Report of the Philippine Health Service (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...furnished extensively to the sanitary personnel in order to systematically use it on any person bitten by any stray dog. V. VACCINATION. Table J.--Tabulation showing vaccination work performed in the provinces during the year 1918. Provinces. Albay Ambos Camarines._ Antique Bataan Batanes._ Batangas Bohol Bulacan Cagayan Capiz Cavite Cebu Ilocoa Norte Ilocos Sur Iloilo Isabela Laguna Leyte Mindoro Mountain Province. NuevaEcija Nueva Vizcaya Occidental Negros __ Oriental Negroa Palawan Pampanga Pangasinan Rizal Romblon Samar Sorsogon Tarlac Tayabas Union Zambales Total. Units issued. 90,500 73,660 10,960 52,000 5,000 291,740 15,000 153,800 50,440 8,200 130,400 746,100 141,360 80,770 258,980 25,980 301,800 175,000 46,920 51,980 112,000 12,960 11,000 2,000 8,500 269,910 239,600 353,870 50,780 45,080 56,000 41,920 244,160 72,010 115,450 Total ins-pections. 51,041 57,863 22,015 31,872 2,116 76,692 67,664 72,162 37,920 16,088 72,338 294,288 77,224 64,036 79,308 8,749 211,343 102,513 21,328 16.318 54,470 14,573 43,748 14,948 3.741 208,726 192,617 185,272 9,469 13,776 23,373 33,428 146,704 51,058 46,938 Positives. Four million three hundred eighteen thousand eight hundred thirty units of vaccine virus were furnished throughout the provinces comprising this division with which 3,285,376 persons were vaccinated. Two millon four hundred twenty-five thousand seven hundred twenty-five persons were inspected and 1,533,595 were found positive. From these figures it may be seen that during the year 1918, 47.74 per cent of the total population of the area covered by this report were vaccinated; 63.22 per cent of the people vaccinated were inspected and 25 per cent of those inspected showed positive results, and as many of the persons not inspected might also have resulted p...