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This table shows the results in the four tahsíls overtaken :—
Statement No. V.
Tahsíl.
Rewári ... ...
Firozpur ... ...
Nuh ... ...
Gurgaon ... ...
Total ...
Total number
vaccinated.
11,404
6,362
6,419
5,850
30,035
Ratio of successful
cases per 1,000 of
population
69.76
45.12
40.33
44.41
49.90
Rewári exhibits the high-
est ratio, being 19.86 per mille
above the average of the other
tahsíls, a result chiefly due to
the larger prevalence of fever
in the latter. Total number of
persons vaccinated was 30,035 ;
27,157 primary cases were
returned as successful, being
95.51 per cent.
DELHI DISTRICT.
13. This district was entered on towards the end of December. In the tahsíl of Delhi
vaccination was received with great disfavour, which in many parts it was found impossible to overcome ;
much time was thereby lost, and the progress of the season's work was very materially impeded. The
vaccination of the city of Delhi having been carried out by Dispensary vaccinators, the figures given
in this table only show the results obtained in the towns and rural circles:—
Statement No. VI.
Tahsíl.
Delhi ... ...
Ballabgarh ... ...
Sonepat ... ...
Total ...
Total number
vaccinated.
3,349
5,882
5,796
15,027
Ratio of successful
cases per 1,000 of
population.
19.43
42.70
32.66
31.62
From this will be seen the
low place the tahsíl of Delhi
holds in the proportion vacci-
nated, being 23.36 per mille of
population under the ratio of
Balabgarh, and 13.23 per mille
under Sonepat. Total number
vaccinated 15,027, of which in
primary cases 96.59 per cent.
were reported to be successful.
The number of deaths from
small-pox registered in 1878 was
845, or a death rate of 1.39 per mille of population.
KARNAL DISTRICT.
14. This district has always been noted for the great aversion the people have to vaccination,
and this year proved no exception to the rule. Unfortunately for any hope of its success, five untrained
men had in the early part of the season been temporarily entertained by the various District Committees,
and sent to work in distant villages without control or supervision of any kind; and, as might have
been anticipated, the results were unsatisfactory in the extreme. I examined their work (if it could be
dignified by that term) in all three tahsíls, but not a single successful case could be shown. The
vaccinators appeared to have employed the greater portion of their time in going from village to village
for the purpose of extorting money from the villagers, many of whom were only too ready to give
bribes in order that their children might escape vaccination. This practice was absolutely proved to
have been carried out in several villages, and it appeared to have been commonly resorted to by these
men wherever they went. In this way a considerable portion of ground had been gone over before the
vaccinators of the special establishment reached, and such was the bad effect produced that vaccination
in many parts, notably in the tahsíl of Kaithal, became all but impossible; and the season's work again
received a most serious check. As illustrative of the great unpopularity of the operation in the tahsíl
last mentioned, I may give the instance of a villager, who, in the presence of a large gathering of
people, loudly complained to me that it was a hard measure that the country should be inflicted with
the double misfortune of scarcity and vaccination in one and the same year. A glance at this table will
show the small out-turn of work effected :—
Statement No. VII.
Tahsíl.
Karnál ...
Kaithal ...
Pánipat ...
Total ...
Total number vaccinated.
6.762
3,057
4,256
14,065
Ratio of successful cases
per 1,000 of population.
26.28
13.80
21.90
21.07
The average ratio of the
district is seen to be extremely
low, 21.07permilleofpopulation;
Kaithal of all the parganahs, the
areas of which were fully covered
during the past season, holds
the lowest place. Total number
of operations 14,065 ; and the
percentage of successful primary
cases 97.06. Small-pox had been
epidemic throughout the greater part of the year ; number of deaths registered from this disease in 1878
was 4,006, a death rate of 6.59 per mille of population.