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TABLE No. 5.— Comparing the cost of the Vaccination Department for three years.
Head of Expenditure.
Pay of establishment ...
Travelling allowance ...
Contingencies... ...
Total ...
1894-95.
Rs.
16,972
61
544
17,577
1895-96.
Rs.
16,918
83
723
17,724
1896-97.
Rs.
17,070
138
365
17,573
Explanation of difference.
Rs. 90, arrears of sick leave allowance,
paid to Head Vaccinator Rawaji Govind.
Increase due to travelling allowance of
Superintendent with Sanitary Commis-
sioner on monsoon tour.
The decrease in expenditure, viz., Rs.
358, due to reduction under all heads
of contingencies as shown below :—
Vaccination instruments ...
Postal charges ... ...
Lanoline paste
...
...
Stationery and other miscel-
laneous charges... ...
Rs.
134
51
134
39
Statement No. III.
13. This statement showing the vaccination performed at dispen-
saries during the year is blank for the pro-
vince.
Dispensary officers cannot keep up a supply of animal lymph, and the
work of dispensary towns was transferred to the special vaccination establish-
ment in 1892.
Statement No. IV.
14. This statement shows the vaccination work performed in the Hyderabad
Assigned Districts during the last twelve years,
and calls for no special comment beyond the fact
that the work done in 1896-97 has only been twice exceeded in the past twelve
years.
Statement No. V.
15. This statement shows the general results of inspections. Out of
98,594 vaccine operations, District Superintend-
ents inspected 55,101, or 55.8 per cent., which
is, I consider, satisfactory.
The percentage of cases found successful by Superintendents was 95.2, and
by Sanitary Commissioner out of 1,578 children seen, 97; whilst the percentage
of success reported by the vaccinators was 96.8. In Home Department letter
No. 544, dated 12th December 1896, it is suggested that this discrepancy in
results may be due to the vaccinators bringing forward only good cases for
verification. This, however, is hardly the explanation, for the vaccinator is not
present at these verifications. The difference in results between Sanitary Com-
missioner's and Superintendent's verifications is more likely due to the difference
in the numbers seen and to the fact that the children found unsuccessful by
Superintendent on his inspection are usually vaccinated secondarily by the
vaccinator with generally successful results. The vaccinator's results are
worked on the total number vaccinated, unknown cases being included as
unsuccessful, and must therefore be lower than the results obtained by inspect-
ing officers, whose results are worked on the number of cases verified.
The cases seen by Sanitary Commissioner were those operated on in the
villages visited during the course of his cold weather tour, neither the District
Superintendent nor the circle vaccinator being as a rule present.
When inspecting municipalities, I do not have all the vaccinated children
collected for verification in order not to trouble the people needlessly, for the
vaccinator has to see the children twice ; they are again collected for the Super-
intendent's inspection, and perhaps, again, for the Civil Surgeon's, and these
constant inspections are not likely to make the operation more popular. I gauge
the vaccination work of municipalities by seeing a few of the most recent
operations in order to judge of the quality of the lymph, and when perambulat-
ing the town for inspection, I catch and examine the small children I meet
in the streets or in the schools.