32                                                                             REPORT ON VACCINATION.

                                                                                      CIVIL DISPENSARIES.

Two Vaccinators (one in the Old and the other in the New Town) of
Cuddalore worked throughout the year under the immediate supervision of the
Medical Officers in charge of these institutions. They show a total of 584
operations with a percentage of 77.4 of success, and the results in 120 cases were
unsuccessful. 55 infants under one year of age were successfully operated on
during the year. The particulars of their work are given below :—

                                MUNICIPALITIES.

There are in all 47 Municipalities in this Presidency with 65 Vaccinators
employed by them. The returns from some of the Municipalities have been
received very late during the year, although they were called for urgently; and in a
few of them the returns were received very irregularly, not in the form required by
this department. Most of the returns do not show the cost of vaccination. No
Vaccinators are employed in the Municipalities of Mettapolliem and Gooty. The
total work performed in all the Municipalities amounts to 59,288 operations,
showing a marked increase of 18,116 cases when compared with the work of the
former year. In some Municipalities the Vaccinators were deputed to attend on
cholera patients. The particulars of work done in the several Municipalities are
shown in the Appendix No. I.

                                  RAILWAYS.

The Railway Apothecaries show a total of 10 operations during the year,
comprising 8 males and 2 females, with a percentage of 70 of success. On
comparison with the work of the preceding year there is a falling off of 47 cases,
for which no explanation is offered. Only one subject was successfully vaccinated
under one year of age.