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the people of that district have from the first been in the habit of collecting at
central points in view to inspection; Dr. Townsend approved of the system
there, and it was believed that little or no hardship resulted. In the Mandla,
Jubbulpore and Balaghat districts, however, it is not so, and in these districts
sixteen and eleven villages a day respectively are reported to have been examined.
To visit and carefully inspect the children in eleven villages on an average daily
is rather more than should be attempted, as such rapid movements are apt to
result in imperfect inspection. Again inspecting officers are expected to converse
with the people in regard to the matter in hand, to explain its object, to exert
their influence with those who object to vaccination, as well as to see generally
to the sanitarv condition of the villages visited, and make some useful observa-
tions in regard thereto; but this is out of the question when an officer rushes
about from village to village, the people no sooner see him than he is gone, and
much of the good that would otherwise attach to his visit is lost. Dr. Kidd
spent only 20 days in the interior of his district, and in that time examined
6,173 persons; Dr. Kidd's energy is beyond question, but I think his visits
would have been productive of mora good if he had travelled less rapidly, indeed
he visited 79 villages in one circle in four days.
Districts.
Saugor... ...
Damoh... ...
Jubbulpore... ...
Narsinghpur... ... ...
Hoshangabad... ...
Nimar... ...
Mandla... ...
Betul... ...
Chhindwara... ... ...
Seoni... ...
Balaghat... ...
Bhandara... ...
Nagpur... ...
Wardha... ...
Chanda... ...
Raipur... ...
Bilaspur... ...
Sambalpur... ...
Total ...
Number of
days out on
tour.
By Civil Surgeon.
50
41
52
26
31
40
20
64
44
11
25
37
...
30
16
2
27
47
563
By Native Superinten-
dent.
99
124
166
148
144
129
129
151
176
140
94
131
145
138
167
121
171
141
2,514
Number of villa-
ges inspected.
By Civil Surgeon.
322
277
598
102
193
280
325
443
698
102
281
196
...
167
135
14
207
277
4,617
By Native Superinten-
dent.
439
320
867
348
520
318
402
615
551
728
351
625
472
547
580
469
1,163
403
9,718
Number of vaccina-
ted persons inspected.
By Civil Surgeon.
3,909
4,417
3,951
1,924
2,792
3,559
6,173
6,167
6,623
842
3,474
1,767
...
1,058
2,198
210
6,769
8,934
64,767
By Native Superinten-
dent.
3,356
4,470
6,874
5,776
8,704
4,925
7,453
7,973
5,767
9,483
4,869
6,258
6,839
4,015
8,280
6,414
22,675
14,274
1,38,405
Number of successful
cases seen.
By Civil Surgeon.
3,444
4,228
3,498
1,725
2,264
3,366
5,711
5,656
5,395
663
3,178
1,627
...
952
1,681
164
6,253
8,852
58,657
By Native Superinten-
dent.
2,612
4,219
6,051
5,525
7,058
4,744
7,097
7,502
5,240
8,106
4,420
5,992
6,303
3,806
7,618
5,689
19,544
14,154
1,25,680
Percentage of success as seen on
inspection by Civil Surgeon.
88.10
95.72
88.53
89.65
81.09
94.58
92.51
91.71
81.46
78.74
91.48
92.07
...
89.99
76.48
78.10
92.38
99.10
90.57
Percentage of success as returned
by Vaccinators.
94.29
96.38
95.71
99.13
97.77
97.41
96.32
97.72
99.94
95.51
95.44
96.46
96.37
91.49
94.01
95.71
94.73
99.38
96.10
Percentage of success on inspection
by Native Superintendent.
77.83
94.39
88.03
95.66
81.09
96.32
95.22
94.09
90.86
85.48
90.77
95.74
92.16
94.80
92.00
88.69
86.19
99.15
90.80
9. The Assistant Surgeon who inspected in the Jubbulpore district
visited 78 villages in five days in one circle, and the Civil Medical officer in
Balaghat, 71 villages in four ; this could only be done by worrying the people
with journeys to other villages in view to inspection or by hastily slurring
over the inspection work without touching the other matters 1 have alluded to;
this action should certainly not recur.
10. On the other hand the time spent by the Civil Surgeon of Narsingh-
pur in the interior, 26 days, was hardly sufficient, especially as he was only able
to spend 16 days on inspection work in 1878; the number of children seen in
both years reached only 2,472, and the number of villages inspected 124; it is
a pity Doctor Mayne could not have arranged to see a little more of the work.