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                                 CHAPTER III.

                                          EXPENDITURE.

                                      STATEMENT No. III.
Increased expenditure explained.

28. This statement shows the cost of the work-
ing of the department during the year. It amounts
to Rupees 14,881-14-0, as against Rupees 10,973-15-9 in its predecessor. The aver-
age cost per each successful case in 1872-73 being 7 annas, and in 1871-72, 6 annas.
The difference in excess in the year under report is accounted for thus :—(1) There
are more Superintendents on higher pay; (2) there are more vaccinators; (3)
many of them—when compared with the previous year—draw pay during the
recess; and (4) owing to small-pox being prevalent at the close of the season it
was, in some places, so difficult to get children to operate on that the vaccinators
work almost came to a stand still. To give an idea of the extent to which small-
pox at times rages in a village, I need only produce the following figures for one
visited:—

Abstract of expenditure as compared
with 1871-72.

29. The following is an abstract of the expendi-
ture for the two years, and calls for no special re--
marks :—

Full proportion of 1st and 2nd Class
vaccinators not yet entertained.

30. The proportion of 1st and 2nd Class Vac-
cinators is not yet up to the sanctioned scale, nor
are there any Superintendents on the higher grade of salaries; when they are,
the expenditure will be more.