54
primary vaccinations numbered 10,371, and of these 97.7 per cent, were
successful. There were 54.5 per mille of population protected by primary
vaccination. Re-vaccinations numbered 9,694 and the percentage of successful
in them was 65.2. The average number of persons operated on by each
vaccinator was 3,167, or 1,339 above the general average. The deaths from
small-pox were only 5. Progress is satisfactory, but I do not think the
primary vaccinations can possibly be kept as high as last year for any length
of time.
Upper Sindh Frontier
District.
126. The Frontier district of Upper Sindh has a population of 89,985
and an area of 1,913 square miles. There are 3 local,
fund vaccinators, so each has an average of 29,995
of population and 637 square miles; the population is
very small but the area is large. The primary vaccinations numbered 3,599
and the percentage of success in them was 99.1. There were 39.7 per mille
of population protected. Re-vaccinations numbered 1,322, and the percentage
of success was 98.4, or nearly as high as in primary vaccinations. Each
vaccinator, on an average, vaccinated 1,640 persons, or 188 less than the
general average. 2 deaths only occurred from small-pox. The progress here
is satisfactory.
Khairpur native state.
127. His Highness Mir Ali Murad's territory has a population of 130,350
souls and an area of 2,708 square miles.
His
Highness keeps 2 vaccinators. They primarily vacci-
nated 9,536 persons and re-vaccinated 163. The percentage of success in the
former was 97.5 and 81.8 in the latter. There were 69.1 per mille of popula-
tion protected by primary vaccination. This high rate could only be reached
by vaccinating many grown up boys and girls, if not actually young adults.
It is the highest recorded.
Progress in Baroda circle.
128. The Baroda territory extends to about 4,400 square miles and has
a population of 2,000,225, so there are about 450 souls
to the square mile.
H. H. the Gaikawad maintains 1
assistant superintendent and 23 vaccinators, and the whole is administered
by the residency surgeon of Baroda. Each vaccinator has an average area
of 191 square miles and a population of 86,966—the latter is rather high and
the former low. The primary vaccinations were 29,622 and the percentage
of success 93.2. There were only 13.2 per mille of population successfully
vaccinated in the year under report, or less than half what might easily be
obtained were the superintendence efficient. There were only 173 re-vaccina-
tions. Each vaccinator operated on only 1,295 persons on an average, which is
533 below the general average of the department. The cost was 4 annas
and 2 pies for each successful case, or 1 anna and 2 pies less than the general
average. No returns of small-pox are received.
Baroda
vaccinators
should be superintended
by Drs. Cola and Blom¬
field.
129. I am of opinion that most of the Baroda territory should be under
the superintendence of Dr. Cola, the superintendent
of vaccination in the Eastern Gujarath circle, and that
part of the Gaikawadi territory which lies in Kathe¬
wád should be superintended by Dr. Blomfield,
superintendent of the Western Gujarath circle. If
these officers had the superintendence, I am perfectly sure that vaccination
would soon progress satisfactorily in H, H. the Gaikawad's territory.