No. 2071 OF 1870.

FROM THE INSPECTOR GENERAL,

                                                Indian Medical Department.

To THE SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT,

                                                General Department.

                                                                  Bombay, 27 th July 1870.

SIR,—I have the honour to forward the Annual Report on Vaccination
throughout the Bombay Presidency and Sind for the year 1869-70, by the
Superintendent General of Vaccination.

2.     It will be observed that the work of the Department is steadily pro-
gressing, there being a small increase over the last year of 32,483, the total
number vaccinated being nearly half a million (464,667).

3.     There was no change in the strength of the Government Itinerant
Establishment, and I observe in paragraph 4 some exception is taken to the
decision upon the case of the Nassick Vaccinator and Peon. On the general
question as to whether Station Vaccinators should be paid by Government
or by Local Funds, it seemed to me highly expedient to carry out the views
of Government on this point; and I thought, moreover, the principle should be
carried out wherever practicable, and that Government" ought to be relieved
of the expenditure on account of vaccination in all towns capable of main-
taining their own Vaccinators," as noticed in paragraph 5. This has been
sanctioned by Government in Resolution No. 1481, dated 24th June 1870.

4.     It will be well, however, to consider the peculiar circumstances of
many of the poorer Municipal towns, which alone may not be able to bear
the additional burden of a Vaccinator and Peon. I would suggest whether
it might not frequently be possible to bracket two such towns together, the
Vaccinator working 3 or 6 months in each, when the towns are at a reasonable
distance from each other.

5.    It is difficult to state too earnestly the hope that, in any contem-
plated changes in a re-organization of this important Establishment, its general
efficiency will be maintained. In spite of much scepticism on the subject
(scepticism for which the French Capital has for some time past been pay-
ing in valuable lives), the Vaccination Establishment is doing a great work in

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