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over an area of 6,000 square miles of country most of which is hill and jungle,
I think it will be allowed that Mr. Harrison has done good work. Of the
efficacy of the vaccination that has been performed, the remarkable immunity
of the district from small-pox may be taken as evidence. Small-pox broke out in
the village of Talputtia in the Lupunga circle in the end of April, and in the
course of the next few weeks 99 cases occurred in a population of 1,750 and of
these 8 died in the course of May and June. As soon as information of the
out-break was received, Vaccinators were sent out and all the children in the
neighbouring villages were vaccinated; the epidemic was thus prevented from
spreading and from that time till the end of the year one death only was reported
from the whole district.
12. Vaccination has been carried on more or less in all districts by local
Vaccinators under the supervision of Civil Surgeons ; the results are shown in
Table V.
13. An increase in the number of vaccine operations appears in the
returns from the districts of the Nagpore Division, chiefly from Nagpore, Chanda,
and Wurdah. In the Vaccination Report for 1868-69 it was notified that
operations would not in future be carried on in the Nagpore District by the special
establishment, and the District was left to Municipal Vaccinators. In the
Wurdah District also operations by the establishment were brought to a close
in the season of 1868-69, it was therefore necessary to make provision as far as
means were available to keep up and extend the amount of protection that had
been effected by the special establishment, particularly as at the end of the
season of 1868-69, small-pox was becoming prevalent in the northern part of the
District. Accordingly in August last, the Commissioner of the Division addressed
the Deputy Commissioner on the subject, calling for increased action in the work
of vaccination, at the same time pointing out the necessity for arranging for the
due supervision of the work.
14. The results have been on the whole satisfactory. From the Nagpore
District 16,662 operations have been returned of which 80 per cent were success-
ful ; of this number 4,788 were performed in the city of Nagpore under the
constant supervision of the Civil Surgeon, who is able to affirm that " the true
vaccine disease was established at first and has since been carefully kept up.
As a rule, 6 vesicles were raised in each case, and he has therefore no doubt
that a very considerable degree of protection has been secured in Nagpore."
From the nature of his duties as Civil Surgeon of an important Station,
Doctor Beatson is unable to afford much time for District work, and he is there-
fore unable to bestow much supervision on vaccine operations performed in the
different parts of the district. He has reason to believe that the work at
Oomrair and Boree was good, but he was not quite satisfied with the results of
his inspection at Mohpa.
In the town of Oomrair and the villages in the neighbourhood, vaccine
operations have been carried on for the last 3 years by the Native Doctor with
the assistance of a Municipal vaccinator, and during the last 2 years the town
has been almost free of small-pox. When I inspected it in December last,
I found that nearly all the younger children I could examine had been vacci-
nated and out of 38 boys in the branch school from 6 to 8 years of age 23 had
vaccination scars, 11 had small-pox in infancy and 4 only were unprotected.
15. The number vaccinated by the special establishment in the districts
of Nagpore and Chindwara are not shown separately in the annual statement
for the year 1867-68, but taking the proportion of the operations performed
in the two districts in the previous year, the number vaccinated by the esta-
blishment in the two years 1866-67 and 1867-68 would have been 35,489. Add to
this 30,082 operations performed by the Municipal vaccinators in the same two