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Vaccination practised from the tubes of English lymph proved successful.
Every thing being in readiness, the vaccinators were sent to their respective
circles in the middle of October. These had been re-arranged, and maps had been
prepared which proved very useful.
At Damoh the supply of lymph had been kept up, and the men were des-
patched to their circles in the middle of October.
At Hoshangabad the Civil Surgeon writes :—
" The vaccinators were instructed to make four insertions except in the cases of very
young infants, and to vaccinate from arm to arm. They were also directed to
extend their operations to older children, and adults remaining unprotected from
small-pox."
As regards the English lymph supplied he writes:—
" In the majority the result was unsuccessful, the lymph having apparently lost its vitality."
13. The Civil Surgeon, Mandla, reports that the supply of lymph was kept
up throughout the hot and rainy seasons. It was supplemented by tubes of
lymph collected at Nagpur, and of English lymph. Both kinds were found good
and produced successful vaccination.
From Betul the Civil Surgeon writes:—
" Vaccination was kept up during the non-working season, and a sufficient supply of
lymph was available on the 2nd November when the men went out. "
" No English lymph was received this season, and none was required."
" The orders given to vaccinators were to abstain from collecting a number of villagers
at central points, to vaccinate as far as possible arm to arm, and on four distinct
points on the arm of each child."
The Civil Surgeon, Chhindwara, writes :—
" The vaccinators were strictly enjoined to re-vaccinate all, failures in order to secure
success."
14. The Civil Surgeon, Seoni, did not keep up his supply of lymph, but
procured it from Wardha. He was enabled to obtain a sufficient quantity from
this, so as to commence work at the customary time. He does not report favour-
ably of the English lymph; only half the number vaccinated proved successful.
The Civil Surgeon, Bhandara, writes :—
" I received 10 tubes of English lymph which I used on 8 children with success. There
was no deficiency of matter during the season to interrupt operations".
The Deputy Superintendent of Vaccination, Nagpur, writes :—
" 20 tubes of English lymph were supplied, 20 children were vaccinated, 17 proved
successful, the remainder proved unsuccessful. Care has been taken to preserve
this lymph in the city, as arm to arm vaccination is carried on here."
At Wardha, the Civil Surgeon obtained a supply of lymph from Chanda in
August, with which the vaccinators commenced work with the view of getting a
supply of lymph to start the regular work with.
The English lymph was tried on 5 children, and in all, the operation was
successful.
Owing to the desire to secure lymph a great deal of vaccination was prac-
tised in Wardha, as many as 408 children having been operated on.
15. In Raipur the supply was not quite so successfully preserved. The
supplies received from Bilaspur failed, but tubes received from Nagpur were of
better quality. With the lymph obtained from these, vaccination was started
on the 10th November, but even then the lymph in 2 circles failed, and a fur-
ther supply had to be procured.
The Civil Surgeon, Bilaspur, writes :—
" The vaccinators were enabled to be at their respective circles before the day appoint-
ed for the commencement of vaccine operations, viz. the 1st November."
The Civil Surgeon, Sambalpur, was able to keep up the supply of lymph,
and he also received some tubes of English lymph which were useful.