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The following statement compares the inspection work done by each
Superintendent:—
TABLE No. 6.—Inspection work of District Superintendents of Vaccination during 1896-97.
District.
Amraoti
...
Ellichpur ...
Wun ...
Basim ...
Akola ...
Buldana ...
Total ...
Total number vaccinated.
Primary.
21,754
13,110
13,112
13,467
20,315
16,836
98,594
Re-vac¬
cination.
6,329
2,295
2,372
1,856
5,323
3,542
21,717
Total.
28,083
15,405
15,284
15,323
25,638
20,378
120,111
Total number verified.
Primary.
11,412
8,073
7,217
7,337
11,247
9,815
55,101
vaccina¬
tion.
292
563
184
679
492
479
2,689
Total.
11,704
8,636
7,401
8,016
11,739
10,294
57,790
No. of
villages
visited by
Superin¬
tendents.
668
528
631
518
588
656
3,589
No. of
miles tra-
velled
during
the year.
2,647
1,755
2,103
1,568
2,375
1,792
12,240
In regard to total number inspected, Superintendent Ramrutten of the
Akola district comes first and Superintendent Murad Ali of the Amraoti dis-
trict second. Amraoti district is first in the number of villages visited by
Superintendent, while Mr. Dinkur Rao of Buldana district comes second.
Amraoti Superintendent again heads the list in respect of the number of miles
travelled with the Akola Superintendent second.
In order of merit the work of District Superintendents is therefore as
follows:—
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Superintendent Murad Ali, Amraoti district.
„
Ramrutten, Akola district.
„
Dinkur Rao, Buldana district.
„
Mahadeo Raoy Wun district.
„
Gopal Balaji, Ellichpur district.
„
Gungadhar, Basim district.
Superintendent Gungadhar of Basim might easily have done better.
Lymph supply.
16. In paragraph 4 of Resident's order on last year's report, it is directed
that "more detailed information, especially as to
the method of itineration and the keep and care
of the calves, should be given in the report for 1896-97."
Since I first entered upon the duties of the Sanitary Commissioner's office
in October 1878, animal lymph obtained from the cow has been more or less
used in the province. It was first tried for the purpose of renewing our supply
and starting the season's operations, and we were thus able to dispense with the
annual supplies of English lymph furnished by Government for this purpose.
The procedure in this respect followed in Berar was brought to the notice of
other Governments and Administration, —vide paragraph 4 of Home Depart-
ment No. 68, dated 8th March 1882.
After a time, when Superintendents and Vaccinators became more skilled
and experienced in animal vaccination, the work of the province came to be
carried on partly with animal and partly with humanized lymp until 1890, when
a scare was raised as to the possibility of transmitting leprosy through the
medium of humanized lymph. Arm to arm vaccination was then completely
abandoned, and the work carried on entirely with lymph propagated from the
cow or buffalo. The people of the province were by this time quite accustom-
ed to the idea of cow vaccination which had been thus gradually and quietly
introduced, and there was no difficulty experienced in substituting animal for
humanized lymph ; indeed, native feeling had come to prefer the animal lymph,
for they were quick to perceive that their children suffered less when cow lymph
was used; that it either took or failed without subsequent ulceration, whereas
the arm to arm method in the hands of a careless vaccinator not infrequently
resulted in severe ulceration and inflammation of the child's arm. Over and
over again have the villagers told me this, and personally I seldom or ever see
now the ulcerated and inflamed arms which were but too common under the