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number of vaccinations. The number of vaccinations performed in 1904-05 bears
almost exactly the same proportion to the number of births registered as the number
vaccinated in five years in Karachi bears to the number of births there. But it is
obvious from the number of deaths of children registered, and it is a well-known
fact, that many children of Bombay residents are born in the mofussil and come to
Bombay while still very young. The question arises whether all these children are
vaccinated in the mofussil before coming to Bombay. Unless they are, some three
or four thousand more vaccinations might be expected in Bombay.
4. The scheme for a depôt for the manufacture of preserved lymph for use
all over the Presidency is under the consideration of Government. The results
meanwhile of the vaccinations performed with lanolinated and glycerinated lymph,
though not quite so good as those of ordinary vaccination, are very satisfactory, and
the Sanitary Commissioner has been asked to extend his experiments to other parts
of the Presidency and carefully test the glycerinated lymph in Gujarat, Sind and the
Central Division. The Belgaum experimental depôt under Captain F. H. G. Hutchin¬
son, I.M.S., appears to be doing excellent work.
5. The prescribed maximum length of the triennial report is 8 pages, but the
Sanitary Commissioner's report covers 12 pages. In the opinion of His Excellency
the Governor in Council the excess might have been avoided by the omission of
several unnecessary tables in the letter press (vide paragraphs 3, 13, 15—19, 23, 30,
31, 33, 34 and 44), where a few remarks in narrative might have been substituted,
and by the condensation and omission of parts of other paragraphs (vide para-
graphs 19, 20 and 32). Where a maximum has been prescribed, every effort should
be made to adhere to it, and in the present report the excess might have been
avoided with a little care.
6. The following mistakes have been noticed :—
Paragraph 5.—Number of primary vaccinations
...
...
Statement I.—
Do.
do. ... ...
606,058
606,088
The latter appears to be correct.
Statement V, Column 2.—" Preliminary " for " Primary ".
In paragraph 5 the primary vaccinations in 1903-04 and 1902-03 are said
to number 551,244 and 536,989. In the statements attached to the reports of
those years the figures are 551,545 and 537,180. In the letter press the figures are
552,101 for 1903-04, and 536,989 (report of 1902-03) and 537,744 (report of
1903-04) for 1902-03. If the figures in the report under review are correct, the
differences between them and those previously published should have been explained.
J. SLADEN,
Acting Secretary to Government.
To
The Surgeon General with the Government of Bombay,
The Sanitary Commissioner for the Government of Bombay,
The Commissioner in Sind,
The Commissioner, N. D.,
The Commissioner, C. D.,
The Commissioner, S. D.,
All Collectors, including the Collectors and Deputy Com-
missioners in Sind,
The Accountant General,
The Municipal Commissioner for the City of Bombay,
The Compiler, General Administration Report for 1904-05,
With copies of
the report.
The Government of India (by letter No. 5533. dated the 5th October 1905),
The Under Secretary of State for India (by letter).