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Proportion of Persons
Vaccinated.
In the past year eleven thousand two hundred and thirty-six (11,236)
inhabitants were vaccinated in these districts,
which would give a proportion to the whole
population of 3.0 per cent., an amount only exceeded in the Govern-
ment districts of this Division.
General Proportions of
Population to Area, and
Number of Persons Vacci-
nated in other Districts.
For the other districts the figures would stand thus: total area four-
teen thousand four hundred and seventy-eight
(14,478) square miles ; total population one mil-
lion two hundred and thirty-seven thousand nine
hundred and sixty-five (1,237,965) souls ; average
population per square mile eighty-five (85) ; total number vaccinated
in 1856 thirty-eight thousand four hundred and twenty-seven (38,427)
inhabitants; proportion per cent. of vaccination to population 3.0.
Cause of probable de-
crease of latter proportion.
It may, with regard to the last item, be observed, that as vaccination
has for a considerable time been carried on in most parts of these districts,
the proportion has probably in many instances
decreased, the labours of the Vaccinators being
in such cases most likely confined to children
who have been born since their last visit, and not extended, as was not
unfrequently the case formerly, to several members in each family.
Dr. Lord, in his Annual Report for 1856, says :—
"Before entering into numerical details showing the results of the labours of Vaccinators both
of the Government and Native Chiefs' Establishments in this Division since the time of for-
warding my last Report on the subject, I shall premise a few general remarks on matters
which, from time to time, have claimed attention during the period under report.
"As such a course seems indicated by Medical Board's Circular No. 714 of 1856, dated 19th
March, I shall first offer an outline of the tours made during this time in my official capacity.
"Towards the close of the year 1855 from the end of which this report commences, I had
travelled through the Southern Districts of the Mahee Kanta, inspected the operations of the
Native Chief's Vaccinator employed in the Bawisee Zilla, visited on duty the Political Agent
at Sadra, and passed into the Purantej and Hursole countries in the Ahmedabad Collectorate,
in both of which Vaccinators were employed. After passing through these, at the commence-
ment of 1856, I moved to Morassa, the most northern point of the Ahmedabad districts for
travelling; nearly westward from this, I inspected at Purdoose Dadalia the work of a second of
the Mahee Kanta Vaccinators—these employed there from Surdooce. I was obliged to go a
little southward as far as Roopaul, to clear a high range of hills. From this I marched to
Ahmednuggur, where I inspected work formerly done by the Edur Raja's Vaccinators, after
which I crossed Saburmuttee at Anglore, and moved my camp to near Beesulnuggur, a large
town belonging to the Guickwar, in which a Government Vaccinator was at that time employed;
from Beesulnuggur I travelled to Meysand, and when I had inspected the villages about there,
I moved to the Kuttoosun Zilla, a detached district of the Mahee Kanta, adjoining the Veerutn¬
gaum Purgunna of Baroda; from Kuttoosun by Chundsuma to Puttun, at which town, and
around, I inspected vaccination lately performed; from Puttun I travelled due west to Rhadun-
pore, Palhunpore districts, and on to Waurge and Suntulpore on the Runn; thence I worked
northwards through the Rhankenjee, Morewarra, Tehuwarra, and Deodur districts, inspecting
the work of all Vaccinators employed on that side of the western Burmas by Chiefs under the