Report on Vaccination in the Central Provinces
during the Season 1879-80.
In the concluding paragraph of his review on the Vaccination Report
for 1878-79, the Chief Commissioner was pleased to express a hope that " the
next year's returns may be found more satisfacrory," the matter was therefore
specially commended to the notice of all Civil Surgeons before the next season
had commenced. Useless men were weeded out; the work of those who had
done well was suitably acknowledged, whilst those who had done badly were
punished, and the result has been that seven districts only show a decrease
during the season under report; the remainder have returned increased opera-
tions.
2. In order, however, to compare fairly the results of both years, some
alterations in the figures for 1878-79, as set forth in " Statement I, Vaccination
Department" for that year, become necessary. By an oversight the operations
performed by Hospital Assistants in charge of dispensaries, also those performed
in Native states, were included in that statement. Again the work returned by
eight vaccinators in the Saugor district, who, later on in the year, were proved to
have systematically falsified their returns, was also shown therein. Eliminating
these two sources of error a corrected return has been prepared and is attached
to this report for comparison with that for the year under remark. The follow-
ing table then, prepared from these statements, shows the increase and decrease
in districts in 1879-80, as compared with the corrected results of the previous
year :—
District.
Saugor... ... ...
Damoh... ... ...
Jubbulpore ... ...
Narsinghpur... ...
Hoshangabad... ...
Nimar... ... ... ...
Mandla... ... ...
Betul... ... ...
Chbindwara... ...
Seoni... ... ...
Balaghat... ... ... ...
Bhandara... ... ...
Nagpur... ... ...
Wardha...
...
...
Chanda...
...
...
...
Raipur...
...
...
...
Bilaspur... ... ...
Sambalpur... ... ...
Total... ...
No. vaccinated,
1878-79.
5,285
7,594
12,778
18,302
14,951
7,130
9,186
18,156
14,603
16,113
6,344
14,349
17,741
9,552
19,902
20,302
19,170
15,843
2,42,301
No. vaccinated,
1879-80.
17,476
9,743
16,862
11,617
14,667
8,784
10,365
15,530
14,387
17,352
8,773
16,541
22,305
12,766
18,232
17,414
29,421
14,422
2,76,657
Increase.
12,191
2,149
4,084
...
...
1,654
1,179
...
...
1,239
2,429
2,192
4,564
3,214
...
...
10,251
...
34,356
Decrease.
...
...
...
1,685
284
...
...
2,626
216
...
...
...
...
...
1,670
2,888
...
1,421
...
The increase by the Vaccine Department then has been 34,356 persons or
276,657 as against 242,301, and the work done by Hospital Assistants has
exceeded that of the previous year by 1,172 operations ; the total increase thus
reached 35,528, whilst the establishment was increased by four vaccinators only.
3. Primary operations performed by vaccinators were 33,751 in excess of
the figures for the previous year, and re-vaccinations, which are mainly confined
to the Chhindwara district where they reached 5,336 out of a total of 7,060,
exceeded the figures for that year by 605. The number of infants successfully
vaccinated is returned at 25,287 in excess, and the excess children between
infancy and six years of age is given at 11,143. Bach vaccinator performed on
an average 155 operations in excess of the previous year's work: they have
20—7—80—30—310—260