No. 3971.

FROM

                              THE OFFG. SECY. TO THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER,

                                                                                                OUDH, Lucknow,

To

                              G. S. SUTHERLAND, ESQ.,

                                                SUPERINTENDENT OF VACCINATION,

                                                                                          OUDH, LUCKNOW.

                              Dated Lucknow, the 14th July 1874.

SIR,

GENL. DEPARTMENT.

I AM directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 1675,
dated the 6th June, submitting your Annual Report on Vaccination in
the Province of Oudh, for the year 1873-74.

2.     Owing to the supply of vaccine material from England not
arriving in proper time, vaccine operations were delayed at the
commencement of the season. But, notwithstanding this misfortune,
the number of vaccinations increased from 19,170 to 30,409. The
number of infants vaccinated rose from 4,669 to 10,680.

3.     The Chief Commissioner observes that all efforts to cultivate
the virus from the crusts of the previous season were unsuccessful; and
that for material wherewith to commence the operations of the season
you were indebted to the Superintendent General of Vaccination,
North-Western Provinces.

4.     The illness of the Deputy Superintendent during the vaccination
season was unfortunate.

5.    Notwithstanding the remarks of the Deputy Commissioner of
Gonda, referred to in para. 3 of your report, it appears that 469 children
were vaccinated in that district; Sir George Couper trusts that they were
not all operated on against the wishes of their parents.

Para. 6.

6.     Cases of re-vaccination fell from 452 to 172. The number of
successful cases recorded at Lucknow seems too good to be true.

7.    The average number of persons vaccinated by each vaccinator
has risen from 355 to 553.

8.    There is no dispensary vaccination in Oudh, and I am to suggest
for your consideration, whether it would not be useful to supply the
Hospital Assistants in charge of branch dispensaries with lymph. All
these men are, the Chief Commissioner apprehends, quite capable of
performing the operation, and to some of them people would possibly bring
their children to be vaccinated. At Sundila there is a dispensary, and
the Chief Commissioner has heard that some native gentlemen have
expressed regret that, no one is vaccinated there.