No. 5191 OF 1881.
Memo. by Officiating Commissioner, Hyderabad Assigned Districts, on the Vaccination
Report for 1880-81.
THIS Report was received from the Sanitary Commissioner on the 10th August,
submitted to the Secretary for Berar with this office No. 4152 of the 11th idem,
with a view to its being printed, and received back on 26th instant.
The form of the Report from the Sanitary Commissioner differs considerably
from that of the Report for the previous year.
Para. 3 of Report.
2. The remarks made in this para, as to the attitude of the people show
that generally there has been great improvement
in the feeling of the people on the subject of vac-
cination; and this is matter for congratulation. The suggestions made by the
Sanitary Commissioner for still further familiarizing the people with the aims and
objects of vaccination might be adopted, though it will probably not be found
necessary to call in all patels to the sadr at the commencement of the season. It
will be sufficient if Deputy Commissioners take means for letting the patels know,
through the leading men, such as Patels, Deshmukhs, Deshpandias, Honorary Magis-
trates, and members of municipal and local committees of the district, that opera-
tions are about to commence, and that Government expects assistance in further-
ing vaccination at the hands of all people of any influence in the province.
The remarks made by the Sanitary Commissioner in the concluding por-
tion of this para. are the reverse of complimentary to municipal committees in
general, and to the Amraoti Committee in particular. The Deputy Commis-
sioner, Amraoti, should look to this.
* The falling-off in the Ellichpur and Buldana Districts is
ascribed, in the first named district, to the Officiating Superin-
tendent being new to the work, and not keeping his staff up to
their work sufficiently. In the latter, it is said to have been due
to a failure in the supply of lymph in the early part of the
season, and one of the vaccinators having fallen id.
3. It is very satisfactory to notice that the outturn of work in the year
under report exceeded largely
that of the previous year.*
The total number of opera-
tions performed by the Vac-
cine Department was 80.083,
of which 86.7 per cent. of
primary vaccinations, calculated in the manner ordered by Government, were
successful, and 13.3 unsuccessful.
In addition to the above, there were 5,649, against 2,373 in 1879-80, operations
at dispensaries, of which 4,947, or 87.6 per cent., were successful. The number of
secondary operations by vaccinators was only 67, of which 18, or 26.9 per cent.,
were successful, and 45, or 73.1 per cent., were unsuccessful or doubtful.
In re-vaccinations at dispensaries, 87.7 were successful. The great difference
in successful re-vaccinations done at dispensaries and by the vaccine establish-
ment would appear to call for explanation, but none is afforded in the Report.
I observe in the Vaccination Report for 1880-81 for the Central Provinces
that 94 per cent. of operations are said to be successful, while in Oudh in 1877-78
the proportion is 85.9. The difference noticed in the figures for the three different
provinces is probably due to some variation in the mode of calculation.
4. Dr. Little attributes the falling-off this year in the percentage of
successful operations to the use of lymph preserved in tubes, and proposes in
future to substitute ivory points for the purpose of conveying lymph from one
village to another. Whether Dr. Little is right in his surmise as to the cause
of decrease in successful operations depends upon the mode in which lymph
used in vaccination in the previous year was preserved, and this the Report does
not show.