No. 651 OF 1873-74.
FROM

                  CAPTAIN G. H. TREVOR,

                                    Second Assistant Resident,

                                                      Hyderabad,
To

THE SANITARY COMMISSIONER,

                              Hyderabad Assigned Districts.

                  DATED HYDERABAD RESIDENCY, the 3rd June 1873.

SIR,

THE Resident in thanking you for your Report on Vaccination in
Berar during the year 1872-73, which he has perused with much interest,
does not think it necessary to enter into any detailed remarks on the results
exhibited. He highly appreciates your endeavours to show honest work,
though they rather detract from the credit brought by the figures of previous
years. It is annoying that Vaccinators will ' cook' returns, but it is satis-
factory to detect and punish such conduct.

2. The main points of the Report may be thus stated :—

The number of vaccine operations performed rose from 28,966 in 1871-72
to 33,734 in 1872-73: not quite 20 per cent. of this number refer to chil-
dren of tender years; 17 per cent. to babies under one year of age. The
ratio of successful to unsuccessful operations has declined from 85.9 to 82.6 ;
but after your discoveries of deluding figures, this decrease must be regard-
ed as more nominal than real.

The best results, relatively to the population of each district, were at-
tained in Bassim and Woon; the poorest in Akolah and Oomrawuttee.
This is not what might have been expected, and Mr. Saunders will direct
the attention of the Commissioners and District Officers to the fact.

It is true that Hindoos and Mahomedans have been shown to be more
backward in coming forward to be vaccinated than those who belong to
' other castes', or, in other words, that those who cannot construe the differ-
ence between advice and an order from Government officials, and whose
prejudices against vaccination are probably not so strong as those of Berar
Hindoos in general, yield themselves up, with their children, more readily
than others to the lancet of the Government Vaccinator. If the reason
why Akolah and Oomrawuttee are behindhand can be traced to this cir-
cumstance it is worth looking into. The: e are the districts where intelli-