10                            CALCUTTA AND ITS SUBURBS.

Memorandum by H. B. BUCKLE, ESQ., Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, Presidency
                Circle,—(No. 42 E, dated Fort William, the 23rd May 1873.)

FORWARDS the returns and reports of the Presidency Vaccine Department for the year
ending 31st March 1873, submitted by the Superintendent General of Vaccination.

2.    Dr. Charles has furnished full information of the amount of work done, and of
the quality and success of the vaccination, and has entered upon details of the kind of
opposition met with, and the methods adopted to overcome objections; and the conclusion
is the large amount of work remaining to be accomplished, and the extent of the district
in the centre of Calcutta still unprotected.

3.    The remarks on vaccine operations in Calcutta and in the Mofussil, contrasting the
two together, do not lead to any practical results ; it is an object to know the cost and the
amount of work done in different circles, but more as a guide for general reference than
with the view of assimilating operations which have to be each carried on with reference
to respective localities. The extent of the interests involved make it necessary that
more intimate supervision should be devoted to a large city than to a rural district. And
the number of deaths from small-pox, (nineteen) which information Dr. Charles has
obtained probably through the Police, is a very good criterion of the amount of protection
afforded.

4.    The result of Dr. Charles' experiments on vaccination from crusts are in accor-
dance with all previous experience.