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Report on Re-vaccination by the Deputy Surgeon General, Puna
Division of the Army.
In conformity to the instructions contained in your letter No. 3198, dated the
12th September 1872, monthly returns of revaccination from 6 jails and 4 native
regiments have been received, and the results are shown in a tabulated statement
appended to this report.
The experiments undertaken embrace a period of three months, and the total
number of persons operated on is 249. Of these 76 were adults, bearing distinct
traces of previous vaccination and 173 who showed equally traces of small-pox.
Of the 76 persons operated on who had been previously vaccinated 17 or 22
per cent. proved successful. 52 or 67 per cent. were unsuccessful and in 7 the
results are unknown.
The results obtained from persons who had had small-pox were still more un-
successful. Of the 173 vaccinated, only 41 or 23 per cent. were successful cases
and 130 or 75 per cent. unsuccessful, leaving 2 in whom the results could not be
ascertained as they left the jail very shortly after vaccination.
The summary then of these experiments is as follows :—Of the 249 operations
performed (omitting the cases unknown) vaccination proved successful in only 58
persons, and unsuccessful in 182, giving a percentage of 23.1 in the former to 75.8
in the latter. The result now obtained will be found, I think, more in accordance
with ordinary belief and with the experience of all who have largely practised vac-
cination in this country.
Re-vaccination.
Record of the results of experiments made agreeably to directions conveyed
in letter No. 3198, dated 12th September 1872, from the Secretary to the Surgeon
General, Indian Medical Department :—
|
Number of persons |
Number or name of |
Of persons previously |
Of persons who have |
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|
Number of |
Result. |
Number of |
Result. |
Remarks. |
||||||
|
Successful. |
Unsuccessful. |
Unknown. |
Successful. |
Unsuccessful. |
Unknown. |
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|
37 |
Kolhàpur Jail ........... |
12 |
5 |
... |
7 |
25 |
17 |
8 |
... |
|
|
44 |
Puna City do............ |
8 |
1 |
7 |
... |
36 |
6 |
30 |
... |
|
|
46 |
Yerowdà do............. |
9 |
... |
9 |
... |
37 |
... |
37 |
... |
|
|
23 |
Ahmednagur do.......... |
2 |
... |
2 |
... |
26 |
3 |
23 |
... |
|
|
2 |
pur do .......... |
1 |
... |
1 |
... |
1 |
... |
1 |
... |
|
|
14 |
.k Civil do........ |
2 |
... |
2 |
... |
12 |
6 |
4 |
2 |
|
|
11 |
Regt. 1st Gr., N. I. ...... |
8 |
... |
8 |
... |
3 |
... |
3 |
... |
|
|
19 |
„ 2nd „ N. I....... |
14 |
5 |
9 |
... |
5 |
2 |
3 |
... |
|
|
34 |
„ 13th N. I........ |
16 |
5 |
11 |
... |
18 |
6 |
12 |
... |
|
|
14 |
Sappers and Miners .... |
4 |
1 |
3 |
... |
10 |
1 |
9 |
... |
|
|
249 |
76 |
17 |
52 |
7 |
173 |
41 |
130 |
2 |
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G. G.MAITLAND,
Deputy Surgeon General.
31st March 1873.