REPORT

                                                              ON

VACCINATION THROUGHOUT THE BOMBAY
                  PRESIDENCY AND SINDH

                                 FOR THE YEAR 1873-74.

Divisions of the report.

This is the sixth report by the Superintendent General of Vaccination.
It is divided into the usual parts, viz., 1st the general
report, which is a summary of the work of the
whole department, and in it the chief points of the
circle superintendents' reports are noticed ; 2nd, extracts from the reports of
superintendents, civil surgeons and dispensary officers and also several special
reports on revaccination; and 3rd, the tables of returns showing the number
of vaccinations in each circle; the cost of vaccination in each circle and for the
whole department: the vaccinations at dispensaries, jails and in the army :
also the number of vaccinated children inspected by superintendents and
their assistants and the number of small-pox deaths in each registration circle.

Alterations in the vaccine
circles.

2. Before proceeding to show the work of the year it will be well to
notice the changes which have taken place in the
circles since last report was submitted. In the
reorganization of the department which was made
in 1871 there was a saving of some ten thousand
rupees, which Government in their Resolution No. 1202 dated 3rd April 1873
ordered to be expended in improving the department, because they had
pledged themselves not to effect a saving of provincial money at the
expense of local funds. Accordingly, Dr. Turnbull when acting Superin-
tendent General, drew up a scheme which was submitted to Government in
his letter No. 378 dated 3rd June 1873 and finally approved by Govern-
ment Resolution No. 2783 dated 7th August 1873, and brought into effect
from the following November. The changes may briefly be expressed
thus:—

1st, the Rewá Kánthá circle was abolished and its districts thrown into
the Northern circle, which then became the Eastern Gujaráth circle ; 2nd,
the Ahmadábád collectorate and Pálanpur states were taken from the Nor-
thern circle and thrown into the Káthewád circle, which then became the
Western Gujaráth circle. This new distribution of districts divides Gujaráth,
as it was in 1854, with the exceptions, that the Mahí Kánthá is now in the
Eastern Gujaráth circle instead of the Western Gujaráth circle and Baroda
territory does not form a part of Western Gujaráth circle as it did in 1854
but is now a separate circle by itself; 3rd, Násik and Khándesh collectorates
and Penth state were taken from the Central circle and added to the Wes-
tern circle; 4th, Ratnágirí collectorate was taken from the Western circle

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