ORDERS OF GOVERNMENT.

                              No. 536/XVI—98 OF 1911.

                                       RESOLUTION.

                            SANITATION DEPARTMENT.

                      Dated Naini Tal, the 29th August 1911.

READ—

              The triennial report on vaccination in the United Provinces for the years 1908-9, 1909-10
                     and 1910-11.

OBSERVATIONS.—The number of vaccinations performed during
the period under review shows a considerable decrease as compared
with the total of the previous triennium. This will appear clearly
from the annexed table:—

This decrease is not numerical only. Were this so it might be
possible to explain it by the severe epidemic of malaria which occurred
in the autumn of 1908, and continued to exercise an influence on the
birth-rate and the health of the population throughout 1909. But there
has also been a decrease of vaccination relatively to the number of
births as is shown by the statement below :—

Percentage of successful primary vaccinations in proportion to births.

Some part of the decrease is due, as the Sanitary Commissioner notes,
to the fall in the number of re-vaccinations, attributable to the absence