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of work done in this district is very small, and yet the staff is large as compared
with other parts of the Province. To illustrate more clearly my meaning I ap-
pend a table showing the particulars of 6 districts as to area, population, number
of villages and vaccination staff.
Name of District.
Betul ...
Balaghat ...
Chanda ...
Narsinghpur ...
Nimar ...
Seoni ...
Population, census
1872.
278,857
280,101
481,215
339,395
211,224
292,178
Area in square
miles.
4,042
3,135
6,302
1,916
3,345
2,586
No. of villages.
1,260
1,043
1,590
966
582
1,444
No. of vaccinators.
8
4
9
8
6
8
Proportion of po-
pulation to each
vaccinator.
34,857
70,020
53,468
42,424
35,204
36,522
No. of villages to
each vaccinator.
157
261
176
121
97
180
Area insquare
miles to each
vaccinator.
505
784
700
239
558
323
No. of operations
by vaccinators.
10,289
9,061
17,751
15,251
8,805
16,465
Average number of
operations by each
vaccinator.
1286.1
2265.2
1972.3
1906.4
1467.5
2058.1
I have not sufficient local knowledge as yet to give any decided opinion, but
judging from the above table it would appear as if the staff might profitably be
reduced in some districts and a corresponding increase made in others.
Staff.—8 Vaccinators, 1 Native Superintendent, Average number of opera-
tions performed by each Vaccinators 1,286.
The Native Superintendent's conduct is well reported on. He is said to be
efficient and popular with the inhabitants.
17. Chhindwara.—The vaccination operations in this district are conducted
by the Civil Surgeon himself without the aid of a Native Superintendent, who
was I understand removed at the request of Mr. Price, as being useless. A good
supply of lymph was kept up all through the non-working season, and with this
operations were commenced; later on some English tubes were received which
proved successful, and it was principally from this supply that the bulk of the
work was done. The number of operations performed was 16,117, being 3,394
in excess of the former year's out-turn. The percentage of successful cases 99.75
is very high. Mr. Price says, however, he has no hesitation in accepting the
figures as correct, as in very few instances during his inspection did he find any-
incorrect entries made in the registers or village lists. He considers that
" when" arm to arm '' vaccination is properly carried out in healthy children
there should be no unsuccessful cases." The fact of his holding these views
will perhaps partly account for his easy acceptance of his vaccinators' figuers.
There can be no doubt, however, that a great deal of good work has been
done. His report is a very full one and he seems to take a lively interest in
the work of vaccination, and, as the Commissioner remarks, has done much to
make vaccination popular with the people.
Staff.—7 vaccinators, Average number of operations by each vaccinator
2,302.4.
18. Seoni.—121 children were vaccinated during the non-working season,
and an ample supply of lymph kept up for the cold weather; English lymph was
-also sent from the Sanitary Commissioner's office early in October, but proved
unsuccessful. 16,704 operations with 97.24 per cent successful were performed
by the regular staff against 12,973 of the previous season, which may be con-
sidered satisfactory. Of the 8 vaccinators employed only 2 fell short of 2,000
operations. The Superintendent vaccinated only 239 children. The Civil Sur-
geon reports favourably of his work.