48
Ages.
Deaths from Small-pox ....
From birth to 15
days.
6
From 16 days to one
month.
21
Between 1and 3
months.
69
Between 3 and 6
months.
186
Between 6 and 9
months.
195
Between 9 and 12
months.
415
Between 12 and 15
months.
71
Between 15 and 18
months.
101
Between 18 and 21
months.
15
Between 21 and 24
months.
238
Between 2 and 4
years.
427
Between 4 and 6
years.
176
Between 6 and 9
years.
95
Between 9 and 13
years.
44
Between 13 and 24
years.
99
Between 24 and 44
years.
70
Upwards.
5
Total Deaths.
2,233
These facts speak unequivocably for themselves ; comment on them would be vain.
To proceed—As a natural consequence of this frightful state of things our vaccine
stations were scenes of unusually great bustle and activity almost throughont the year.
Never during my many years' connection with the department was there such a run upon
it as in the month of April 1872. Often and often were our stations crowded to suffoca-
tion. At times there was scarcely room to accommodate all the applicants for the opera-
tion During these trying times animal lymph was our only salvation. But for it I do
not know what we should have been able to do. 30 and 40 vaccinifers would not have been
sufficient ; and we could never, at the best of times, be certain of securing three or four.
Lymph preserved in tubes might have been supplied—as to a certain extent actually sup-
plied—from the Mofussil, but experience has taught me not to depend much upon it; and
under the peculiar circumstances of the times they would have been worse than useless.
Either Government would have been compelled to permit and assist in the forcible taking
of lymph, from successfully vaccinated children, or the deaths from small-pox would have
been more than they already have been. Fortunately, too, there were scarcely any failures
in the operations on the heifers ; and not on a single occasion have I been under the
necessity of sending a single applicant away unvaccinated. During the month of April
alone 2,583 persons were primarily vaccinated—a number almost one-third of the average
yearly vaccinations performed in Bombay for many years past.
Operations of the year.
3. As the result of this unusual state of things we had to perform 16,823 operations
of which 14,940 were primary, and 1,883 re-vaccinations.
Among the primary operations there was an excess of 408
operations over the number of persons vaccinated ; the number operated upon being 14,532.
Sex, Caste, Age.
4. Of these there were 8,586 males and 5,946 females, the males as usual preponder-
ating. 1,031 were Christians, 9,835 Hindús, 1,813 Ma¬
homedans, 848 Pársís, and 1,005 of other castes, includ-
ing Jews,—8,015 under and 6,517 above one year of age.
Result.
5. Of the primary operations 12,343 were successful, giving a percentage of success
of 89.55 ; 1,517 were unsuccessful; and in 1,080 the result
could not be ascertained.
Re-vaccinations.
6. During the year under report we had only 1,883 re-vaccinations against the 3,543
of the year preceding,—a decrease of 1,660. It will be re-
collected, however, that during the year preceding the last,
owing to the exceptional circumstances of the times, the number of re-vaccinations was
particularly large. We had not only subjects from amongst the general community, but