66 SOCIAL SCIENTIST community, gender and age details of the 'patients'. D. Kumar, 'Unequal contenders, uneven ground: medical encounters in British India, 1820-1920', in A. Cunningham and B. Andrews (eds), Western Medicine as contested knowledge (Manchester, 1997), p. 176. Kumar is by no means the first, or the only one to subscribe to this view. 123. Vaccination Return on the Districts ofBihar and Orissa for the year 1912-1913(Ranchi, 1913), p. 5. 124. Kumar, 'Unequal contenders', p. 184. 125. A good example of this is provided by the Director of the Vaccine Institute in Belgaum, who, in a communication, declared that, 'All lymph prepared at the Local Government Board, Vaccine Lymph Establishment, Hendon, is tried on children previous to despatch to vaccinators, the experience there being similar to what we find at Belgaum.' See, letter from R.W. Fisher, Director, Vaccine Institute, Belgaum, to the Sanitary Commissioner, G.O.B., 29 January 1912, General Department Volume 157 of 1912, Compilation 721, M.S.A. 126. The geographical extent of the Saidapet test range was actually increased after August 1947. See, for instance, Report, King Institute, from 1 April to 31 March 1949 (Madras, 1950); Report, King Institute from 1 April 1949 to 31 March 1950 (Madras, 1951). The first protracted trials with monkeys in Madras is only reported as late as 1952-53. See, Report, King Institute from 1 April 1952 to 31 March 1953 (Madras, 1955).