Notes on Vaccination in the United Provinces for the year 1912-13.

Constitution and strength
of the department.
(Statement II.)

DURING the year under review two additional Deputy Sanitary
Commissioners were appointed in these provinces,
which were consequently subdivided into four ranges,
as shown in the statements appended to these notes.
The pay of the 3rd and 2nd grade assistant superintendents of vaccination
and of vaccinators was revised with effect from 1st April 1912. The pay of
first grade assistant superintendents of vaccination, revised in 1893, remained
unaltered. Under the new scale the monthly pay of 3rd and 2nd grade assistant
superintendents of vaccination was raised from Rs. 18 and Rs. 24 to Rs. 30 and
Rs. 35 respectively ; and that of vaccinators, which formerly varied from Rs. 6 to
Rs. 10 only, was increased to Rs. 8 rising to Rs. 20, the increments corresponding
to the length of service. Concurrently with the introduction of these revised
rates of pay, the extra allowances, which were formerly drawn by assistant
superintendents of vaccination and vaccinators in certain districts, were withdrawn.
Full details of the changes introduced were published in Government Notification
No. 99/XVI—115 of 26th February 1912. This increase in pay has greatly
improved the prospects offered in the department and conduced to the contentment
of the members of the staff.

The number of assistant superintendents of vaccination employed in these
provinces during 1912-13 was the same (49) as in 1911-12 and that of vaccinators
was 922 against 927 in the latter year.

Expenditure on vaccination.
(Statement II.)

2. The total expenditure on vaccination in the year under review, including
the pay of the Deputy Sanitary Commissioners and
their offices, amounted to Rs. 2,24,057 as compared
with Rs. 1,81,792 in the preceding year but,
excluding these charges, the expenditure in 1912-13 amounted to Rs. 1,80,512
against Rs. 1,53,200 during 1911-12. The increase in expenditure is chiefly due
to (1) increase in the number of Deputy Sanitary Commissioners, (2) improvement
in the pay of the vaccination staff, and (3) increased expenditure on the
bovine lymph depôt consequent on the expansion of the use of calf lymph in
place of arm-to-arm lymph, as explained in paragraph 16.

Average cost of each success-
ful case of vaccination.
(Statement II.)

3. The average cost of each successful case of vaccination during the year
under report was one anna and nine pies against one
anna and seven pies in the preceding year. The
improvement in pay of the vaccination staff and
extension of the use of calf lymph in place of arm-
to-arm vaccination referred to in paragraph 2 account for the increase under this
head.

It will be seen in the following table in which the cost of a successful case
of vaccination is compared in the several provinces of India that the lowest cost
of a successful vaccination was in Behar and Orissa with one anna per case and
that the United Provinces stand 4th on the list with an expenditure per case of
1 anna and 9 pies :—