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3rd. The revaccinations should be performed by the surgeon of the re-
giment or by a competent vaccinator.

4th. The result should be recorded by the medical officer of the regi-
ment or jail himself.

How far these instructions have been carried out I am unable to say, but
I can say that the results were not always recorded by the medical officers
themselves but sometimes entrusted to their subordinates. I have received only
the returns of the operations in most cases without any report stating that these
simple rules were observed or not. The reports from Deputy Surgeons Gene-
ral Maitland and Johnstone are so interesting that I have added them to this
report along with two special reports on revaccinations in Rajkot and Kár-
wár jails by Surgeon Major Sexton and Surgeon Goldsmith. In the past year
there were 2,585 revaccinations in the native army of which 1,182 were suc-
cessful, 1,266 unsuccessful and in 137 cases the result was unknown. The
percentage of success was 48.2. In the whole presidency there were 26,693
revaccinations, of which 14,894 were successful, 7,748 unsuccessful and in
4,051 the result was not ascertained. The percentage of success was 65.7.
I would observe here that the army percentage of success is probably the
more correct. I have in para. 11 pointed out how difficult it is to place a
true value on the percentage of success as recorded by different persons in
revaccinations.

Cost.

22. The expenditure in 1873-74 was Rs. 2,16,076-8-4 or an increase
of Rs. 5,281-7-5 over the preceding year which was
caused by 1st the circumstance that for eight months
of the year there were no acting officers drawing
less than the full pay of the superior appointments and 2nd by the number
of assistant superintendents and clerks having been increased since the
1st November. A still further increase of expenditure will occur in future
from the second cause. The following figures show the sums expended
by each establishment:—