Triennial report on vaccination, Bihar and Orissa.

  • Bihar and Orissa (India)
Date:
[1914]
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Credit: Triennial report on vaccination, Bihar and Orissa. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Deputy Sanitary Commissioner reported the percentage of success to be 94'48 in primary operations and 12'85 in re-vaccinations and the Inspectors reported it to be 97 59 in primary operations and 7099 in re¬ vaccinations. The Deputy Sanitary Commissioner’s inspections during the last two years have had to be confined to a large extent to operations in compulsory areas owing to the pressure of other sanitary work. G. Vaccination in compulsory areas. Bengal Act V of 1880 which provides for compulsory vaccination in Municipal towns was extended to the Forbesganj Municipality in the Purnea district and to the Civil Station of Doranda in the Banchi district in 1913 ; and it is now in force throughout the Province except in Sambalpur in which the Central Provinces Municipal Act is in force. Statement VII shows that during the year 1913-14 out of 30,314 children under one year of age available for vaccination 23,578 or 77*70 per cent, were successfully vaccinated. The number of successful vaccinations as compared with the number of children available varies very considerably in different areas. On the one hand, in Patna, Gaya and Darbhanga, three of the most important towns in the Province, only about half the children available appear to have been vaccinated and in the town of Bhagalpur the proportion is as low as one-fifth. On the other hand, in Muzaffarpur, Bettiah and Mongliyr more children were vaccinated than were recorded as being available. In the absence of any information to show the basis on which the calculations have been made it is impossible to criticise these figures to any purpose; but. judging from the absence of small-pox generally in Municipal areas, and from the inspection notes on vaccination which the Deputy Sanitary Commissioners make in their municipal reports, I believe that Municipal vaccination is on the wrhole fairly well performed, though of course there is much room for improvement. In future Health Officers will be responsible for the supervision of vaccination in the towns to which they have been appointed, 7. Cost of the Department. The cost of the Department during the year 1913-14 was Bs. 93,373 of which Bs. 82,-41 was paid from the Provincial funds, Bs. 6,383 from Local funds, Bs. 4,557 from Municipal funds and Bs. 192 by Native States, 8. Vaccination in the Orissa Feudatory States. For many years past, vaccination has been quietly developing in the Feudatory States under the direction and encouragement of the Political Officer, though no mention appears to have been made of the work in any of the previous vaccination reports. The following figures which are taken from the administration report of the Feudatory States of Orissa and Chota Nagpur for the year 1912-13 give some idea of the progress which has been made during the last eight years :— Total number of Total number of vaccinations. re-vacoi nations. 1903-07 ... 1907- 08 ... 1908- 09 ... 1909- 10 ... 1910- 11 ... 1911- 12 ... 1912- 33 ... 1905-06 117,619 165,967 187,150 226,042 269,728 310,962 341,701 387,190 43,498 69,685 97,078 112,911 163,162 179,688 215,438