BOMBAY PRESIDENCY.
3
District or Circle.
Western Registration District.
Presidency Circle
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Central Registration District...
Southern
do. ...
Gujarát
do. ...
Sind
do. ...
Total ...
Aden, Muskat, Bushire and
Shaikh Othmán
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British Army
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Native Army
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Total ...
Itinerant
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Dispensary ... ... ... ...
Army
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Grand Total ...
PERSONS PRIMARILY VACCINATED.
1894-95.
112,632
18,107
191,656
165,817
130,048
80,006
707,266
2,404
171
2,515
9,686
1895-96.
115,606
19,027
184,763
167,209
139,657
99,190
725,452
8,421
214
3,561
8,775
Increase.
2,974
2.57
820
5.08
...
1,392
0.84
9,609
7.38
10,184
11.44
18,186
2.57
1,017
42.30
25.15
1,046
41.59
1,089
40.54
De-
crease.
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6,893
8.59
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PERSONS REVACCINATED.
1894-95.
6,796
2,148
4,996
25,106
4,645
14,982
58,673
134
609
1,754
2,363
1895-96
7,431
9,106
5,102
26,405
5,671
21,387
75,102
93
661
2,300
2,961
IN-
crease
635
8.54
6,958
323.93
106
2.38
1,299
5.17
1,026
22.09
6,405
42.75
16,429
28.00
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52
8.54
546
31.13
598
25.31
De-
crease.
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41
30.60
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TOTAL NUMBER OF PERSONS
OPERATED ON.
1894-95.
119,428
20,255
196,652
190,923
134,693
103,988
765,939
2,538
780
4,269
5,049
1895-96.
123,037
28,133
189,865
193,614
145,328
120,577
800.554
3,514
875
5,861
6,786
In-
crease.
3,609
2.93
7,878
38.89
...
2,691
1.41
10,635
7.89
16,589
15.95
34,615
4.52
976
38.46
95
12.18
1,593
37.29
1,687
33.41
De-
crease.
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6,787
3.45
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ABSTRACT.
708,357
1,813
1,686
710,356
727,935
938
8,775
732,648
19,578
2.76
...
1,089
20,292
2.85
...
375
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...
58,572
235
2,363
61,170
74,672
523
2,961
78,156
16.100
27.42
288
598
16,986
27.77
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766,929
1,548
5,049
773,526
802,607
1,461
6,736
810,804
35,678
4.65
...
1,187
37,278
4.82
...
87
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Increase or decrease in vac-
cination work.
10. There is a net increase of 20,292 or 2.85 per cent. in primary
vaccination and 16,986 or 27.77 per cent. in revac¬
cination or a total increase of 37,278 or 4.82 per cent.
as compared with last year.
11. In primary vaccination a considerable decrease is shown in the Central
Registration District and a slight decrease under Dispensaries. In all other
Districts there is an increase under this head.
12. In revaccination the only decrease is shown against Aden Circle.
13. The total increase is spread over all Districts and Circles in the Presi-
dency except the Central Registration District and Dispensaries.
Causes of decrease.
14. The decrease under primary vaccination in the Central Registration
District is thus accounted for by Dr. Street, the De-
puty Sanitary Commissioner of the District: —
" It is found very difficult to keep up the number of primary vaccinations each year. In
many parts there is great difficulty in obtaining the usual number of children owing to the fact
that the vaccinators have now largely to rely on children under one year of age for their subjects
for operation, a very large proportion of children operated on being now of that age, and that
the number of unvaccinated children between one and six years of age from which they formerly
used to draw a large number of their subjects is now very considerably reduced. Formerly
there were as a rule plenty of unprotected children in most villages, and vaccinators had little
difficulty in keeping up their number; now in many instances they have great difficulty in ob-
taining the usual number of children and in some instances visit some of their villages three
times in a year in order if possible to do so. During recent years by the greater efficiency
with which work has been done, by animal vaccination, by overcoming opposition, and by the
most constant supervision, numbers have been kept up, and a large amount of work done,
and as a rule, large increases obtained, but the surplus of unprotected children, which were
reached by these means has become almost exhausted and we have now to rely on the num-
ber of children born during the preceding twelve months or so, and the number of these which
may be available for operation when the vaccinator visits a village, and the latter is greatly