'REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY FOR THE YEAR 1904-1905' [‎167v] (110/116)

BOMBAY ADMINISTRATION REPORT.
Chap. VI.
86
VITAL STATIS
TICS AND MEDI
CAL BELIEF.
6. Vaccination.
For details see Report
XVI—V accination—a
iport on Vaccination in the Bombay Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. for the year 1904-1905 and t u
ppended to the Judicial and Administrative Statistics of British India f 0 r ]qo
General,
1904.19«*'
Primary vaccination.
Re-vaccination.
Expenditure
Cattle disease.
Inoculation.
Veterinary
institutions.
Financial results.
Imports,
1. In British districts and in the Native States, under the supervision of the ^
Department there were 606,058 persons primarily vaccinated and 61,9 34< re-vaccinatel - 17
551,244 and 35,830, respectively, in the previous year. In total operations there was a U
of 80,918 or 13*78 per cent. Experiments were made with lanolinated lymph ^
glycerinated lymph mixed with chloroform. The latter was found to give better re u ^
percentage of success being only slightly below that obtained in animal vaccination andf
experiments are to be made with it. ; U1 ^r
2. Out of 606,058 primary vaccinations, 562,783 or 92*86 per cent, were succes f 1
number of unsuccessful cases was 8,468 and in 35,813 cases the result was unkii ? e
percentage of success excluding unknown cases was 98*59. Wn ‘
3. During the year under report 61,934 persons were re-vaccinated the per<w
success being 43*41. The result could not be ascertained in 27,965 instances ' ,1 ■^ eo
the operation failed. The percentage of infants protected by vaccination primarv or
to infants available fell from 79*87 in 1903-1904 to 74*71 in the year under report
4, Expenditure increased by Rs. 16,350 to Rs. 2,85,418.
while in 7^
7- Veterinary.
For details see Annual Report of the Civil Veterinary Department in the Bombay Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. for 1904.1905
Glanders and Farcy
Act.
In the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. proper 54 deaths were due to equine, and 1,336 deaths to bovine di«
respectively. Amongst equine diseases there were 50 eases of glanders and 2 of sum Am t
bovine diseases foot and mouth disease accounted for 66 deaths, black-quarter for 830'and,,” i
164 and other diseases for 276, giving a total of 1,336. There was no rinderpest tWhoit l’
Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. , although every enquiry was made to find out whether it existed or not In S,
the total. number of deaths was 571, of which 6 were from glanders, 48 from hiemorrkA
septicaemia, 10 from anthrax amongst cattle and 304 amongst goats, and 155 from nil
pneumonia due to an epidemic amongst goats in the Karachi district. There were 24 J*
rabies and as many deaths. u
No inoculations were performed in the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. proper as there was no rinderpest I.
bind 60 goats were inoculated against anthrax and 162 horses against glanders: of these ■
goat and six horses died* ;
the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. proper there were 18 dispensaries open at the end of the year against
1 / in the previous year. An additional dispensary was started at Nandurb4r in Khandesh as
an experimental measure. The total number of animals treated as in and out-patients was
,j 14 against 5,758 last year. In Sind there were five dispensaries at which 7,996eases
were treated. In addition to these, 1,048 cases were treated in the villages.
<Tn,-l T1 ! e 1 ' e , cei P t “ expenditure of veterinary dispensaries in the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. proper ml
i 1>07,1 " 8 anii Ils ' o3 > 499 respectively. The total cost of the department «i!
During the year 38 horses were admitted to the Lazaretto, as against 22 last year. 01
these 29 were found to be suffering from glanders, and were destroyed. Two horses sufferie
ii om .Lymphangitis epizootica were destroyed.
The number of horses, ponies, donkeys and mules imported rose from 8,251 to 9,4»
Tmon 1 ? °f t l ’ a t h . orses decllned > yMe those of Austro-Hungarian horses and mules ' ’
Imports of Australian horses remained stationary.
Fof
2, InBritist
us and <2/
was 6,358 and tlie
3, tawas
The mmhei of
'on
contrMog Rs,
70Q
A
^ The total
Twenty.