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The Vaccine Institute, Belgaum.

A statement showing the results obtained with Belgaum lymph is given in Appendix A.

It must be borne in mind, when considering these figures, that every effort is made, in the districts concerned, to check results. Inspectors of Sanitation and Vaccination are on duty in each district and they carefully check the work of the vaccinators. These Inspectors are officials trained

Fig. 4.

The Chloroforming Apparatus
The Chloroforming Apparatus

The Chloroforming Apparatus

in Bombay, who have had to pass a searching examination and receive good pay. Their reports are, therefore, to be relied on. A Deputy Sanitary Commissioner is in charge of a number of districts and, during his tour of seven months of the year, he checks, personally, the vaccination work; and I am informed by these officers, that every reliance can be placed on the figures sent in. There are four Deputy Sanitary Commissioners