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MEDICAL AND SANITARY REPORT OF THE NATIVE ARMY OF MADRAS.

STATEMENT No. X.

Vaccination.

— Native Troops. Recurits. Recurit
Boys.		 Non -comba-
tant Men.		 Women. Children.
Not exceeding
6 Months.		 6 Months to
14 Years.
Aggregate Strength 4,500 439 272 1,111 3,766 817 4,087
Number bearing marks of successful
vaccination		 2,886 297 185 755 2,361 562 3,363
Number bearing marks of previous
small-pox		 1,483 109 66 320 889 32 499
  Do. unprotected by either of above. 131 33 21 36 516 223 225
  Do. of cases of small-pox in 1876. 6 ... 2 ... 1 1 4
  Do. of absentees included in the
strength, of whom there is no in-
formation on above point		 ... ... ... ... ... ... 10
Ratio per Cent. of Strength.
Protected by previous small-pox. or
vaccination		 970.88 924.82 923.16 967.59 862.98 727.05 944.94
Unprotected by previous small-pox or
vaccination		 29.11 75.17 77.20 32.43 137.01 272.94 55.05

     Statement No. X. purports to give the numbers of the troops and the families and followers
protected and unprotected by vaccination or small-pox. With regard to the troops the numbers
may be relied upon, but not so in respect of the families and followers. Medical officers have
great difficulty in ascertaining the facts in the latter case.

STATEMENT No. XI.

Corps. UNDER ONE YEAR. ABOVE ONE YEAR. Grand
Total.
Successful. Unsuc-
cessful.		 Doubtful. Unknown. Total. Successful. Unsuc-
cessful.		 Doubtful. Unknown. Total.
Head-quarters Sappers and Miners ... ... ... ... ... 16 105 ... 24 145 145
23rd Regiment W.L.I. 32 9 ... ... 41 40 24 ... ... 64 105
36th      do.    N.I. 63 5 ... ... 68 55 5 ... ... 60 128
30th       do.       ,, 23 9 ... ... 32 ... ... ... ... ... 32
28th       do.       ,, 35 1 ... ... 36 35 2 ... ... 37 73
 4th        do.     L.C. 38 6 2 1 47 20 19 3 5 47 94
21st       do.     N.I. 33 11 ... ... 44 2 2 ... ... 4 48
27th       do.       „ 50 ... ... ... 50 52 20 ... ... 72 122
Total 274 41 2 1 318 220 177 3 29 429 747

     Statement No. XI. represents the amount of vaccination performed by Medical Subordinates.
It is not very, satisfactory, especially in the case of persons above one year, in whom the
failures have been about half of the entire number vaccinated. In the Sappers the successful
were to the unsuccessful operations in the proportion of 16 to 105, and as many as 24 are put
down as ' unknown' result.

    The operations have been more satisfactory in the case of children under one year. Out of 318
cases vaccinated 274 were successful. The largest number vaccinated was in the Sappers (145)
but with the smallest success. The next is the 36th Native Infantry with 12.8. The next the
27th Native Infantry (122.) The smallest number was in the 30th Native Infantry (32). These
were all children under one year.