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Movements
regarding
vaccination.
9. An active anti-vaccination propaganda was carried on in parts of Sind
by public speeches, and by writings in a section of
the Press. In Hyderabad a society styling itself the
Anti-Vaccination League came into being. The
agents of the movement have on some occasions appeared in villages to hamper
the vaccinator in his work and have for the time influenced parents to withhold
their children from vaccination and for inspection of results.
Some increase in opposition to this measure is also reported from other
districts. Nevertheless vaccination has on the whole been fairly satisfactory
throughout the year.
In Gujerat special efforts in forwarding this disease and death preventing
measure were applied in Municipal Towns and other important centres.
Vaccination of pilgrims.
10. The extra work of vaccination of overseas pilgrims was performed by
the Superintendent of Vaccination, Karachi Town, and
3,440 pilgrims were re-vaccinated before proceeding to
the Hadjaz. The cost amounted to Rs. 736-14-9.
Vaccine
Institute,
Belgaum.
11. The alteration of the old cold room into an additional Laboratory for
carrying on the chloroform process was completed.
Storage batteries have been installed and electric
lights provided in the main building. The work of
fitting up road lights is in progress and is expected to be completed at an early
date. The question of supplying electric light to the residential quarters of the
staff in still under consideration.
The fencing in of the new grazing ground and constructing a wooden
bridge over the nullah were completed by the Military Department in February
1922 and taken over on 10th March 1922.
The erection of two sheds (one near the cattle dip, for examining calves on
arrival and another near the inoculated calves' stable, to house the calves before
they are sent out to the contractors) was completed by the Public Works
Department on 31st March 1922.
Government have been pleased to sanction rent free occupation of the
residential quarters of the staff. Trellis work in front of the Laboratory
Assistants' quarters has also been completed this year.
The drainage system gave no trouble. Pumping from the new well was
started on 23rd May 1921.
Cold storage has effected a marked improvement in the working of the
Institute generally and the lymph produced was excellent in all particulars.
The detailed working of the installation was on the whole satisfactory but during
the month of March the temperature could not be kept below 20° Fahr. The
causes—a very slight technical defect in the leather of the piston and a defect
in the ingredient used in making the brine—were easily remedied when
detected.
The quality of vesiculation on the calves was satisfactory. The passage
of lymph strains through rabits maintained the potency of seed lymph at high
level. Seed lymphs were supplied to the Madras, Hyderabad (Deccan) and
Bangalore Institutes.
1,136,320 doses of lymph were issued during the year shewing a decrease
of 226,645 as compared with last year. The decrease in the issue of doses this
year was due to the much smaller demand from Military Medical officers.
The gross expenditure of the Institute for the year amounted to
Rs. 74,383-7-6 against Rs. 59,755 or an increase of Rs. 14,628 over the last
year. The net expenditure after deducting sale-proceeds was Rs. 54,542-2-11
against Rs. 26,462 in the previous year.
The increase in expenditure is due to various causes such as revision of
pay and increased rate of conveyance allowance to the staff, dearness of grass
and the want of grazing ground (now remedied), abnormally high price of
scientific instruments, etc., ordered from England, some new pattern store
boxes stocked at the Institute and the increased rate of hire per calf.