VITAL STATISTICS IN NATIVE STATES.
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(4) A compound wall was added to the Slaughter House in Sripura.
(5) Owing to continuous heavy rainfall 24 houses in the City fell in.
They were demolished and reconstructed.
(6) All wells and Baoris filled with water.
42. Kotah City shows evidence of continuous sanitary improvements.
VACCINATION.
STATEMENT I.
43. The total number of persons vaccinated in Ajmer-Merwara including
Nasirabad fell from 19,429 in 1916-1917 to 13,694 in 1917-1918. There was
also a decline in the average number of successful primary operations, the
average number of persons vaccinated by each Vaccinator, and in the
average number of persons successfully vaccinated per 1,000 of population,
which were 16,112, 1,295, and 35.14 respectively in the preceding year.
The total number of re-vaccinations in 1917-1918 was 437 against 2,011 in
1916-1917 and that of successful re-vaccinations 362, as compared with 1,507
in the previous year. The decrease under all heads was due chiefly to the
severe epidemics of Plague and Malaria in this Division.
44. The number of vaccinators was 15, the same as in the previous year :
and one Native Superintendent.
45. The Civil Surgeon, Ajmer inspected 98 vaccinated children against
1,257 in 1916-1917, all of whom were found successful. The Superintendent
of Vaccination at Nasirabad examined 680 children, all of whom were found
successful.
46. The Native Superintendent inspected 453 villages against 205 in 1916"
1917 ; and examined 5,025 vaccination operations, as compared with 3,920 in
the previous year.
47. Vaccination in Ajmer-Merwara is not satisfactory ; many infants
remain unvaccinated, the parents concealing or refusing to produce them.
General operations in Native States.
48. The Vaccination Returns from the Native States show a falling-off
under all heads due to the severe epidemic
of Plague and Malaria throughout Raj¬
putana during the season. The total number of primary vaccinations in Native
States was 190,290 of which 184,179 were successful, against 244,080 primary
and 239,196 successful operations in the preceding year. Re-vaccination also
fell from 4,249 in 1916-1917 to 228 in the year under report.
49. There were 163 vaccinators, the same as in the previous year, 1 less in
Jaisalmer and Bharatpur, respectively, and one additional vaccinator in
Bikaner and Karauli. As vaccinations were performed entirely by the Sub¬
Assistant Surgeon attached to the Agency Hospital, Deoli, no vaccinator was
employed in Deoli Cantonment during the season.
50. Western Rajputana States.—The Residency Surgeon reports that an
attempt has been made to re-organise the whole system of vaccination in
Marwar State and to introduce the method of vaccinating from sterile lymph
only. The services of Mr. Ravishanker Vijeyshanker Chhaya were borrowed
from Kathiawar and the new methods started from 1st December, 1917. A
complete scheme for the re-organisation of the work has been submitted to the
State authorities.
51. 17.47 per thousand of the population in the Native States were
successfully vaccinated against 22.74 in 1916-1917.
STATEMENT II.
52. The total expenditure on vaccination in Ajmer-Merwara was
R3,181-15-4 against R3,147-4-9 in 1916-
1917.
Expenditure on vaccination in Ajmer -Merwara.
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