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                                    GODHRA' DISPENSARY.

Assistant Surgeon Shántarám Vináyak Kantak, L.M.

Population 10,641.

During the past year 466 individuals were vaccinated primarily against 356
in the previous year. Vaccination was performed throughout the past year in
the town. During the greater part of the year the lymph was good, but it
deteriorated about the months of October and November. As vaccination in a
kasbá town, throughout the year, is very difficult to accomplish from the paucity
of numbers, I submit that it might cease four months in the year during the
monsoon. The people are averse to getting their children vaccinated during the
hot season. It will be seen from the return that the musalman element predomi-
nates. The police authorities lend me the assistance of a police peon to enable
the police patil to collect children. There is no doubt that the people have felt
the benefits of vaccination ; but they resolutely refuse to allow lymph to be taken
out of their children's vesicles. They seem to think that a child gets weakened
and anæmic by such abstraction of lymph.

2. There has been no epidemic of small-pox in the town of Godhrá during
the past year.

                                        GOGO DISPENSARY.

Mr. Lewis George, Apothecary.

Population 9,571.

The total number of persons vaccinated during the year has been 254. 141
males and 113 females ; among them were two male adults, who being sea-faring
men had to obtain a certificate of having been vaccinated. One of these had
faint marks of having been vaccinated, and the other had visible marks of having
had small-pox; the latter on being revaccinated, took the disease, but the youth who
had faint marks of having been previously vaccinated did not. There has been an
excess of 58 operations over the preceding year, when only 198 were vacci-
nated. The vaccination up to the 10th October 1873 was steady in progress,
and although the lymph on that date appeared good, yet the vesicles were small
on the 8th day, and the only way I could account for this deterioration is by
the thermometric maximum sun's rays having considerably increased on the
6th idem to 135° and on the 17th idem I saw that the vaccination had completely
failed. It was found afterwards difficult to obtain good lymph in tubes, as only
3 children were vaccinated in November and 2 children in December from lymph
received in capillary tubes from the assistant superintendent of vaccination who
was then at Talajá, and these failed, which rendered vaccination in abeyance till
the 23rd January 1874 when the superintendent of vaccination sent some lymph
in tubes, and this was successful, and from this period I vaccinated 93 children,
giving a result of 11 unsuccessful vaccinations from 93. Although the vaccina-
tions have not proved uniformly successful, yet I have been fortunately keeping
up the vaccination till the arrival of the present superintendent, who has now
introduced English lymph, and I hope to continue up the success.