MUNICIPAL DEPARTMENT.

                                         SANITATION.

                      CALCUTTA, THE 25TH AUGUST 1889.

                                         RESOLUTION.

READ—

The brief notes on vaccination in Bengal for 1888-89 by the Sanitary Commissioner,
Bengal.

Read also—

The Report of the previous year incorporated with the Sanitary Report, and the
Resolution recorded on it.

Under the orders contained in the Resolution of the Government of India,
in the Home Department, No. 28—1579-95, dated the 15th July 1887, the
vaccination report, which had previously been incorporated in the annual report
of the Sanitary Commissioner, has been excluded from it, and will in future be
submitted triennially, only brief notes on vaccination with statistical returns
being submitted for the two intervening years. The note for 1888-89 and the
returns have been submitted by Dr. W. H. Gregg, who assumed charge of the
department on the 25th August 1888 in succession to Dr. Lidderdale, who has
retired from the service.

The following table shows the total number of primary vaccinations per-
formed in 1888-89 as compared with those for 1887-88:—

There has been an increase of 125,918 operations during the year. The
Lieutenant-Governor notices with satisfaction an increase of 6,115 in vaccina-
tions in municipalities, which had shown a steady decline since the year 1884-85.

The following table shows the strength of the working establishment in
1888-89 and the previous year:—

The total cost of vaccination was Rs. 1,67,790-3, against Rs. 1,57,346-8-2
in the previous year, but the average cost of each successful case was the same,
viz., 1 anna 6 pie.

Vaccination was for the first time introduced into the district of Chittagong,
and up to the close of the year 8 out of 13 thanas of that district had been pro-