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Districts and Circles.
Western Registration District.
Presidency Circle
...
...
Central Registration District...
Southern
do.
do. ...
Gujarát
do.
do. ...
Sind
do.
do. ...
Total ...
Aden, Muskat, Bushire, and
Shaikh Othmán ... ...
British Army
...
...
...
Native Army
...
...
...
Total ...
Itinerant
...
...
...
...
Dispensary ... ... ...
Army ... ... ... ...
Grand Total ..
PERSONS PRIMARILY VACCINATED.
1893-94.
111,198
17,501
198,176
158,297
132,884
85,154
703,209
2,553
149
4,348
4,497
702,529
3,233
4,497
710,259
1894-95.
112,832
18,107
191,656.
165,817
130,048
89,006
707,266
2,404
171
2,515
2,686
708,357
1,313
2,680
712,356
Increase.
1,434
606
...
7,520
...
3,852
4,057
...
22
...
...
5,828
...
...
2,097
De.
crease.
...
...
6,519
...
2,836
...
...
149
...
1,833
1,811
PERSONS RE-VACCINATED.
1893-94.
6,481
3,372
6,992
24,799
3,832
14,831
59,307
302
323
8,344
3,667
1894-95.
6,796
2,148
4,996
25,106
4,645
14,982
58,673
134
609
1,754
2,363
ABSTRACT.
...
1,920
1,811
...
59,046
563
3,667
63,276
58,572
235
2,363
61,170
In.
crease.
315
...
...
307
813
151
...
...
286
...
...
...
...
...
...
De-
crease.
...
1,224
996
...
...
...
634
168
...
1,590
1,304
474
328
1,304
2,106
TOTAL NUMBER OF PERSONS
VACCINATED.
1893-94.
117,679
20,873
204,167
183,096
136,716
99,985
762,516
2,855
472
7,692
8,164
761,575
3,796
8,164
773,535
1894-95.
119,428
20,255
196,652
190,923
134,693
103,988
765,939
2,538
780
4,269
5,049
766,929
1,548
5,049
773,526
In-
crease.
1,749
...
...
7,827
...
4,003
3,423
...
308
...
...
5,354
...
...
...
De-
crease.
...
618
7,515
...
2,023
...
...
317
...
3,423
3,115
...
2,248
3,115
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7. It will be seen from the foregoing table that there were 712,356 persons
primarily vaccinated and 61,170 re-vaccinated against 710,259 and 63,276 re-
spectively last year, showing a net increase of 2,097 or 0.29 per cent. in primary
vaccination and a net decrease of 2,106 or 3.33 per cent. in re-vaccination. In
total operations there is a decrease of 9 only.
Increase and decrease.
8. There is a considerable decrease in the Central and Gujarát Regis-
tration Districts and a slight decrease in the Presidency
Circle, whilst a considerable increase is recorded in the
Southern, Sind and Western Registration Districts. In Aden, Muskat and
Bushire as well as in the Native Army there is a decrease but in British Army
there is an increase of 308 over the preceding year. In the Central Registration
District the decrease is said to be "owing to there having been 5,481 fewer births
registered during the year and to there having been a greatly increased preval-
ence of cholera and small-pox." With regard to the decrease in the Gujarát
Registration District Dr. Dyson says that " the causes of less work may be stat-
ed shortly as sickness real or imaginary among vaccinators and disease and ill-
ness among children. The unhealthiness of the year is shown by the increase
in infant mortality. There were 5,442 more deaths among infants and children
under one year of age than in the preceding year."
9. In the Sind Registration District, although there is an increase both
under primary and re-vaccination, still the " opposition that exists in some parts
of the province to both vaccination and re-vaccination presents a most serious
obstacle to the progress of the work. The matter has received much care and
study, and it is interesting to note that the antagonism emanates from some
dozen centres, the opposing element being composed of the well-to-do classes,
many persons being Subordinate Officials in Government employ. Enquiry has
elicited the fact that in Hyderabad, Shikárpur, Sukkur, Rohri, Sehwan, Tátta,
Hálla and one or two other towns, a most stubborn opposition exists—an opposi-
tion that is based upon no logical foundation, since the parents when appealed
to, state that they believe in the benefits of vaccination. No doubt were compul-
sory vaccination introduced into the towns alluded to above, the effect would be
to remove the opposition at once."
Infants successfully vacci-
nated as compared with avail-
able number.
10. The following table shows the number of infants successfully vaccinat-
ed in the Presidency exclusive of Native States. The
birth and death statistics are taken for the calendar
year, as usual, in calculating the number available
for vaccination, because infants are generally not
vaccinated until three months after birth:—