BOMBAY PRESIDENCY.                              15

The average in the Western Registration District is not so high as it should
be, but this may he due to the increase in the number of vaccinators ; but more
work is required in Khándesh District, in which the total number of operations
has fallen off since last year, though additional strength has been given to
the District.

Kolába Zilla, though the average work per vaccinator is higher than last
year, does not show to advantage beside the adjoining districts of Thána on one
side and Ratnágiri on the other.

In Kolába, however, vaccination work is with difficulty carried on owing
to opposition of the people and so the number of vaccinators has been increased
so that every village can be visited and vaccination offered to the people,
and thus in Kolába the average number of people to each vaccinator is 42,491,
whilst in Thána it is 54,027, and in Ratnágiri 72,099, whilst the average popula-
tion per square mile is respectively 270, 215 and 276. Of course the larger
the number of the population to each vaccinator the more chance he has of
getting subjects to vaccinate.

In the Central Registration District the average is maintained throughout
and in the Southern Registration District, excepting Kárwár, where owing to
the hilly nature of the district, its unhealthiness, and the way the hamlets
are scattered, work is difficult, the Dhárwár District is the one which shows a
comparatively low average, but here there is one vaccinator to every 51,568 of
population, whilst in Belgaum it is 55,882 and in Bijápur 69,231. The Deputy
Sanitary Commissioner in charge states that some of the vaccinators are lazy,
but the average is not at all bad.

In Gujárat Circle also the average standard is a high one but varies also
with the average population to each Local Fund Vaccinator. In Kaira it is one
vaccinator to 44,774 people, whilst in Surat, Broach and Ahmedabad it is
respectively 1 to 60,144, 60,264 and 63,067.

English lymph.

37. There were altogether two consignments of English lymph in Novem-
ber 1895 and March 1896. Forty-five tubes of huma-
nized and 20 of bovine lymph were received each time.
In Aden calf lymph was sent direct regularly once a quarter from England. It
was in each quarter successful there except in September, when it entirely failed.

The table below shows the results of the lymph distributed in the Presi-
dency:—

H = Human lymph.
C = Calf do.

Lymph supply.

38. Lymph was supplied by the Deputy Sanitary Commissioner, Central
Registration District, to the Civil Surgeons of Luck-
now, Ghásipur and Mundla, Central Provinces, the