AMRAOTI DISTRICT.
Area in square miles 2,759. Number of inhabited villages 1,097. Population 501,331.
Strength of establishment.
ESTABLISHMENT.
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Native Superintendent.
Head Vaccinator.
1st Class Vaccinators.
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Peon.
The strength of the establishment remained the same as last year.
Raising of lymph.
The season's operations were started on the 29th of September with a supply of
animal lymph received from Akola, with which a calf
was vaccinated. This proving successful, lymph was
propagated and distributed to each circle.
Season's work.
The number of operations performed during the
year amounted to 20,061, against 12,344 in the previous
year, showing an increase of 7,717.
The average number vaccinated by each vaccinator was 1,672, against 1,234, and the
ratio of vaccinations per 1,000 of population 40 to 24.6 in 1879-80.
The percentage of successful operations to total vaccinated in the district was 85.2
to 87.5 in the previous year. The percentages of unsuccessful and unknown cases were
8.6 and 6.2, respectively, against 6.2 and 6 3 last year.
The numbers successfully vaccinated under one year were 8,176, or 47.8 per cent.
of total successful vaccinations. The percentage of the annual birth-rate protected
against small-pox, calculated at 40 per 1,000 of the population, was 40.7.
The total expenditure on vaccination for this district was Rs. 3,129-9-9, and the cost
per successful case Rs. 0-2-11, against Rs. 0-4-6 in the previous year.
Inspection.
Out of 926 villages in which vaccine operations were conducted, 541 were visited for
inspection, and 12,747, or 63.5 per cent. of the. total
number vaccinated in the district were verified.
The Native Superintendent visited 439 villages, verified 10,600 cases, or 52.8 per
cent. of the number vaccinated in the district, and travelled 1,714 miles, or on an average
of 9.4 daily. The head vaccinator verified 2,147 operations, and travelled on an average
nine miles a day.
Attitude of the people.
Obstruction to the spread of vaccination was met with in the town of Amraoti. The
Superintendent reports that although he applied to the
municipality for assistance, he entirely failed to carry
on work in this town. In the head-quarter circle some difficulties were experienced by
the vaccinator, which, however, the Superintendent succeeded in removing by his personal
influence and persuasion. In other parts of the district no real opposition was experienced
except amongst certain classes, as Mahomedans, Marwadis, Rajputs, and Brahmins. The
Superintendent writes:—
" Mahomedans flatly refuse to accept vaccination, while the other classes indirectly do so by
pleading some kind of excuse."
Some difficulty arose from the women washing off the lymph from their children's
arms, and applying irritating substances for the purpose of destroying the efficacy of the
lymph, thus increasing the number of unsuccessful and doubtful cases.
Much difficulty was experienced in obtaining lymph subjects for the purpose of
carrying on arm-to-arm vaccination from one village to another, even though batta was
offered to the mothers at the rate of 2 annas a mile. Many even refuse to allow lymph
to be taken from their children's arms.
Small-pox.
A few cases of small-pox were reported from the Warud Circle during the season,
and steps were at once taken to have all the unpro-
tected children vaccinated in and around those villages
where the disease had appeared.
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