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21. I am of opinion that there should be a Vaccinator in each Circle
appointed to carry on animal vaccination : the expense of it in the districts
would, I think, be small. In order to enable Superintendents to acquire a
knowledge of the method of operating, I have recommended that all Super-
intendents of Vaccination be allowed to come to Bombay on a short visit, to
gain a practical knowledge of animal vaccination.*

Inoculation.

22. None of the Superintendents in their report make any mention of
inoculation having being practiced in 1869-70,
with the exception of the Superintendent in
Sind, who says that an instance was reported, but not substantiated on inves-
tigation.

Small-pox.

23. In the Central Circle small-pox prevailed more or less in every ta-
looka except one, but it was epidemic in Indee
and Shindghi Talookas only. At paragraph
13 of Dr. Gordon's Report he shows the number, deaths, &c., from small-pox
in each collectorate of the Central Circle. There were 21,943 cases of the
disease in 1869. " Of these, 93.5 per centum were unprotected, and 6.48 had
been previously vaccinated. Of the former 12.3 per centum died (a very small
death rate), and of the latter 8.9 per centum. Of the 6.48 protected and after-
wards affected by small-pox, 1.5 were vaccinated in infancy, and 4.9 in after
life; of the former there died 4.2, and of the latter 10.2 per centum. Thus it
appears that infantile vaccination is nearly two and a half times a better pro-
phylactic than vaccination in after life. In detail I do not place very much
reliance upon these returns, more especially with reference to the number of
cases occurring after vaccination. During my tour, I on several occasions tested
the correctness of the Returns for 1868. As statements of the total number
of cases of small-pox, they are not very far from correct. As to the numbers
entered as previously vaccinated I discovered some grievous errors. As in-
stances, I may mention the returns of the villages of Ankola and Wakharrie,
in the Nassick Zillah ; the returns from the former showed that fifty-eight
cases of small-pox had occurred during 1868, and that all of them had been
previously vaccinated. Upon careful inquiry I found this to be altogether
incorrect, only one child had been previously vaccinated. The same was
the case with the return from Wakharrie." In the Southern Circle, Mr. Raby
says that he receives no returns of small-pox, but reports have occasionally
reached him of its prevalence, and he always sent a Vaccinator to the affected
locality as soon as possible. It was rife in parts of Dharwar, Canara, and
Belgaum Collectorates. Dr. Blanc, Superintendent of the Western Circle,

* This was sanctioned in Government Resolution No. 1232, dated 26th May 1870.