NOTES ON VACCINATION IN THE BOMBAY PRESI-
            DENCY FOR THE YEAR 1923-24.

                              Selected Districts.

1.    The control of vaccination in one selected District of each
Registration Circle continued to be exercised by the Local Board of
that District.

                  Changes in area and administration

2.    The municipality of Karachi took over control of vaccina-
tion in Karachi town from the Assistant Director of Public Health,
Sind Registration District, from 1st April 1923 in accordance with
Government Order, General Department, No. 7472, dated 21st June

1921.    Control and supervision of vaccination in the Sachin State
has been taken over by the State Authorities from 1st January 1924.
Vaccination of the civil population in the Belgaum Cantonment was
taken over by the Cantonment Committee and placed in the hands
of the Medical Officer in charge of Cantonment Hospital in October

1922,  but on the hospital being reduced to the status of a dispensary
there was no staff available for the work and it was, therefore,
handed back to the Public Health Department on 1st June 1923.
In Sind 1,866 villages are said to have been depopulated. The
reporting of results of vaccination in Bushire has been discontinued
at the request of the Residency Surgeon there, for the reason that
" Bushire is a purely Persian town, administered by Persian officials
who keep no records of any kind and the preparation of a return
worth anything is impossible."

                        Changes amongst staff.

3.    During the year under report the office of the Director of
Public Health was held by Lieut.-Colonel H. M. H. Melhuish,
D.S.O., I.M.S., from 1st April to 29th March 1924 and for the
remaining two days by Lieut.-Colonel W.O'S. Murphy, I.M.S.
The 5 Assistant Directors of Public Health were the supervising
officers in the respective Vaccination Districts and the only changes
were transfers inter se. Thus Drs. Dalal and Munsiff were in
charge of the Southern and Western Registration Districts,
respectively, throughout, and for practically the whole year Dr. da
Gama held charge in the Central Registration District and Dr. Pinto
in Guzerat. In Sind Dr. Shiveshwarkar was in charge after 15th
April 1923 prior to which date the Officer in charge Public Health
Laboratory (Dr. F. Barretto) was A. D. P. H. in addition to his
own duties. Dr. R. W. Fisher was Director of the Vaccine
Institute, Belgaum, from 1st April to 25th October 1923, the date
preceding his death, when Dr. Dalal took over.

                              Retrenchment.

4.    Three District Local Boards selected vaccination as the
service in which they could most conveniently economise and one
of them, Thar and Parkar, insisted on reducing their vaccination

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