4                                     VITAL STATISTICS IN NATIVE STATES.

arrangements are in the hands of a Municipal Committee. The Residency
Surgeon, Western Rajputana States has been appointed consulting and Advisery
officer to the Jodhpur Municipality on matters concerned with this Depart-
ment.

21.  Bikaner.—The sanitation of the city is in the hands of the Municipal
Committee and the Director-Medical Department, Bikaner State is a member.

22.  Bharatpur.—Assistant Surgeon, Onkar Singh in charge of the Victoria
Hospital, Bharatpur has been appointed Health Officer of the Municipality
there vice Assistant Surgeon Ishan Tosh Mittra who has been transferred from
the State.

23.  Major J. C. Robertson, I.M.S., Sanitary Commissioner with the Govern-
ment of India, visited Bharatpur on several occasions and instituted an enquiry
as to the cause of unhealthiness of the Bharatpur city, leaving Dr. Khambata,
D.P.H., to carry out investigations during his absence. His report is
awaited.

24.  A tramway line has been brought into use for carrying all excreta,
rubbish, etc., to a point about two miles from the city. It is worked by
buffaloes.

25.   Kotah.—Steady improvement has been made in the conservancy
arrangements for Kotah city—

(1)   All latrines are pucca and provided with iron filth receptacles and
Crowley iron carts.

(2)   164 kuchcha cess pits of private latrines have been replaced by
pucca ones.

(3)  13 moveable urinals of corrugated iron have been erected.

(4)  Five streets have been paved, two of these provided with surface
drains.

(5)  Nine corrugated iron dust bins have been placed for street
sweeping.

(6)   32 broken down houses have been removed.

(7)  All wells and Baories were cleaned.

26.  The local Sanitary Committees in the district towns have worked
smoothly. The Kotah Darbar have sanctioned lectures being given on sanita-
tion and prevention of disease in schools by Sub-Assistant Surgeons. As a
commencement six lectures will be given each term in four or five selected
towns.

                            VACCINATION.

                            STATEMENT I.

27.  In Ajmer-Merwara the number of primary vaccinations fell
from 15,486 in 1911-12 to 13,825 in 1912-13 and re-vaccination from 1,034 in
1911-12 to 117 in 1912-13. This decrease is partly due to the fact that many
inhabitants evade vaccination, and partly that no assistance of any sort is
given by the District or Police Officers to vaccinators to collect children for
vaccination.

28.  The number of vaccinators was the same as in 1911-12 with one
Native Superintendent. Each vaccinator performed 911 vaccinations against
1,108 in 1911-12; and the average cost of each successful case advanced from
38 pies to 47 pies.

29.  The Civil Surgeon, Ajmer inspected 820 children, against 506 in
1911-12; of whom 692 were found successful: and the Superintendent at
Nasirabad examined 834 children, against 1,411 in the previous season, of
whom 785 were successful.

30.  The Native Superintendent of vaccination inspected 309 villages and
examined 6,371 vaccinated children as compared with 7,013 in 1911-12. The
percentage of success amongst cases seen by him was 97 68 against 98.33 in
the previous year.