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for 2 months, so I shall reckon the total at 10. Each vaccinator had an aver-
age area of 569 square miles and a population of 81,603 : both averages are too
large. There were 18,887 primary vaccinations or an increase of nearly 5,000,
but the successfully vaccinated amounted to only 21.5 per mille of population.
The percentage of success was 97.6. Re-vaccinations only numbered 199.
Each vaccinator on an average vaccinated 1,734 persons. Small-pox killed
286. Like Belgaum and Dharwad there is much room for further extension
here, and I am happy to say there is every probability that the increase next
year will be even higher than here shown. I went through this zilhá last
January, and I feel sure that real progress is being made.
Kanada collectorate.
88. This zilhá, has a population of 398,406 and an area of 4,235 square
miles. There were 11 local fund vaccinators, and one
municipal vaccinator worked in Karwar for 2 months
only. Each man has an average of 36,219 population and of 385 square miles
—the former is the lowest average in this presidency, but considering the
dense jungle or rather forests in which a great portion of the people live the
vaccinators are none too many. The primary vaccinations were 17,008, and
the successfully vaccinated were 40.3 per mille of population. The percent-
age of success was 97.4. Only 320 persons were re-vaccinated. Each vacci-
nator on an average operated on 1,461 persons. Small-pox was present the
whole year and carried off 284 persons—had the people been less protected
by vaccination, the probability is that the deaths would have been very great;
the fewest deaths occurred in November and the most in March. This zilhá
seems to be more afflicted with the presence of small-pox than any other,
and to propitiate the goddess Marima Devi there is a jatra every second year
held at Sirsi where sacrifices are offered up of sheep, goats, buffaloes and
cocks—about 12,000 people assemble at the fair to fulfil vows or to ask favours
and protection from small-pox. Vaccination has progressed more in this zilhá
than in any of the others of the Southern circle, and yet it has been under
our system of vaccination only since 1862.
The native states of the
Southern circle.
89. The native states in the Southern circle
are divided into—1st Kolhapur, 2nd Southern Mara¬
tha states, and 3rd Sawant Wadi.
Kolhapur.
90. The population of Kolhapur state is 802,691 and the area 2,778
square miles. The number of vaccinators is 11, so
each has an average population of 72,972 and an
area of 252 square miles. There is an assistant superintendent also main-
tained by this state. The primary vaccinations were 17,558, of which 484
were done at the Sadar station by the hospital establishments. There were
only 20.6 per mille of population successfully vaccinated, and the percentage
of success on the total operations was 97.6. The re-vaccinations numbered only
378, and the percentage of success in them was 89.3 ; each vaccinator ope-
rated, on an average, on 1,553 persons. I have no return of small-pox
deaths. The progress here is not as great as I could wish it, but it is
improving slowly, and I doubt not but the watchful and fostering care of
Colonel Schneider will do for this state what he did so well for Sawant Wadi.
Southern Maratha states.
91. The Southern Maratha chiefs maintain 14 vaccinators for a
population of 627,722 in an area of 2,804 square
miles ; so each vaccinator's average is 44,837 of
population and 200 square miles—both small averages. The primary vacci-
nations were 11,510, and there were only 17 per mille of population success-