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The map shows each vaccination circle and town* in the province, and the*
fractional† figures represent the total number vaccinated and the ratio per
cent. of success to total vaccination.
Work of Native Superintendents.
The percentages have been worked on the population figures of 1881.
The following table shows the amount of in-
spection work done by Native Superintendents:—
TABLE No. XI.—Showing verification of vaccination work by Native
Superintendents
during 1882-83.
Districts.
Amraoti ... ...
Ellichpur ... ...
Wun ... ...
Basim ... ...
Akola ... ...
Buldana ... ...
Total ...
Total
vaccina-
ted.
22,112
9,358
15,649
12,533
20,935
17,519
98,106
Number verified.
By
Native
Super-
intend-
ent.
4,565
7,720
9,387
7,890
8,105
11,388
49,005
By
Head
Vacci-
nator.
...
...
...
...
...
1,005
1,005
Total.
4,565
7,720
9,387
7,890
8,105
12,343
50,010
Per-
centage
of veri-
fied
cases to
total
vacci-
nated.
20.6
82.5
60.1
62.9
38.7
70.4
51.
No of
inhabit-
ed vil-
lages
and
towns.
1,015
420
1,139
841
970
887
5,272
No of vil-
lage s in
which
work waff-
performed
under Na-
tive Super-
intendents.
998
418
978
666
886
755
4,701
No. of
villages
in which
work
was
verified.-
185
381
447
343
385
527
2,268
Average
No. of
miles
travelled
daily by
Native
Superin-
tendents.
6.2
6.2
5.4
5
6.3
7.6
6.1
The total number of villages in which work was inspected was 4,701, or
89.1 per cent., as compared with 90.6 in the previous season, and the number
of cases inspected was 50,010, or 51. per cent. of the total vaccinated, as
against 59.1. The percentage of work verified was highest in the Ellichpur
District, where it was 82.5, and lowest in the Amraoti and Akola Districts,
where it was only 20.6 and 38.7, as compared with 56 and 58.3 respectively
last year.
The falling-off in the Amraoti District was due to the illness of the Superins-
tendent, which ultimately proved fatal. In the Akola District the decrease,
the Superintendent explains, was owing to his having devoted much of his
time in endeavouring to check the spread of small-pox in the town of Akola
and in the Akot Taluk. This explanation is not satisfactory. The para-
mount duty of a Superintendent is the verification of the vaccinator's work,
seeing that his staff use good lymph, that they perform the operation of
vaccination with care and skill, fully protecting from small-pox those they
vaccinate, and that they accurately and honestly record the results, both in
their own and the village register.
In this his principal duty Superintendent Trimbak Rao did not suffi-
ciently exert himself, and the work of his district generally has this season
been inferior to that performed in any other district, showing either neglect
of duty, or a misapplication of energy on his part. I am inclined to put
it down, in part, to the latter, and have cautioned Mr. Trimbak Rao that if
he does not show more energy in this direction next working season he will
have to make room for another man. With the exception of these two
districts, Akola and Amraoti, the inspection work done by the Superintendents
during the year is satisfactory.
Work of Civil Surgeons.
9. The next table shows the inspection work
done by Civil Surgeons.
*For these see map attached to the Report for 1881-82.
† For these see statement attached to the Report.