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the extent to which unvaccinated, compared with vaccinated, children had been attacked; and the
amount of mortality in each. The result of this inquiry was communicated to the Director-
General in my letter, No. 222 of 1858, dated 4th August. In the 2nd paragraph of the letter
referred to, it was reported—" From an inspection of the Return appended, it will be observed
that the total number of children attacked with Small-pox during the six months—from 1st
January to 31st December 1858—amounted to 3,196 : out of this number, 3,005 recovered,
and 191 died. The proportion of deaths occurring in unvaccinated children to the whole
number, is shown to be nearly six per cent., whilst of those who had been previously vaccinated,
it was little more than two per cent. One child in every fifteen died amongst the unpro-
tected, whilst the mortality was only one in forty amongst those previously vaccinated,
Hence, the proportion of recoveries between vaccinated and unvaccinated is in the ratio of 8
to 3. In contrasting the Returns from Unjunwell and Severndroog Talookas, the difference
in the mortality from Small-pox amongst the unvaccinated and vaccinated is very remark-
able. In the former Talooka, 57 children— none of whom had been vaccinated—were attacked
by the disease; the percentage of deaths was so large as 17.4. In the Severndroog Talooka,
2,041 cases occurred : out of this number, 177 had been previously vaccinated, and amongst
these latter, no deaths occurred."
During the year, my tour of inspection was made partly in Tanna and partly in Rutna¬
gherry Collectorates. In the former, the work carried on by the Vaccinators in the Morbar,
Tullojee, Oonderee, Rewadunda, and Alibaugh districts was examined. In the month of March,
I proceeded to "Unjunwell, in the Rutnagherry Zillah, and inspected the work in that and in the
Gohugur districts; from thence proceeded to Severndroog, in which Talooka I was engaged
until the beginning of May, when the monsoon set in, and compelled me to return to head
quarters. In September, I again went into the districts, and up to the end of the year, the
Wagotun, Malwun, Vingorla, and Rajapore districts were examined.
In my Report for the year 1857, it was mentioned that Vaccination had been successfully
commenced in the Tullojee Talooka, Tanna Collectorate. Until the beginning of the year
1858, I am not aware that Vaccination had ever succeeded in that part of the Zillah. The
people of that district had hitherto shown the greatest aversion to its being introduced.
Even so late as in January 1858, one of the Vaccinators was directed to carry on operations
from Callian—the adjoining Talooka—to Tallojee, but immediately reported his inability, in
consequence of the villagers having assailed and prevented him. In the month of February,
availing myself of the opportunity of the Acting Collector, Mr. Morgan, being in that district,
I proceeded there, and brought to his notice the very unsatisfactory state of Vaccination, and
that inoculation was practiced universally throughout the Talooka. Owing to the valuable
assistance rendered by Mr. Morgan, inoculation was at once done away with, and I was enabled
to introduce vaccine matter, and to commence Vaccination. During the first operations, I
attended personally, and remained with the Vaccinators till the system had been fairly
established. Since that time, Vaccinators have been employed uninterruptedly, and their
work has been completely successful. Within the compass of a year, 2,628 have been vaccinated
in Tullojee alone: out of this number, 2,563 were successful cases. Last month, the
Mamlutdar forwarded me a report that no village throughout the Talooka had been left
unvaccinated, and that, for the present, the services of the Vaccinators might be dispensed
with. Much of this success, I consider, is to be attributed to the tact and interest evinced by the
Mamlutdar. He accompanied the Vaccinators to those villages, where difficulty was met and
objections shown, and thus overcame the prejudiced feelings of the people. No case of
inoculation was reported in that Talooka during the past year, where formerly nothing else
was resorted to.
In the Chief Secretary's letter to Government, No. 2756 of 1858, attention was called to the
subject of Vaccinators being in occupations other than those for which they were originally