8TH AUGUST 1895, No. 1388 L., LOCAL AND MUNICIPAL.
GOVERNMENT OF MADRAS.
LOCAL AND MUNICIPAL DEPARTMENT.
READ—the following paper:—
From the Sanitary Commissioner for Madras, dated 1st July 1895, No. 1035-V.
ABSTRACT.—Forwarding six stitched copies of the Vaccination Report for 1894-95.
ORDER—dated 8th August 1895, No. 1388 L., Local and Municipal.
With his letter read above, the Sanitary Commissioner forwards the report of
the Acting Inspector of "Vaccination and Deputy Sanitary Commissioner on the
working of the Vaccination Department during the year 1894-95.
2. Work done by the several agencies.—The following statement shows the total
number of operations performed by the several agencies in each of the last five years
and the average cost of each successful case:—
Vaccine agency.
(a) Government Vaccinators in Hill Tracts ..
(b) Local Fund Vaccinators .. .. .. ..
(c) Municipal Vaccinators .. .. .. ..
(d) Cantonment Staffs
..
..
..
..
(e) Dispensary
„
..
..
..
..
(f) Medical Subordinates .. .. .. ..
(g) Zamindari Vaccinators
..
..
..
..
Total ..
Average cost ..
Number of operations performed.
1890-91.
17,901
781,430
99,058
3,862
42,683
9,223
6,403
960,560
AS.
3
P.
7
1891-92.
16,501
8,60,301
110,590
3,585
47,352
8,463
6,628
1,053,420
AS.
3
P.
7
1892-93.
15,142
967,991
114,953
6,089
38,341
15,142
6,883
1,164,541
AS.
3
P.
5
1893-94.
15,805
992,390
113,837
5,489
28,513
16,439
6,359
1,178,832
AS.
3
P.
5
1894-95.
18,960
1,009,994
118,135
3,739
26,410
15,870
5,814
1,198,922
AS.
3
P.
5
The total number of operations performed during the year showed an increase
of 20,090 or 1.7 per cent. over the figure for 1893-94, but the average cost of a
successful case remained the same as in the last two years. This is apparently due to
the fall in the ratio of success, arising probably, as it is very general, from more careful
supervision and consequently more accurate returns. Re-vaccination advanced but
slowly ; it is to be hoped, however, that the efforts which the Sanitary Commissioner
has made to impress upon local bodies the importance of this operation will lead to
better results in the current year. It is presumed that in the districts in which a
falling off in the number of vaccinations is attributed to failure or insufficiency of
lymph supply, measures to remedy this defect have been taken. The attention of
the Collector of Anantapur will be called in the Revenue Department to the remark
in paragraph 10 of the report with reference to that district. There was an improve-
ment in the number of operations performed by the first three of the agencies
specified above, but in the case of the others there was a decline. In the case of
classes (e) and (f) this is no doubt due to the fact that vaccination by them has been
made discretionary ; but the short work in cantonments and zamindaris has not been
explained. The omission should be supplied in future should the decline continue.
3. Verification by Deputy Inspectors.—The number of cases verified by the Deputy
Inspectors, which up to 1893-94 exhibited a steady advance from year to year
declined from 634,399 to 608,706, but no explanation for this has been offered. Ten
of the Deputy Inspectors—not eight as stated in paragraph 18 of the report—failed to