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matter to Nagpore, Saugor, Agra, and Bombay, and it was lymph given by
Doctor Martin, Superintendent of Vaccination at Bombay, that first took.
Two Vaccinators have been working for 5 months, viz , from November
to the end of March. The accompanying statement shows the result of their
labours at Hoshungabad and Hurda. The Native Doctor at Seonee operated on
a few, but the Native Doctor at Sohagpore did nothing in this line, and when
taxed with this failing, stated he was much opposed by the Natives and the
Tehseeldar gave him no support. This I belįeve to be true, for when I mentioned
the subject to the Tehseeldar, he stated the people were very averse to vaccination
and he could not persuade them to have their children vaccinated.
The assistance given at Seonee too, was very little, and the same excuse-
was made by the Extra-Assistant Commissioner.
At Hurda, Mr. MacGeorge, the Assistant Commissioner, took an
interest in spreading the knowledge of the good to be obtained from this opera
tion, and the Vaccinator had little opposition shown him.
But at Hoshungabad a good deal of antipathy had to be overcome. At
some villages as Etarsee and Nymsandya, the Vaccinator in the first instance
was turned away, and when the Civil Surgeon went he had no better success and
was obliged to complain of the reception given him, when the Tehseeldar tried
his persuasive powers and a few children were operated upon.
To circumscribe these operations as much as possible and bring them
within the observation of the Civil Surgeon, at the commencement of the season,
a list of 42 villages having a radius of 20 miles from the Sudder Station was
given to the Hoshungabad Vaccinator to which he was to confine his labours ;
of these 36 were visited by him. Of these villages the Civil Surgeon visited
27 and saw the work, and it was on these occasions that the re-vaccinations were
performed.
The statement taken as a whole is not satisfactory, but it must be
remembered that for the two previous years small-pox had been prevalent and
a large proportion of the children had taken the disease naturally ; then again it
was thought better to limit the sphere of the Hoshungabad Vaccinator and see
the work properly done, rather than extend it over a large surface with no super
vision; hence this man has not, perhaps, vaccinated so many as he might have
done had he been allowed a larger range."
23. In the Saugor District the number vaccinated was 2,000 in excess
of the previous year, 8,133 having been vaccinated by two Vaccinators, the
Sub-Assistant Surgeon in charge of the City Hospital, and the Native Doctors at
the Dispensaries in the District. The Civil Surgeon reports favourably of the
work done in town of Saugor and the immediate neighbourhood, but from
the nature of his duties he is unable to bestow much supervision over the work
in the district, and the results of his inspections are not given.
24. In Seonee 3,864 children were vaccinated by three Vaccinators at the
three Dispensaries in the district, and Doctor Barter reports, on the whole,
favourably of the work done.
25. In the other districts of the Provinces the number of vaccinations
has been smaller than in the previous year.
In some districts, as at Jubbulpore and Raepore, this has been due to
the Civil Surgeons having contracted their field of operations in compliance
with the Chief Commissioner's Circular No. 83, dated 2nd September, and in
order to superintend the operations more closely.