Annual Report on the working of the Vaccination Department in
     the North-West Frontier Province for the year 1912-13.

     REVIEW BY THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER.

ONE new appointment of vaccinator in the Malakand Agency was
sanctioned during the year bringing the total staff employed up to 2
Divisional Inspectors, 6 Superintendents and 37 Vaccinators. The increase
in the work done under every heading in every district is a matter for
congratulation. The steady increase in the numbers of successful primary
vaccinations performed in the settled districts on children under one year of
age and between one and six years of age was well maintained.

2.    The vaccination work done in the trans-border Agencies calls for no
special remark. The total number of persons vaccinated is less than that of
the previous year, but this is accounted for by the absence of any report from
the Amb State, where 2,000 persons were vaccinated in 1911-12.

3.    It is satisfactory to note that the cost per successful case fell to
1 anna 8 pies, the lowest figure which has yet been reached.

4.    Once more the number of vaccinations done in Peshawar City on
children under one year of age considerably exceeded the number of births
registered during the year, a remark which applies in a lesser degree to some of
the smaller towns in the Province. This affords yet another reason for insist-
ing on a more careful supervision of the registration of births, to which atten-
tion has been drawn in the Annual Report on the Sanitation of the Province
for 1912-13.

N.-W. F. P. Govt. Press, Peshawar.—217 S. to C, C.—21-6-13—174.