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8. Statement IV. shows that vaccination in the Central Provinces has
steadily progressed year by year. No less than 400,576 cases were successfully
performed, and the inspection in most districts of the Central Provinces is so
thorough that there can be no doubt these figures are substantially correct.
VACCINE INSPECTION.
Districts.
Saugor...
...
Damoh...
...
Jubbulpore...
...
Narsinghpur... ...
Hoshangabad... ...
Nimar...
...
Mandla...
...
Betul... ... ...
Chhindwara... ...
Seoni... ...
Balghat...
...
Bhandara...
...
Nagpur... ...
Wardha...
...
Chauda... ...
Raipur... ...
Bilaspur... ...
Sambalpur... ...
Total
Number of
days out
on tour.
By Civil Surgeon.
35
48
33
30
40
53
47
37
59
17
66
41
21
35
25
88
26
41
742
By Native Super.
itendent.
145
141
151
146
129
192
146
153
...
159
162
150
155
125
157
134
129
123
2,497
Number of
villages
inspected.
By Civil Surgeon.
212
294
121
441
220
325
381
217
574
64
393
181
106
85
224
393
81
239
4,551
By Native Super-
intendent.
669
591
808
458
646
572
538
412
...
1,026
547
767
454
540
672
899
793
437
10,832
Number of
vaccinated per-
sons inspected.
By Civil Surgeon.
4,543
5,107
1,747
6,005
3,091
6,450
5,897
1,961
5,859
631
6,441
1,961
2,408
632
2,786
8,368
1,474
8,477
73,832
By Native Super.
intendent.
11,423
7,945
11,618
6,017
7,586
13,062
11,352
4,235
...
10,476
11,282
9,569
6,653
9,621
7,438
17,551
17,430
14,478
1,77,780
Number of
successful
cases seen.
By Civil Surgeon.
4,327
4,930
1,556
5,899
2,801
5,931
5,785
1,736
5,565
541
5,999
1,754
2,109
536
2,482
7,470
1,358
8,318
60,097
By Native Super-
intendent.
10,135
7,371
9,537
5,837
6,645
12,472
10,907
3,734
...
9,050
10,044
9,285
5,934
8,822
6,642
16,230
11,457
14,258
1,58,360
Percentage of success as seen
on inspection by Civil sur-
geon.
95.24
96.53
89.06
98.23
90.61
91.95
98.10
88.52
91.98
85.73
93.10
89.44
87.58
84.81
89.08
89.00
92.13
98.12
93.57
Percentage of success as re-
turned by vaccinators.
97.93
97.38
98.05
99.34
97.82
97.75
98.51
96.72
99.80
97.14
98.11
98.39
96.99
96.32
94.13
94.21
96.70
99.16
97.21
Percentage of success on in.
spection by Native Super.
intendent.
88.72
92.77
82.08
97.01
87.59
95.48
96.07
88.17
...
86.27
89.04
97.03
89.19
91.69
89.29
92.47
65.73
98.52
89.10
9. In all the districts except Chhindwara there are two inspecting officers;
the Civil Surgeon, (or in the three districts of Saugor, Jubbulpore and Nagpur,
an Assistant Surgeon, specially appointed for that duty), and the Native Super-
intendent of vaccination. In Chhindwara there is no Native Superintendent.
These two officers between them ought to see if possible at least half the total
number of operations performed, and this has been done in Saugor, Damoh,
Narsinghpur, Hoshangabad, Nimar, Mandla, Seoni, Balaghat, Bhandara, Bilas
pur and Sambalpur. It has not been done in Jubbulpore, Betul, Chhindwara,
Nagpur and Raipur. In Raipur this may be accounted for by the enormous
number of operations performed, and in Chhindwara by the absence of a Native
Superintendent. With regard to the other three districts, Jubbulpore, Betul and
Nagpur, it is to be hoped that the inspecting officers will be able to see more
cases next year than they have done this year.
The temptation to a vaccinator to send in fictitious returns is very great;
and if he thought his work was not likely to be thoroughly inspected, I am
afraid many a vaccinator would yield to the temptation.
In Damoh, Mandla and Nimar the number seen by the two inspecting
officers is greater than the number vaccinated, so that some cases must have been
seen by both officers, not by one only.
10. With regard to the column giving percentage of success it must
always be remembered that every now and then a doubtful case will occur.
There is no column for doubtful, so every case must be entered successful or
unsuccessful, and in practice it inevitably occurs that what one honest and care-
ful Inspector enters in the tables as successful, another would have entered as
unsuccessful.