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REPORT OF THE KING INSTITUTE, GUINDY.
The resulting fall in the price of vaccine due to the decreased nett charges
amounts to 11.4 per cent., the price per case being 4.289702 pies.
8.
TABLE V.
Returns recorded in the King Institute from the whole of the Madras Presidency according
to the month of the year.
Serial
number
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Months.
1914.
April ... ... ... ...
May ... ... ... ...
June ... ... ... ...
July
...
...
...
...
August ... ... ... ...
September ... ... ... ...
October ... ... ... ...
November ... ... ... ...
December ... ... ... ...
1915.
January ... ... ... ...
February ... ... ... ...
March ... ... ... ...
Total
Number
successful.
110,817
107,464
106,332
104,994
109,843
109,789
103,311
110,646
104,820
106,592
106,145
103,414
1,284,167
Number
unsuccessful.
4,897
8,270
8,154
7,672
8,708
9,361
10,660
11,842
15,910
15,579
14,588
14,885
130,476
Percentage
of success.
95.76
82.85
92.87
93.19
92.65
92.14
90.64
90.33
86.82
87.24
87.91
87.45
90.77 %
successful.
Table V shows the success rate obtained monthwar. There has been a slight
fall of 0.86 per cent. over the whole year. The seasonal curve is quite different
from what it usually has been, and we have the unusual spectacle of fair results
being shown right through the hot weather and then the results falling off in
October, when they usually are beginning to improve and remaining indifferent
right through the cool weather. This is quite the most remarkable curve we have
had to date, and it is difficult to account for. The drop becomes marked in
October which is just about the time when the old stock of vaccine stored during
the hot weather became exhausted, and freshly prepared vaccine was being issued.
Stored vaccine accumulated again, and calf operations were stopped in the middle
of November, and stored vaccine was used till the middle of February when fresh
vaccine was again resorted to. These various changes were however without effect
on the quality of the results obtained, which remained persistently indifferent. In
1913-14 the worst month was June and the best February. In 1914-15 the results
of these months were, respectively, 13.8 per cent. better and 8.8 per cent. worse.
9.
TABLE VI.
Returns recorded in the King Institute from the whole of the Madras Presidency, according to
districts, 1914-15.
Serial
num
ber.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Districts.
Anantapur ... ... ... ...
Bellary ... ... ... ...
Chingleput ... ... ... ...
Chittoor ... ... ... ...
Coimbatore ... ... ... ...
Cuddapah ... ... ... ...
Ganjām ... ... ... ...
Gōdāvari ... ... ... ...
Guntūr ... ... ... ...
Kistna ... ... ... ...
Kurnool ... ... ... ...
Madura ... ... ... ...
Malabar ... ... ... ...
Nellore ... ... ... ...
Nilgiris ... ... ... ...
North Arcot
...
...
...
...
Rāmnād ... ... ... ...
Salem ... ... ... ...
South Arcot ... ... ... ...
South Canara ... ... ... ...
Tanjore ... ... ... ...
Tinnevelly ... ... ... ...
Trichinopoly ... ... ... ...
Vizagapatam ... ... ... ...
Total ...
Total
successful.
26,701
33,130
29,113
32,480
52,699
30,004
73,336
61,517
58,255
74,703
33,065
49,420
127,909
38,219
5,484
60,078
55,480
57,982
61,034
36,540
57,550
63,468
56,926
109,074
1,284,167
Total un
successful.
1,596
1,091
4,989
1,809
16,102
2,832
4,350
13,998
5,304
7,181
1,086
9,984
13,982
4,765
167
5,993
1,683
3,910
7,775
3,564
2,573
4,568
4,268
6,906
130,476
Percentage
of success.
94.35
96.81
85.87
94.72
76.59
91.37
94.40
81.46
91.65
91.23
96.82
83.19
90.14
88.91
96.86
90.92
97.05
93.68
88.70
91.11
95.72
93.28
93.02
94.04
90.77