( xix )

officer, although this is not a special peon still I think it will be sufficient.
In Kulladghi and Dharwad there is a municipal vaccinator wherever there
is a dispensary.

All students are to qualify as vac-
cinators before receiving a charge.

29. It has been arranged by the Surgeon General that the students of
the Grant Medical College shall study vaccina-
tion after passing their examinations and be-
fore receiving charge of a dispensary. This
is in obedience to the order in the Resolution quoted in the preceding para.

The 202 local fund vaccinators'
work,

30. The local fund establishment of vaccinators numbered 202 or one
more than in 1872-73 ; the additional one was
appointed to the Supa petha by Mr. Macdonald
when small-pox was raging in it. They opera-
ted on 368,053 or 50,537 more than in the preceding year. The average number
for each vaccinator is 1,822. From the figures below, showing the increase
by circles, it will be observed that the greatest increases took place in the
Sindh and Southern circles—and the least in the Western Gujaráth circle : —

The number of persons primarily vaccinated in Sindh is considerably in
excess of the estimated births, so no further increase is likely to occur
there and in the Western Gujaráth circle the vaccinations nearly equal the
available children so no increase is likely to occur there either, but some further
increase may be expected in the other circles, and a very considerable increase
may be expected in the Southern circle.

The work of the 125 native states'
vaccinators.

31. The number of vaccinators maintained by native states was 125
or 6 more than in the preceding year. I
have already mentioned that these in-
creases were made by the Chiefs of Sángli
and Miraj and by H. H. Mír Alí Murád
and H. H. the Ráo of Kutch. The number of persons operated on was
191,331 or an increase of 8,670. Each vaccinator's average is 1,530.

The following figures show where the increases and decreases occurred:—