50
COORG
(now increased to 7 grains) was sold through the agency of post offices
to the number of 48,756 packets in 1903-4.
There are 8 vaccinators, two employed in Mercara and Virarajendra-
pet under the municipalities, and the others in rural areas. Vaccina-
tion is also performed by the ordinary medical staff of the Mercara
jail and the dispensaries. The annual average number of successful
vaccinations for fifteen years ending 1901 was 8,496, and the average
annual ratio of deaths from small-pox for the same period one per
r,ooo of the population.
MEDICAL STATISTICS, COORG
1881. 18g1. 1901. 1904-
Hospitals, &c.
Number of civil hospitals and dispen-
8.
saves 2 4 7
Average daily number of-
48
(a) In-patients. 28 2;; 30
(b) Out-patients 162 131 197 tot
Income from-
(a) Government payments . Rs. 3,213 1,543 31336 6,163
(b) Local and municipal payments Rs. 268 7,817 10,231 6,895
(c) Fees, endowments, and other
sources . . Rs. 3,647 2,004 1,764 1,195
Expenditure-
(a) Establishment . Rs. 2,207 4,331 8,178 8,085
(b) Medicine, diet, buildings, &c. Rs. 5,240 7,033 7,153 6,168
Vaccinalion.
Population among whom carried on 4,887 8,237 12,049 1So,6o7
Number of successful operations . 4,404 7,699 10,863 9,659
Ratio per i,ooo of population 2410 40-18 6o.o2 .5201
Total expenditure on vaccination Rs. 1,174 2,538 2,836 2,769
Cost per successful case . Rs. 0-4-3 0-4-6 0-4-4 0-4-8
The first survey was made for merely geographical purposes by
Lieutenant Conner in 181; . A topographical survey of the Province,
and also a survey of all coffee estates held under the
Survey. Waste Land Rules, was made between 1862 and 1874
by the Madras Revenue Survey. In 1885 it was proposed to make
a complete survey and settlement on the Bombay system, to be carried
out by the Mysore Revenue Survey. Work began at the end of 1887
and continued till May, 1888, in which time 82 villages with an area of
23,549 acres had been measured. But on financial grounds further
operations were stopped, and in 1890 another scheme, similar to one
which had been successful in the United Provinces, was adopted. The
survey was concluded in October, 189 2 ; but the demarcation of details,
such as subdivisions of holdings and the preparation of complete
records, was carried on by the Land Record department, and brought
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