No. 1601.

FROM

                        LT.-COL. W. H. C. FORSTER, D.P.H., I.M.S.,

                                                    Director of Public Health, Punjab,

To

                        A. LATIFI ESQ., O.B.E., I.C.S.,

                                        Secretary to Government, Punjab,

                                                            Transferred Departments.

                                                Dated Lahore, the 28th June 1923.

SIR,

I HAVE the honour to forward, for the information of the Punjab
Government (Ministry of Education), the Annual Vaccination Returns for the
year 1922-23. The intertriennial reports briefly noticed the more important
points in the Vaccination Returns for the year 1920-21 and 1921-22, while the
present report deals more fully with the vaccination work performed during
the triennium ending 31st March 1923.

Administration

2. From January 1st 1922 the designation of the Department was
changed from the Sanitary to the Public Health Department, that of the
Sanitary Commissioner to the Director of Public Health and that of the
Deputy Sanitary Commissioners to Assistant Directors of Public Health.

I held charge of the Department throughout the year.

The post of Assistant Director of Public Health, Northern Range, was
held by Major H. Falk, D.P.H., I.M.S., for the first 3 days of the year, i.e., from
1st to 3rd April, when he proceeded on long leave out of India He was reliev-
ed by Lt.-Col. C. A. Gill, D.P.H., I.M.S., who held charge of the post from 9th
April 1922 to 19th January 1923 in addition to his own duties as Chief
Malaria Medical Officer.

Dr. K. A. Rahman relieved Lt.-Col. Gill of the additional charge on
the afternoon of 19th January 1923 and held it for the remainder of the year
in addition to his own duties of Chief Plague Medical Officer.

The charge of the office of Assistant Director of Public Health, Southern
Range, was held by Dr. K. A. Rahman from 1st April 1922 to 159th January
1923 on which date Captain R. C. Malhotra, O.B.E., D.P.H., I.M.S., took over
the post and held it till the end of the year.

The appointment of Superintendent, Punjab Vaccine Institute, was
held by Assistant Surgeon H. C Phillips, I.M.D.

Strength of vacci-
nation establishment.
Statement No. II.

3. The five posts of Divisional Inspectors of Vaccination were finally
abolished during the year under report. The total number of Superintendents
of Vaccination and Vaccinators employed in the Province during the
triennium under review is shown in the table below: —

The increase in the number of appointments of Superintendents of
Vaccination in 1922-23 by one when compared with the previous year is due
to the entertainment of one Superintendent by the Multan Municipality with
effcet from July 1922.