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Parsees, with respect to Vaccination, is quite inexplicable. At the commencement of the past
year, the authorities of the Fort Gratuitous Dispensary having requested that a Vaccination
Station might be opened in connection with it, for the benefit of the Parsee community and
others desirous of having their children vaccinated, and several Parsee Graduates, interested
in the working of the Dispensary, having promised to try their influence to induce persons to
bring their children there, a station was opened in connection with it; but I am sorry to say
that, notwithstanding the unremitted exertions of the parties concerned, the attendance of
Parsee children was not at all encouraging.
The obstructions in the way of the spread of Vaccination, as stated in the' last Annual
Report, continued to be more or less powerful as before. The result of the operations of the
past year, however, has been rather favorable; inasmuch as the greatest part of the total
vaccinated were children, there being only 245 persons above 10 years of age in the whole
number. During the year all the districts of Bombay and Colaba have been visited. The
lymph in use has been of good quality ; and the vesicles produced, for the most part, of a
genuine nature. The conduct of the subordinates has been unexceptionable.
CONCAN DIVISION.
Superintendent.—Assistant Surgeon T. B. BEATTY. (S. C. to England.)
Establishment.—Eighteen Vaccinators.
Years.
1859 . . . .
1860 . . . .
Total
Vaccinated.
39,669
45,773
Compared with the
preceding Year.
Increase.
....
6,104
Decrease.
6,314
....
Success-
fully
Vaccinated.
36,971
43,178
Percentage
of Success.
93.1
94.3
THE total number of persons vaccinated during the past year was 45,773, whilst in 1859
there were 39,669, showing an increase of 6,104. Of the number vaccinated there were
43,178 successful cases recorded, or 94.3 per-cent. on the whole; and of those vaccinated,
23,294 were males, and 22,479 females, showing an excess of 815 in favor of the males;
39,090 were above the age of one year, and 6,683 below one year. The conduct of the
Vaccinators has been satisfactory.
Dr. Beatty, the Superintendent, left on sick certificate for England before the end of the
year. He states, that during January 1860, " I was acting as Civil Surgeon at Tannah, and
only on the 18th of February proceeded into the districts. The Talookas of Kolwan and
Morbar (Tannah Collectorate) were visited, the work of two Vaccinators examined, upwards
of 600 children who had been vaccinated were inspected, and I was well satisfied with the
work and lymph of the Vaccinators in this part of the district. During the month of March
I visited and examined the work in three Talookas in the Tannah Zillah, besides a portion of
Colaba; about 640 vaccinated children were seen, the lymph and vaccine pustules were
found to be excellent, and their work carefully performed. On the 19th of the month I left
the Tannah Collectorate, and proceeded to Colaba, in which districts I was engaged during
the remainder of the month ; about 550 children in the Colaba districts were inspected this
month. In the month of May I commenced my inspection in the Rutnagherry Collectorate.
The Talookas of Severndroog and Unjunwell were thoroughly visited, and the work and