Exract
from the Proccedings of the Resident at Hyderabad,
No. 3073, dated
Hyderabad
Residency,
the 5th December 1882.
Read—
The Report of the Superintendent of Vaccination of the Hyderabad Assigned Districts for the year
1881-82.
This Report is very late. It was due in this office on the 20th of May,
but is dated 12th July, and the Commissioner's review was received on the 18th
of September.
2. As observed by the Commissioner, it is a very satisfactory Report. Progress
is shown by the total number of vaccinations being 10,019 more than in the previ-
ous year and 20,262 more than in 1879-80. The percentage of success (89.8) is
higher than in any previous year, and the average number of operations performed
by each vaccinator (1,670 )has only once been exceeded. The percentages of this
Report, however, are worked on the census figures of 1881, so that absolute accuracy
in comparing them with former ones is not attainable. " In some instances," the
Superintendent remarks, "quality appears to have been sacrificed to quantity; and this
has, I find, been too much the case formerly, a vaccinator looking more to the number
of operations performed than to the proportion of success attained. I have, however,
endeavoured to impress upon all in the department that good work is of more
importance than quantity, and promotion is awarded chiefly according to the
quality of the work, though at the same time a fair amount is expected
Each
vaccinator should be able to operate upon 2,000 cases in a season with at least
90 per cent. of success, and every endeavour is being made to work up to this
standard." Dr. Little reports that 59 per cent. of the work performed was
verified by the Superintendents, and that the result of his inspection in five
districts was, on the whole, satisfactory.
The cost of each successful operation is set down at 3 annas 5 pies, against
3 annas 9 pies in the preceding year.
3. There has been some falling off in the work of the Amraoti and
Buldana Districts, and the least favourable feature of the Report is, as usual, the
apparent want of energy shown in the cause of vaccination at dispensaries at civil
stations. In the Amraoti Dispensary, there were only 24 operations performed
during the whole year. If in institutions under the eyes of our most highly
educated medical officers the out-turn is so meagre, the impulse we want to impart
to overcome prejudice against vaccination is likely to be checked rather than
stimulated.
The Resident must ask the Sanitary Commissioner to call for explanations from
the officers concerned, and submit them for his perusal. Year after year the defi-
ciency under remark has been commented on in annual reports and reviews,
apparently to little purpose.
A glance at table No. 13 in para. 10 of the Report will show that at some
dispensaries, at any rate, a great deal more might be done than has been done.
4. On the other hand, the Resident is glad to see that Dr. Little acknowledges
very willing aid to his department from the district officers, mentioning in parti-
cular that rendered by Major Mackenzie and Mr. Ballantyne in the Melghat,
and brings to favourable notice in para. 12 of his Report the names of several
Tahsildars and Government officials, and also of unofficial native gentlemen whose
assistance has no doubt been valuable.
The services of Superintendents Bapurao, Shams-ud-din, and Trimbakrao are
specially commended in the vaccination establishment, the members of which are
said " to take an intelligent interest in their work," and to be " conciliatory towards
the people among whom they labour." Dr. Little's own supervision of the
department has evidently been all that could be desired.
(By order),
G. H. TREVOR,
Secretary for Berar.
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