Annual Reports : Annual Report on Vaccination for the year 1889-90.
No. 4748.
GENERAL DEPARTMENT.
Bombay Castle, 4th December 1890.
Letter from the Sanitary Commissioner for the Government of Bombay, No. B—1526, dated
1st July 1890—Submitting his Annual Report on Vaccination for the year 1889-90.
Provincial... ...
Municipal...
...
Cantonment ...
Local Fund ...
Native States ...
1888-89.
Rs.
94,303
29,708
1,049
89,206
59,562
2,73,828
1889-90.
Rs.
1,09,060
30,761
862
89,222
61,151
2,91,056
RESOLUTION.—The changes made in the Vaccination staff in the year 1889-90
consisted of the entertainment of one additional Inspector (in Baroda), 15 extra
vaccinators and a few extra clerks and peons. Of the vaccinators, 2, in Bándra
and Bijápur respectively, were employed by Municipalities ; 6, viz. 2 in Khándesh
and one each in Belgaum, Dhárwár, Bijápur and Kánara, were entertained at the
cost of Local Funds, and 7 were employed by Native States, viz. 5 by Baroda and
one each by the Mewás State and the Southern Marátha Jághirs. Though the
increases in establishment were trifling, the actual
cost of the department was, as shown in the
margin, greater than in the previous year by no
less than Rs. 17,228, on account of the return
from leave of two Deputy Sanitary Commis-
sioners. It is not understood how, seeing that
cost of Deputy Sanitary Commissioners was
the sole important head of expenditure which
showed an increase, Dr. MacRury has estimated
in paragraph 39 of his report that the cost
of vaccination, excluding pay of Deputy Sanitary Commissioners and Superin-
tendents, exceeded the cost in the previous year by Rs. 19,700.
2. Primary vaccinations have, except in 1884-85, been increasing steadily
for the last 10 years. In the year under review they numbered 900,232 as
compared with 896,394 in 1888-89 ; but on examining the figures in detail it
appears that the increase was almost entirely confined to the Southern Registra-
ation District in the Belgaum, Bijápur and Kánara Districts of which the number
of operations rose respectively from 28,944, 26,720 and 11,239 to 35,971, 32,885
and 15,139.
3. Re-vaccinations have now been increasing slowly but steadily since
1886-87, previously to which there had for some time been a tendency towards
decrease rather than increase. The number of operations in the year under
review was 58,470 as compared with 54,700 in 1888-89; but, as in the case of
primary vaccinations, the increase occurred mainly in the Southern Registra-
tion District in all the divisions of which it was very marked. The improvement
in Bombay City and in the Broach and Ahmedabad Collectorates of the Eastern
Gujarát Registration District is also satisfactory.
4. The Sanitary Commissioner compares in the usual way the number of
children actually vaccinated with the number available for vaccination. Though
in view of the untrustworthy nature of the registration of vital statistics and
the great difficulty of taking into account cases in which children who have been
vaccinated die before the age of one year, the estimates arrived at are probably
a little too sanguine, the Governor in Council has no doubt that in almost all
parts of the Presidency a fair proportion of the children born in any year and
surviving are duly vaccinated before they reach the age of one year. A com-
parison of the different Collectorates and Native State circles, as regards the
success attained in this respect, can perhaps be most satisfactorily made by
examining the rates per mille of population, the figures for which are given in
the subjoined table. In the Presidency Circle the comparatively low rate is
of course due to the fact that births in Bombay City are, as compared with
population, decidedly fewer than in the Mofussil; but the rates for several
B 296—6 ap