26TH JULY 1894, Nos. 1385, 1386 L., LOCAL AND MUNICIPAL.
GOVERNMENT OF MADRAS.
LOCAL AND MUNICIPAL DEPARTMENT.
READ—the following paper :—
From Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel W. G. KING, M.B., C.M., D.P.H., Acting Sani-
tary Commissioner for Madras, to the Chief Secretary to Government, dated
Fort St. George, 30th June 1894, No. 900-V.
I have the honour to forward herewith four stitched copies of the vaccination
report for 1893-94 as directed in G.O., Mis. No. 2567 L., of 17th October 1891.
ORDER—dated 26th July 1894, No. 1385 L., Local and Municipal.
With his letter read above, the Acting Sanitary Commissioner forwards the report
of the Inspector of Vaccination and Deputy Sanitary Commissioner on the working
of his department during the year 1893-94.
2. The following statement shows the total reported number of operations
performed by the several agencies employed 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 staffs .. .. .. .. ..
(f ) Medical subordinates .. .. .. ..
(g) Zamindari vaccinators .. .. .. ..
Total ..
Average cost ..
Number of operations reported to be performed.
1889-90.
28,336
718,587
85,570
3,702
27,849
6,444
5,260
875,748
RS.
0
A.
3
P.
8
1890-91.
17,901
781,430
99,058
3,862
42,683
9,223
6,403
960,560
RS.
0
A.
3
P.
7
1891-92.
16,501
860,301
110,590
3,585
47,352
8,463
6,628
1,053,420
RS.
0
A.
3
P.
7
1892-93.
15,142
967,991
114,953
6,089
38,341
15,142
6,883
1,164,541
RS.
0
A.
3
P.
5
1893-94.
15,805
992,390
113,837
6,489
28,513
16,439
6,359
1,178,832
RS.
0
A.
3 P. 5
The total reported number of operations performed during the year shows an
increase of only 14,291 or 1.2 per cent. over the previous year's figure. There was an
improvement in the amount of work done by local fund vaccinators, but the number
of operations performed by dispensary staffs continued to decline—a result no doubt
due to the decision arrived at in G.O., dated 9th May 1892, No. 1066 L., making
vaccination work discretionary in the case of medical subordinates in charge of hospitals
and dispensaries.
The total number of cases verified by the Deputy Inspectors of Vaccination
exhibits a satisfactory advance, being 634,399 against 597,527 in 1892-93 and
524,571 in 1891-92, and in only five ranges did these officers fail to check at least 50
per cent. of the cases. The work done by the Deputy Inspectors of the Trichinopoly
and Sáttúr ranges appears to have been particularly good. The Government is
however disposed to doubt the accuracy of the reported figures ; it seems open to grave
question whether it is physically possible for one man to verify so many cases as each
of these two Deputy Inspectors is said to have. In this connection it would be
interesting to know how many cases the Inspector himself has found it possible to
verify in one working day. The results of the tour in Cuddapah which the Inspector
of Vaccination made for the purpose of obtaining an insight into the actual working of
the Deputy Inspectors are exactly what might have been expected. The experiment
should be repeated as often as possible as it is a matter of great importance that the