Annual Review on the working of the Vaccination Department

                  of the North-West Frontier Province for the year

                                                1913-14.

                  REVIEW BY THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER.

MAJOR H. G. S. WEBB, the newly appointed Deputy Sanitary Com-
missioner, was placed in charge of the Department during the year, and
compiled this report. For the rest the establishment was the same as in the
previous year.

The total number of vaccinations performed was 164,853, an increase
of 12,113 as compared with the figures for 1912-13. The increase was entirely
in primary operations, secondary operations having fallen off by 8,618. The
figures support the District and Agency reports, which are to the effect that the
people are not hostile to primary vaccination, but regard a repetition as
unnecessary and irksome. That the protection conferred is, however, understood
is shown by an increase in the demand for the Vaccinator's services when
small-pox tends to become epidemic.

It is satisfactory to notice that, in spite of a considerable increase in the
amount of work done, the cost of the Department has remained practically
stationary, and the cost per successful case fell to the low figure of one anna
and seven pies. The statement of work done during the last 14 years shows a
steady increase of vaccination, and last year's figures for successful primary
vaccinations, which up to then constituted a record, have been largely surpassed
in the year under review.

            N.-W.F.P Govt. Press Peshawar—211 S. to C.C.—15-8-14-185.