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ratio which pertains in a combination of the returns from all the districts ; but
if they be taken in detail it will be found that some districts are far in advance
of others in this respect. Thus in the Tháná collectorate the precentage of opera-
tions on subjects under one year is 40.7, and that in subjects over one year
59.3. In the Kolábá collectorate there is an improvement on this ; for here the
percentage under one year is 51.5 while that over one year is 48.5. The Násik
collectorate as regards infantile operations is but a shade better than the general
result for the whole circle, for here the subjects under one year numbered 38.7
percentum while those over one year were 61.3. In Khándesh the percentage
under one year is 35.3, and over one year 64.7. In the native states, matters,
in this respect, are not so satisfactory, but this may be accounted for by the
amount of leeway to be made up, as vaccination in them, is a thing of recent
introduction. The percentages of the three states taken together stand at under
one year 16.5 and over one year 83.5. Contrasting these results with similar
ones attained in 1872-73 as taken from the published report I have to show an
advance in all the districts with the exception of Khándesh.
Result.
7. The result obtained in primary vaccinations gives a percentage of success
of 93.7 and that in re-vaccination 67.5. The former is
not so good as I would wish ; and I think a good
deal of this low rate is to be attributed to the failures which occur amongst
persons who ought rather to appear in the re-vaccination columns than in the pri¬
mary. Grown up children may have had slight attacks of small-pox and the fact
easily escape the notice of the vaccinator at the time of his operating ; and so,
while from the previous invasion of the natural disease they are rendered imper-
vious to the action of vaccination, they are shown on the returns as failures of it.
Lymph, vesicles and ci-
catrices.
8. The lymph in use throughout the year was generally good and active,
and these qualifications regarding it I have had fre-
quent opportunities of personally ascertaining, and
have received many reports, testifying to the same,
from the assistant superintendents. It absolutely failed but in one instance, and
that was in the hands of the Bhosawal vaccinator, Ganesh Somnáth. In the
south-eastern extremity of the táluká, I came on two villages on the 7th day after
the vaccinator's visit, and found all his cases complete failures. The lymph he
used, I found, he brought on glasses ; and as his explanation for not bringing to
the villages, a vaccinifer, and excuse for the failure of his lymph were far from
satisfactory—too evidently subterfuges to screen his own wilful negligence — I
fined him heavily, and put him under stoppages until such time as I found his
lymph and work favourably reported on by the assistant superintendent. I had
his lymph renewed from the bordering táluká. Sáwadá, where the vaccinator,
Sitárám Sadáshiva, had some of very good quality in use which I saw in six dif-
ferent villages. This was the only instance where the lymph absolutely failed ;
but there were two tálukás, in which a renewal of the lymph was found necessary,
in consequence of that in use not being quite satisfactory ; they were Sinnar
and Páchorá. Considering the lymph was in this active state it may not unrea-
sonably be expected that a better percentage of success should have been obtained,
but the cause I alluded to in speaking of results has much to say to this. The
vesicles I saw were generally good, and with the two exceptions above referred to,
they were both large and characteristic. The cicatrices I examined myself on the
arms of some 14,425 children were generally very fair, and I have had, from time
to time reports from my assistant superintendents similarly characterising those
they examined on the arms of 26,954 children.
Small-pox.
9. From returns I have received through the different district magistrates,
it appears that there were 9,020 cases of small-pox
in this circle during the year; and of these some
1,568 are reported to have died. A further analysis shows that, of the numbers