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marhi, some delay occurred in disposing of it. A few days before the leave was
granted he started with his party for Mecca in anticipation, and was dismissed
for being absent without leave.
4th.—The Deputy Superintendent was ill and obliged in consequence to
take two months' sick leave, so that the important work of inspection was, I fear,
not properly carried out.
5th.—Hospital Assistants attached to dispensaries were directed to vaccin-
ate all villages within a radius of 4 miles from their head-quarters to the exclu-
sion of the regular vaccination staff; 5 vaccinators complained that, in conse-
quence, few villages were left for them to vaccinate, so that the staff was reduced
from 16 to 14 ; and the original number of rural circles (12) doubled up into 10,
with one vaccinator for each. The 4 extra men were employed, 2 in the city of
Nagpur which forms an eleventh circle, and 2 in Kamptee which has this year
been brought under supervision and forms the 12th circle. In future only one
vaccinator will be employed here.
The Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner have very justly remarked
that some of the figures are open to considerable doubt, notably those which
follow.—
Primary vaccination ...
Revaccination
...
Narkher T.
Do. C.
Mohapa T.
Saoner T.
Do
C.
Nagpur City
Bori Circle
Successful 100 per cent.
„
99.5
„
„ 98.38
„
„
100 „
„ 99.51
„
„
100 „
„
100 „
The small amount of work done in Narkher (808 operations), was due to
the reasons already stated. In Katol the short work is attributed to want of
energy on the part of the vaccinator,— only 1,336 successful cases amongst a
population of 45,061 is a very poor out-turn. His percentage of successful cases
as calculated by the Deputy Superintendent is miserably small, being only 34.37.
On examining the Deputy Superintendent's diary, however, I find, that he only
inspected 3 villages in this man's circle spending 2 days in one, and 2 in the
remaining two. In one he inspected only 20 cases, all of which were too recent
to judge of the result; and in the other two, 12 cases, of which 11 were successful;
in other words he only examined 32 cases in 4 days, finding 11 successful, which
gives exactly 34.37 as the percentage. The only conclusion which can be safely
drawn from this is, that the Superintendent's work was certainly bad, the vacci-
nator's may have been good. It would appear that he paid a second visit to the
village (Parasingha) where he inspected the first 20 cases, but says he was too
ill to note any results, though he saw a great number of cases. I find both in
the reports for 1877-78, 1878-79 unfavourable remarks concerning the Deputy
Superintendent's work, and I regret to say, I cannot speak more favourably of
it during the past season. He has never inspected the work of Hospital Assis-
tants at all, his excuse being that he did not know it was his duty. Complaints
were forwarded to the Sanitary Commissioner by the Superintendent of Police,
accusing him of illegal practices, such as taking supplies and carts without pay-
ment &c. He was called on for an explanation, which the Sanitary Commis-
sioner did not consider satisfactory, and has been since reduced to the rank of
Native Superintendent.
Staff.—14 Vaccinators, 1 Native Superintendent. Average number of ope-
rations performed by each vaccinator 1,683.
22. Wardha.—The returns of this district show a decrease of 714 opera-
tions as compared with 1880-81. The Civil Surgeon accounts for it by saying
that vaccination being practised year after year, the number of children found
unprotected must naturally become less and less. The number of primary ope-
rations under 1 year performed in the Wardha district, was 5,463. The number
of births registered in the calendar year 1881,14,896, of these 11,286 survived.