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83. Raipur.—The lymph supply was kept up all the year, but was furnished
chiefly from English supplies sent from the Sanitary Commissioner's office.
The district was divided into 18 circles for the past season's work.
The decrease in the number of operations was due to short work by 8
vaccinates. Several of the vaccinators have vaccinated very few children under 1
year, alleging as the reason that vaccination being introduced for the first time, the
people did not let their infants be operated on. The Civil Surgeon and Native
Superintendent confirm this statement, and they further state that vaccination in
children between 4 and 5 months old was not so successful as in older children.
A result which they attribute to the practice of rubbing their bodies with oil,
which is observed all over the district.
The Civil Surgeon was on tour only 32 days, a short time for the amount
of work to be inspected. He thinks that with the exception of Brahmins,
Rajputs, and Bunniahs, all castes have got over their prejudice to vaccination,
in which opinion the Native Superintendent agrees.
The Native Superintendent was on tour 123 days.
Dispensary vaccination at the out-station dispensaries shows a considerable
increase, and the work was good; but though that done by the Hospital Assist-
ants in the Sadr did not show such an increase, and was altogether not so satis-
factory as that in the district, the Civil Surgeon does not think they are to
be blamed, as their work at the dispensaries, and the greater prejudices of
towns-people account for it.
As regards vaccination in Feudatory and Zamindari States:—
The Chief of Raj Nandgaon, and the Zamindar of Khuji conjointly main-
tained a Superintendent; in Khairagarh the 2 Hospital Assistants inspected the
work, but there was no inspection in the other States.
There are several Zamindaries in which vaccination has never been estab-
lished, and in a few it was started, but afterwards stopped as the Chiefs were
unwilling to bear the expense.
84. Bilaspur.—The supply of lymph was kept up all through the non-
working season. Three-fourths of the vaccinations were from arm to arm.
The Civil Surgeon says there were but few villages in which the Malguzars
did not give aid. He was on tour for 31 days, and the Native Superintendent
for 124 days.
Many of the children said to have been vaccinated were not found by
the Civil Surgeon as they had gone with their parents to marriages or elsewhere,
and in many villages the Vaccination register was not forthcoming.
Dispensary vaccination is reported on favourably, but as the regular staff
vaccinate in Bilaspur itself they leave comparatively few children for the Dis-
pensary and Police Hospital Assistants.
Vaccination appears to be steadily increasing in the Zamindaris, and is
satisfactory, especially in Kowardha and Pandaria. In the Khalsa there is now
very little opposition to vaccination, and what there is, is chiefly on religious
grounds.
The Civil Surgeon believes that inoculation is carried on clandestinely in
the Zamindaris of Chooree, Korba, Ooprora and Laffa.
The Civil Surgeon met with no cases of small-pox in any village, but the
Native Superintendent reports 100 cases in a village where vaccination had
never been practised.