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proves. Last year the lymph supplied from England was not so
successful as usual and no reason can be given for it. The Secretary
of State might be requested to communicate the source of each
supply sent out.

12.     Animal vaccination is still carried on, and is very much
esteemed in Bombay ; and though the percentage of success is not so
high as when human lymph is used, still it must always be viewed
as a valuable adjunct ; as here, few persons allow lymph to be taken
from the vesicles on their children, and some parents prefer the
animal to human lymph.

13.     Although there has been an increase in the total expendi-
ture of the department, the cost of each successful vaccination has
been less by 6 pies than in the preceding year.

14.     The progress of vaccination is satisfactory in all Govern-
ment districts, except Belgaum and Dharwad. A further extension
would follow an increase in the number of vaccinators there, and
the Superintendent General wishes the attention of the Collectors
called to the advisability of having more than one taluka vaccinator
where the population exceeds 100,000. In Native States, the pro-
gress has been satisfactory, and promises further improvement.
Although vaccination at dispensaries may not be all that can be
desired, still some progress has been made and more will gradually
follow. I am glad to observe that several of the officers in charge
of dispensaries have been favourably noticed by Dr. Pinkerton, espe-
cially Assistant Surgeon Mackenzie and Honorary Surgeon Sinclair.

15.     The Superintendent General views with anxiety and fore-
boding of ill the falling off in the numbers vaccinated in Bombay,
and he is of opinion this can be met only by a compulsory Vacci-
nation Act. Certainly the results are altogether disproportionate
to the cost. The reason of this is evidently due chiefly to there
being a Superintendent to so small a circle as Bombay Presidency
Circle is, his pay alone adding about 7 annas to the cost of each
successful case. Speaking generally, it is difficult for a vaccinator
in a city to vaccinate as many as he can do in a rural district.

16.    As regards inoculation, Dr. Turnbull notices that it had
been practised in the Wái Táluká, but the Superintendent General
is unable to say to what extent. It is evident there could have been,
very little of it.

17.     The Superintendent General thinks no reliance can be
placed on the record of deaths from small-pox for statistical purposes.

18.     Dr. Pinkerton estimates the population at 24½ millions,
which includes the civil population of Mhow, Nimach, and Nasirabad,
and he thinks there are at least 735,000 births per annum. After
writing off 1/13th of the births for deaths, &c., he considers the depart-