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promoted to 3rd class vaccinatorships showing less work both as regards
quantity and quality than the old hands.
* Deorao Shamrao.
Vital Ramchandar.
Balcrishna Venkatesh.
Ramcrishna Damodhar.
Bapurao Narrain.
With the exception of the five men noted in the margin* (who will be
adequately punished after the recess), the results
obtained by the vaccinators were very fair,
varying from 98.2 to 81.5.
In some instances 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 depart-
ment 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.
The percentages on population have been worked on the old census
figures, those for 1881 not being available for circles, so that they cannot be
taken as absolutely correct though relatively they may be fairly compared.
Inspections.
8. The following table shows the extent of supervision exercised by the
Superintendents over the work of the vaccin-
ation staff in their respective districts:—
TABLE NO. 10—Showing verification of Vaccination work by Native Superintendents during
1881-82.
Districts.
Amraoti ...
Ellichpur ...
Wan ...
Basim ...
Akola ...
Buldana ...
Total ...
Total vaccinated.
18,782
8,272
13,359
12,685
20,987
11,452
85,537
Number verified.
By Native Su-
perintendent.
10,513
5,241
3,224
7,963
10,762
7,506
45,329
By head vacci-
nator.
...
...
1,415
1,459
1,487
1,003
5,364
Total.
10,513
5,241
4,639
9,422
12,249
8,509
50,573
Percentage of verified
cases to total vaccinated.
56.
63.3
34.7
74.3
58.3
74.3
59.1
Number of inhabited
villages and t
owns .
1,015
420
1,139
841
970
887
*
5,273
Number of villages in
which work was perform-
ed.
954
441
1,017
765
856
744
4,777
Number of villages in
which work was verified
523
318
388
496
523
554
2,802
Average number of miles
travelled daily by Native
Superintendent.
7.0
6.8
7.
6.3
7.5
8.2
6.9
*According to census returns of 1881.
Compared with a similar table in last year's Report, the figures show
that there was an increase in the number of villages in which work was per¬
formed, and also in the number of villages visited by the Superintendents.
Column 4 shows that 59 per cent. of the work performed was verified,
against 59.5 per cent. in the preceding year. The average number of
miles travelled daily by each Superintendent was 6.9 miles, as compared
with 7.2 in .1880-81.
The Superintendent of the Wun District suffered from an attack of
pneumonia, which obliged him to go on sick leave and disabled him for work
for nearly two months, which accounts for the falling-off in the inspection
work in this district.
I was in camp from November to the end of April, and inspected work
in the Akola, Amraoti, Ellichpur and Wun Districts.
The work inspected was, on the whole, satisfactory.
The following table exhibits the inspection work of those Civil Surgeons
who had charge of their respective head quarter circles compared with the