FROM

                  SURGEON-MAJOR C. LITTLE, M. D.,

                                                      Superintendent of Vaccination,

                                                                                   Hyderabad Assigned Districts,

To

                  L. S. SAUNDERS, ESQ., C. S.,

                                                                        Commissioner,

                                                                                          Hyderabad Assigned Districts.

SIR,

I have the honour to submit the Annual Vaccination Returns of the Hyder-
abad Assigned Districts for the year 1885-86, together with a brief report on
the working of the department.

Establishment.

2. There was no change in the special vaccination staff during the
year, which was kept up to the full sanctioned
strength.

The Basim Municipality dispensed with the services of the vaccinator
employed by that body owing to the man's inefficiency, and as the work of the
Basim town was not sufficient for one man, it was undertaken by the special
vaccination department.

The conduct of the vaccinators was, on the whole, satisfactory; and consider-
ing the difficulties they often meet with, there is little or no friction between
these men and the villagers, which speaks creditably for the morale of the
department.

Seventeen punishments were inflicted during the year. One vaccinator
was reduced for bad work and sixteen were fined, one for disobedience to the
orders of his Superintendent, one for allowing his lymph to deteriorate, and the
remainder for slow progress.

Lymph.

3. Both humanized and animal lymph were kept up throughout the year;

but at the commencement of the cold weather
some tubes of animal lymph were obtained from
Bombay. This lymph was propagated successfully at Amraoti, and supplies
sent out to each district, animal vaccination being kept up at head-quarters till
each Superintendent reported that he had established a good working supply in
his district. In some districts a continuous supply of animal lymph has been
kept up throughout the year; but as there is often difficulty in getting a conti-
nuous supply of calves this is not insisted on, since animal lymph can generally
be obtained from the Superintendent of Vaccination, Presidency Circle, Bombay,
free of cost.

Season's work.

4. In the year under report the aggregate number of operations performed
by all establishments, special vaccination establish-
ment, and dispensaries, was 97,654, as compared
with 101,134 in the previous year, being a decrease of 3,480. The total number
of successful primary operations was 93,027, as against 95,805, and the ratio of
success 95.4, compared with 94.9 in 1884-85.

The falling-off in the numbers vaccinated is attributable to 23 vaccinators
having been employed on cholera duty for varying periods up to three months.
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