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Changes in the Department.
2. During the period under report all Government Vaccinators were transferred to the
Local Funds, and a Native Assistant Superintendent was
appointed to each collectorate. The previous staff of
Itinerant Vaccinators has been increased from 31 to 63. Every táluká in this Circle has a
vaccinator, and in those tálukás where the Municipal Committees maintain a vaccinator of
their own there are two. This had long been represented as requisite, and its accomplish-
ment will in a short time render our system of vaccination as perfect as can be hoped for,
without having recourse to legislation.
Percentage of Success.
3. The average percentage of success in all the establishments is 95.1. This has been
calculated upon the total number of operations, and is
therefore about one per cent. below that of the previous
year. It is, I am of opinion, still too high, as some of the vaccinators are not sufficiently
careful in filling up their returns.
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Re-vaccination.
4. The practice of re-vaccination, which is yet in its infancy in India, has been ex-
plained to the people, in accordance with the orders of
Government, Circulars on the subject having been issued
to all vaccinators about two years ago. The number of re-vaccinations performed was
1,381, but I am not prepared to say that all these were re-vaccinations, in the proper accep-
tation of the term.
Sex.
5. Of the total number of primary operations, 54,148 were males and 51,068 were
females ; giving a percentage of 51.4 and 48.6 respectively.
This is almost the same as the previous year, and needs
no special remark.
Age.
6. The percentage of operations on children under
and above one year is about the same as for 1870-71,
being 30.3 and 69.7 respectively.
Expenditure.
7. The total expenditure has been Rupees 31,018-2-3.
Of this sum there was paid—
By Government .............................................................
„ Local Funds ................................................................
„ Muncipalities ..............................................................
„ Native States ...............................................................
Rs.
14,397
10,988
4,264
1,378
a.
10
7
0
0
p.
8
7
0
0
The charge against Government is considerably larger this year than it will bo in
future, because the transfer of vaccinators to the Local Funds did not take place until four
months of the year had elapsed. The cost of each successful vaccination has been five annas
and one pie, being three pies more than during 1870-71.
Deputy Superintendents.
8. From the appointment of Assistants in such a large Circle as this, where it is
impossible for the Superintendent to visit personally
more than half the vaccinators in one year, great advan-
tage will result. They have already made themselves generally known to all Government
officers and village officials over their districts, and, in many instances, outbreaks of small-
pox are reported direct to them. In such cases they can be on the spot within a few days
of the receipt of the report; and at least three vaccinators can be summoned to the infected
locality to render assistance, without any detriment resulting to vaccination in the tálukás
from which they have been temporarily removed, because, being in the vicinity, they can
carry on their own and the extra work as well. These Assistant Superintendents were
selected from among the vaccinators of this Circle, not from seniority, but because they were