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were then moved into the Chanda District, the third continued to work in
Bhundara till the middle of March, when it was transferred to the Wurrora
Sub-division of Chanda.
In Bhundara due assistance was rendered to the Vaccinators by the
local authorities and no active opposition appears to have been offered by the
people. 31,011 persons were vaccinated or 41 per 1,000 of the total population.
At the last Census the proportion of the population under 14 years of age was
40 per 100; the number vaccinated would, therefore, amount to about 10 per cent
of the juvenile portion of the population. In former years, vaccine operations
had been confined to the Sudder town and immediate neighbourhood, but the
extent to which this infant population had previously suffered from small-pox,
or the ratio of the number vaccinated this year to the unprotected portion of the
population cannot be estimated.
In the Berhamporee Sub-division the Vaccinators were fairly successful
in carrying on operations, but in the Mhool Tehseel the Tehsecldar happened to
be absent and the Vaccinators were unable to effect much.
7. Compared with the previous year, the returns show a diminution of
8,152 in the number of operations or 4,209 in the number successful.
This diminution is in a great measure owing to the date of making up
the returns having been changed from the 30th April to the 31st March, so that
the returns for this year include the operations of 11 months only. Up to
March, when the establishment was at work in the populous District of Bhundara,
the operations had considerably exceeded the number returned in the corres-
ponding months of the previous year, but in March, when operations were carried
on among the more scattered population of the Chanda District, the number
diminished. Chanda moreover, had been severely ravaged by small-pox in the
previous year and there were consequently fewer children unprotected.
8. The ratio of successful cases per cent was 88.5 or 5 per cent in excess
of the average of former years. The ratio of success varied under different
vaccinators, but it continued high throughout the season. In the city of
Nagpore operations have been continued up to the present time with no diminu-
tion in the ratio of successful cases, but since the beginning of the month, the
vesicle in many cases attains its perfect development rather more rapidly on
the 6th or 7th day instead of on the 7th or 8th.
9. The establishment has worked well through the season, but a vaccina-
tor having preferred a' complaint against Native Superintendent Nuzeer Ally
of his having taken money from him, I enquired into the matter and finding
not only that the charge was true in the case brought to notice, but also
that he had taken money from all the vaccinators under him, I thought it
right to dismiss him though he had been well reported in previous Report.
10. The success of the special establishment sanctioned in 1868 for carry-
ing on vaccine operations in Sumbulpore under the Civil Surgeon had been so
remarkable that sanction for its continuance through another year was obtained.
The results of this year's operation have even exceeded those of the first year,
and I would draw special attention to Mr. Harrison's report which is appended.
11. The district of Sumbulpore affords an instance which is, I believe,
unique of the whole population of a tract of country giving up inoculation for
vaccination. In the course of the last two years 61,127 persons have been
vaccinated out of a population of 452,348, equal to 13.5 per cent of the total
population or 30 per cent of the population under 14 years of age, and when it
is considered that out of 900 villages in which these operations were performed
in the two years. Doctor Harrison was able to visit upwards of 700 scattered