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obstacle to successful vaccination. At a later age, children playing about,
break the vesicles and sore places are apt to follow, especially with the
dust and heat towards the end of the season, in consequence of which the
people get alarmed and disgusted with the proceeding.
Quality by Percentage of
success Col. 11.
5. The percentage of success, 81, is not extremely good, but is fair
and tolerably uniform throughout. There appears to be some misunder-
standing about secondary vaccination, which I take to be revaccination
of a person once successfully done. In that sense the ratio of success here
given, 53 per cent., is too high, as the operation generally fails ; and, if not
an entire failure, the result is in most cases spurious. But except
in the Bharaich district the number of revaccinations was very small.
There a number of Goorka recruits were vaccinated, presumably after
small pox.
Caste.
6. The ratio of vaccination relative to the numbers of the several
creeds in the population is nearly double among Mahomedans compared
with Hindus. Mahomedans are less superstitious but at the same time less
amenable to persuasion than Hindus; and vaccination makes very poor
progress in the Mahomedan city of Lucknow, where after five seasons
the work should have made an impression which is not yet apparent.
Statement No.II., month-
-y rates of progress.
7. The numbers vaccinated gradually increased each month to a
maximum in January and February. There is generally some delay
caused in the progress of work, until a free supply of the material has been
cultivated. More could be done if the season were to commence on the
1st instead of 15th October.
Ratios of success by
months.
The percentage of successful results, which is one test of the quality
of the vaccination, was nearly equal from November to February, but
greatest in the last named month.
Statement No. III. Muni-
cipal vaccination.
8. The extent to which the value of vaccination is practically appre-
ciated by the better-educated and more liberal-minded of the people may
be judged by the amount of contributions, from municipal or private
sources, towards keeping up the staff of Vaccinators. No Vaccinators
are thus supported in Oudh. The. number (25) entered in last year's state-
ment as paid for from other sources were really paid for by the State,
only from Local as distinguished from Provincial funds. They were not
municipal Vaccinators or paid for by native landowners, and in the season
under review, were transferred to the regular establishment.
Statement No IV. cost of
each successful case, Col. 9.
9. In respect of cost, relative to the quantity of vaccination done,
the season under review bears comparison unfavorably with the two imme-
diately preceding, for reasons already explained. With the same esta-
blishment, the number of operations recorded being only half, the cost of
each of course becomes double. Each operation successfully performed
cost a little more than 8 annas compared with rather less than 4 in the pre-
ceding season.
Establishment.
10. In the prospect that vaccination may, with the progress of
education and the decay of superstition, advance on its own merits, much
depends on a careful selection of the establishment by whom work of so