ORDERS OF GOVERNMENT.

            No 1283/XVI—231B-10-4 OF 1902.

FROM

                                          L. M. THORNTON, ESQ.,

                                                      SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT,

                                          UNITED PROVINCES OF AGRA AND OUDH,
To

                                    THE SANITARY COMMISSIONER,

                                                      UNITED PROVINCES OF AGRA AND OUDH.

                                    DATED NAINI TAL, THE 20TH AUGUST 1902.

SIR

ION DEPT.

I AM directed to acknowledge the receipt of your report, dated
30th July 1902, on vaccination in the United Provinces of Agra and
Oudh for the triennial period 1899-1900 to 1901-1902. Although the
report covers the triennial period, it deals more especially with the last
year, as the history of the preceding two years formed the subject of
separate reports, which were reviewed in Resolutions by Government.
In future, under the orders of the Government of India, intermediate
years will be dealt with by the Sanitary Commissioner in brief notes,
and ordinarily these will simply be acknowledged by Government.

2.    In the present report there is nothing calling for the orders of
Government, and a review will not therefore be published, as the
Government of India are averse to the mere repetition of information
and summarizing of statistics in such papers. The progress of vaccina-
tion during each of the three years, impeded as it was by the presence
of plague, has been steady, though not rapid : the percentage of success-
ful vaccinations to total operations stands high, and you note a satis-
factory increase in the number of successful re-vaccinations. The
relative backwardness of the Second Circle as compared with the First
Circle, and the causes of this fact, have been noticed in previous years,
and you are alive to the desirability of improving the work in the
Second Circle. The comparative immunity of each district from small-
pox coincides as nearly as can reasonably be expected with the develop-
ment of vaccination therein. The disease was quiescent during 1901,
and the provincial death rate due to it was the smallest on record.

3.    Orders have issued for the construction of the new bovine
lymph depôt at Patwa Dangar, referred to in paragraph 15 of your
report. It is understood that you have addressed the officers who have
done an insufficient number of inspections (paragraph 18). Lieutenant-
Colonel Thomson explained last year, in response to an enquiry from
the Government of India, that the column in Statement V showing the
percentage of inspections to total number vaccinated is not by itself an