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preceding year vaccination was continued during months of the April, May,
and June, 2,357 being operated upon with 1,890 successes. After working
at and near Raipur men were sent to out-stations on 13th December, opera-
tions were carried on in the Dhamda Pargana to the north of last year's area,
325 villages were included and 211 visited, in these 8,761 were vaccinated,
the successes being 7,684, or 87.7 per cent. There was difficulty in carrying on
arm to arm vaccination, owing to the objections of the people, but the Superin-
tendent reports greater success than in former years. The Civil Surgeon did not
inspect owing to the distance of the working ground from head-quarters. The
Hospital Assistant at Raipur operated with success, and from him supplies of
lymph were obtained at the commencement of the season. The 2nd Class
Hospital Assistant, Mulchand, at Dhamtari, was very active, visiting a large
number of the neighbouring villages, and when his dispensary was inspected
in March upwards of 200 children whom he had successfully vaccinated were
brought up for examination.
Nothing was done at Arang and Simgah and very little at Drug,
Throughout the district the number operated upon was 11,433, and the percen-
tage of success 87.68.
The Civil Surgeon reports that chicken-pox was very prevalent through-
out the district, at the close of the last and beginning of present year (1872).
This was followed by an out-break of small-pox, which usually occurs annually
at this time.
Small-pox occurred in the town of Raipur, the first case having been
imported, no deaths reported.
Inoculation is still carried on in some villages but less so than in former
years. One Panda was punished by the Tahsildar of Khairagarh for this practice.
BILASPUR.—Four Vaccinators were employed, two paid by Municipalities
and two from Local Funds. On a supply of fresh vaccine lymph being obtained at
Bilaspur, Vaccinators were sent to the branch dispensaries to work under the
supervision of the Hospital Assistants. One man was kept at the Sadar, acting
under the Civil Surgeon. Most of the cases were operated upon from arm to
arm. The Sub-Assistant Surgeon when in charge of the district visited several
villages and was satisfied with the results. The Hospital Assistants also report
favourably, and the Civil Surgeon himself visited the Mungeli Circle, examining
several villages. It is noticeable that most of the children, indeed all except
those vaccinated at Mungeli, were over one year old. The natives are unwilling
to submit children under that age either to vaccination or to inoculation, of
which they have knowledge or experience rather There has been some diffi-
culty in carrying on vaccination at all, as though the fathers may be willing, the
mothers are nearly all in favour of inoculation.
SAMBALPUR.—In this district vaccination was carried on with more ease
and success than in any other part of the Provinces, and I was struck in my march
through from Bilaspur to Sambalpur, and thence to Raipur, at the unusual num-
ber of children in different villages. I carefully examined the work of the two
Vaccinators in some villages on my way, found it excellent and the returns correct.
When the operations had not been successful the parents of the children felt
aggrieved and asked me the reason, some submitting their children voluntarily for
a third operation. Local lymph kept from the preceding year failed in October,
but the vaccine disease was started from English lymph received from Nagpur.