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MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF MADRAS.
Vaccination.
Examination
of young per
eons in lines
severer form. It prevailed from about the Middle of March to the middle of June, and
154 cases occurred, with 12 deaths. In the 29th Regiment the disease appeared about the
middle of May, and prevailed in a mild form during June and July ; there were 60 cases,
with 2 deaths. In the 5th Regiment only 6 cases occurred, and in the 24th Regiment the
same number, with no death in either. Among the sepoys themselves 6 cases in all occurred
during the year, with 3 deaths, viz., 2 in the 29th Regiment, both fatal ; 2 in the 3rd Light
Infantry, with 1 death ; and 2 in the Sappers and Miners, with no death.
Vaccination. —In vaccination marked progress has been made during the year; As
the annual vaccination return appended includes two regiments which only arrived in
Secunderabad at the end of the year, and does not show the results in three corps which
were here during the greater portion of it, I have had a supplementary stational vaccination
return, prepared to show at a glance what was actually done in Secunderabad in this way
during the period under review.
In 1871 the total vaccinations by Medical Subordinates here were 576, with 459, or 79.68
per cent. successful. In 1872 the total vaccinations were 2,013, with 1,687, or 84.05 per
cent. successful.
If the 4th Light Cavalry and the 5th and 24th Regiments N.I. had remained here
till the end of the year, they would all, I believe, have been completely protected, unless
as regards some of the women ; and, even as it is, I trust that their annual returns (which
will be received through other divisions) will show them to be almost so.
In the D, G, and H Companies of Sappers and Miners protection was complete at the
close of the year, with the exception of three children, In the 3rd Light Infantry notwith-
standing the difficulty occasioned by the prevalence of fever for so many months, only 16
women and 17 children remained unprotected ; and in the 29th Regiment 38 children. All
these will, I trust, soon be vaccinated, and the newly arrived regiments will also be taken
in hand.
Examination of young persons in li nes .— At my annual inspections in 1872, I examined,
- by desire of the Inspector-General, a number of young persons, taken at random, in the lines
of each corps, first separating those who had had small-pox from those who had not, and
then ascertaining how many of each class bore marks of vaccination. The results were
given in my Inspection Reports, but are here repeated in a tabular form.
' S . P . ' i n d i c a t e s t h o s e w h o h a d h a d s m a l l - p o x , a n d ' 0 . ' t h o s e w h o h a d n o t .
' V.' indicates those who had vaccination marks, and 'O.' those who had no marks, or
indistinct ones.
Lines.
Total
examined.
S. P.
O.
4th Light Cavalry...
... ...
...
...
54
22
V 14
32
V 3 2
O 8
O 0
3rd Light Infantry
...
...
...
...
66.
40
V 1 0
26 V 20
O 3 0
O 6
5th Native Infantry
...
...
..,
...
42
2I
V
14
21
V 1
8
O 7
O 3
24th
do.
...
...
...
.„
...
57.
30
V 1 7
27 V 20
O 1 8
O 7
29th
do.
...
...
...
,..
...
29.
7
V 1
22
V 1 5
O 6
O 7
9
V 4
Sappers and Miners
...
...
...
...
51.
42 V 26
O 5
O 1 6
Karkhana ...
...
...
...
...
...
19
11
V 6
8
V 3
O 5
O 5
Bearers
...
...
...
...
...
...
27.
12
V 3
1 5
V 8
O 9
O 7
Ordnance and Lascars
...
—
...
...
49.
15
V 9
34
V 2 6
O 9
O 8
Sudder Bazaar
...
...
...
...
...
85.
18
V 9
67
V 5 3
O 9
O 1 4
Total ...
479
185
V 84
294 V 22]
O 1 0 1
O 7 3
Examination
of young per-
sons in vil-
lages.
Examination of young persons in villages .—I purposed continuing these exami-
nations personally in the villages within cantonment limits ; but, having found considerable
difficulty even in the lines where I had the assistance of the regimental authorities in col-
lecting and examining any sufficient number of young people, I felt doubtful about the best
means of proceeding in the villages, where any measure, having even the appearance of
compulsion, would certainly tend to increase the difficulty of carrying on vaccination.
I, therefore, consulted on this matter with Mahomed Moozaffooden Hussain, Moonsubdar
of H. H. the Nizam's Government, an intelligent native gentleman well acquainted with the
feelings and prejudices of the villagers. He strongly dissuaded me from attempting to con-