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" The Native officials do not render hearty assistance in the work: complaints under this
head come in almost monthly, more specially from the Broach and Surat Collectorates. With
reference to the Vaccinators themselves I can say but little from personal experience : those that
I have seen are well acquainted with their work ; but as before alluded to, carelessness attaches
to the Returns of three or four of them. A marked difference occurs in the comparative num-
bers vaccinated by each, which is due in a great measure to the populousness of their respective
spheres of labour. In the Oolpar and Koorsud districts, the Vaccinators have to contend
with the prejudices of an unwilling people, which, from my own knowledge of the fact, must
interfere with larger and more satisfactory numerical results. This conclusion is reached on
contrasting the work of two Vaccinators, one of whom furnishes a total of two thousand nine
hundred and seventy-eight (2,978) operations, the other a total only of nine hundred and
forty-one (941), or a difference of two thousand and thirty-seven (2,037). No changes have
taken place in the Vaccination Establishment during the year.
" The reports touching the quality of the lymph have been favourable. The virus in the cases
coming under personal observation, producing the characteristic vesicle. Small-pox, fatal in
most cases, occurred sporadically in one or two of the villages I visited. On inquiry, I found
that in one of these the children had been vaccinated with doubtful or rather unsuccessful result:
the disease was confluent. Inoculation seems to have died out in the Eastern Division Guzerat,
at least I have not met with any cases, nor have any been reported. The percentage of success-
ful vaccination may be fixed at eighty-seven. The main obstacle to the spread of vaccination
lies in the ignorance and prejudices of the people. The personal presence, however, of the
Superintendent, is the best argument in dealing with these; for the villagers brought their
children readily when they learned that a European had come amongst them, who formerly
held back when the Vaccinator appeared. Had not the exigencies of the Service recalled
me from the districts, I should have been able to furnish a more satisfactory report than the
one now submitted. I trust, however, and believe that the circumstances which render it
brief of necessity, do not affect the statistical correctness thereof.
SIND DIVISION.
Superintendent.—Assistant
Surgeon T. E. P. Martin.
Establishment.—Fifteen
(15) Vaccinators, at a monthly cost of
Rupees one hundred and ninety-six (196).
Table of five years operations and average :—
SIND DIVISION.
Total Number Vaccinated.
SEX
....
CASTE. .
AGE....
RESULT.
Male ........
Female ......
Hindoos ....
Mussalmans ..
Christians ....
Parsees ......
Other Castes..
Under one year.
Above one year.
Successful....
Unsuccessful..
Doubtful ....
Percentage of Success....
1853.
6,617
4,271
2,346
1,416
5,115
77
9
..
..
..
5,829
372
416
88.0
1854.
23,457
14,845
8,612
5,415
18,008
33
1
..
..
..
21,765
483
1,209
92.7
1855.
20,809
12,175
8,634
7,068
13,703
37
..
1
..
..
19,067
317
1,425
91.6
1856.
15,551
9,265
6,286
3,678
11,830
29
14
..
..
..
14,226
325
1,000
91.4
1857.
40,777
25,577
15,200
7,895
32,751
17
7
107
12,863
27,914
39,642
421
714
97.2
Average.
21,442
13,226
8,216
5,094
16,281
39
6
22
..
..
20,106
383
953
92.2