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districts, especially Thána, Kánara, Karáchi and Khairpur, indicate that there is
considerable room for improvement in the vaccination of children less than one
year old in those places :—
BRITISH DISTRICTS.
Western Registration District
Khándesh ... ...
Násik ... ... ...
Thána ... ... ...
Kolába ... ... ...
Presidency Circle ...
Central Registration District.
Ahmednagar ... ...
Poona ... ... ...
Sholápur ... ...
Sátára ... ... ...
Ratnágiri ... ...
Southern Registration District
Belgaum ... ...
Dhárwár ... ...
Bijápur ... ...
Kánara ... ... ...
Number of successful pri-
mary vaccinations of
children less than one year
old per mille of population.
22.7
18.9
14.9
22.3
18.3
32.4
23.5
33.6
29.9
20.9
23.6
22.4
27.7
9.9
Total number of successful
primary vaccinations per
mille of population.
30.2
26.6
29.1
26.8
23.2
37.8
34.1
40.9
37.2
33.1
39.8
33.5
48.5
32.5
BRITISH DISTRICTS.
Eastern Gujarát Registration District.
Surat ... ... ...
Broach ... ... ...
Kaira ... ... ...
Panch Maháls ... ... ...
Ahmedabad ... ... ...
Sind Registration District.
Karáchi... ... ...
Hyderabad ... ... ...
Thar and Párkar ... ... ...
Shikárpur ... ... ...
Upper Sind Frontier ...
NATIVE STATES.
States in Western Registration District.
Do.
Central
do.
Do.
Southern
do.
Do.
Eastern Gujarát
do. ...
Do.
Western do
Registration District .
Káthiáwár.
Pálanpur...
State (Khairpur) in Sind ... ...
Baroda Circle ... ... ...
Cutch
do. ... ... ...
Number of successful pri-
mary
vaccinations
of
children less than one year
old per mille of population.
22.
29.5
25.
27.7
27.4
16.7
20.2
23.
30.4
29.
21.2
21.3
22.6
17.7
20.7
19.7
14.4
27.
28.5
Total number of successful
primary vaccinations per
mille of population.
30.2
36.7
31.4
37.7
31.4
25.1
28.9
44.1
34.1
35.1
32.9
31.1
36.7
31.5
33.2
30.4
20.9
30.4
41.4
5. The Sanitary Commissioner expresses satisfaction with the inspection
work done by the Deputy Sanitary Commissioners and Superintendents of
Vaccination, and in the Central Registration District in particular the amount done
appears large. No explanation has been given of the failure of these officers to
visit the Panch Maháls and the coast districts of Kánara (except the Supa and
Yellápur Tálukas, the latter of which is above the gháts), Ratnágiri, Kolába
and Thána (except Kalyán) in all of which inspection appears to be specially
necessary. The number of villages visited as well as of those left unvisited by
the vaccinators of the department in each district might have been stated with
advantage. The average number of persons vaccinated by each vaccinator was
1,857, or nearly the same as in the previous year. As regards " rural Local Fund
vaccinators," in whose case alone a comparison can properly be made, column 7
of Statement No. 1 shows very wide variations between the average amount of
work done in different districts. In Kolába the average was only 1,232, while
in the adjoining district of Ratnágiri it was 2,278. In the three Kánarese in-
land districts of Belgaum, Dhárwár and Bijápur, in all of which the registration
of vital statistics is conducted very efficiently, and the circumstances of which
are in many respects similar, the number of vaccinations. per vaccinator was
respectively 2,351, 1,798 and 3,988. In Karáchi, where apparently difficulties
should not be excessive, the average number was only 1,053.
6. The operations were, as usual, very satisfactory on the whole. The
figures for re-vaccination in the Presidency Circle in the year under review
given in the last column of the table in paragraph 19 of the Sanitary Commis-
sioner's report are, however, somewhat remarkable when compared with those for
the previous year in that circle and those for both 1888-89 and 1889-90 in
other Vaccination Divisions. Some explanation of the great discrepancy should
have been given, especially as greater accuracy in recording results should
apparently be expected in Bombay City than elsewhere.