared
with 642,877 and 1,81,118 respectively in the year preceding. In 14 districts
an excess was recorded in primary vaccination, being most marked in
Lyallpur, where it amounted to 3,746, next to this being Rohtak with an in-
crease of 1,896 ; increases of more than 1,000 were recorded in Amritsar,
Hissar, Montgomery and Ludhiana, and in 8 others the excess varied between
992 in Ferozepore and 42 in Gurgaon. On the other hand, there was a decrease
in 14 districts, those in which it was most marked being Dera Ghazi Khan
4,135, Muzaffargarh 3,842, Multan 3,010, Rawalpindi 1,839, Hoshiarpur 1,351,
Jhang 1,308, Sialkot 839, Jhelum 731 and Ambala 528. In Dera Ghazi
Khan the diminution is due to the fact that a large number of vaccination
operations were performed in the hills beyond the administrative border in the
previous year, and in other districts the decrease is explained as being due
to the smaller number of children available for such operation owing to the
prevalence of plague, malaria and famine when the people left their homes
for other places. The ratio of successful primary vaccination of children
under one year of age to the total number available for such purpose was
73.41 per cent. against 72.67 per cent. in the previous year. In spite of the
causes above mentioned, this is an indication of the district vaccination staff
having worked well during the year under report In regard to re-vaccination,
there was a decrease in all the districts of the Province, except Rohtak, Kangra,
Jullundur, Gurdaspur Attock and Multan, partly due to the epidemic of plague
and partly to the fact that in previous years there was an increased demand for
protection against small-pox which was prevalent in a severe epidemic form.
In some districts the diminution is also attributed to the difference in the popula-
tion of areas selected for re-vaccination. The people on the whole are well
disposed towards primary vaccination, but it is still a matter of difficulty to
persuade parents during years when there is very little small-pox to have their
girls re-vaccinated. The percentage of males to total number of re-vaccinations
was 68.55, while in the case of females it was only 31.45 or less than 50 per cent.
of the former. The percentage of success in primary vaccination was 97.15 as
against 97.41 in the previous year, while in the case of re-vaccination it was 70.78
as compared with 70.36 in the year preceding. The percentage of vaccinations
in which results were not known to total number in 1914-15 was 4.34 in the
case of primary vaccination and 18.48 in that of re-vaccination as compared
with 3.84 and 17.90, respectively, in the previous year.
Ratio of persons suc¬
cessfully vaccinated
per 1,000 of popula-
tion.
Statement No. I.
9. The number of persons successfully vaccinated by the district staff
was 34.98 per mille of population as against 36 45 in the previous year.