TRIENNIAL REPORT ON VACCINATION
IN THE
CENTRAL PROVINCES AND BERAR
FOR THE YEARS 1911-12—1913-14.
Area and population.
The Government of India having ordered the exclusion of the statistics
of the Feudatory States from the Provincial returns,
this report deals only with the khalsa area of the
Province, which is 99,823 square miles in extent with a population of 13,916,308
souls according to the census enumeration of 1911.
Establishment.
2. At the close of the last triennium there were 31 Assistant Superintend-
ents of Vaccination and 283 Vaccinators. Two more
Assistant Superintendents of Vaccination were added
to the list during the period under report—one at Amraoti and the other at
Yeotmal. As the subordinate supervising staff in Raipur and Bilaspur
was unnecessarily large, one man was transferred from each of these districts
to Jubbulpore and Bhandara where the work was too heavy for a single
Assistant Superintendent. As regards Vaccinators, Betul and Buldana raised
their staff by three each, Drug and Amraoti by two and Jubbulpore, Saugor,
Balaghat, Nimar, Chhindwara, Raipur and Yeotmal by one, while Nagpur
and Bhandara reduced their staff by one, the total number remaining on
duty at the close of 1913-14 being 298.
3. The much needed scheme for improving the staff has been sanctioned
and will shortly come into effect. The pay and prospects have been consider-
ably enhanced, a standard of general education prescribed, together with a
definite course of technical instruction and various duties in connection with
rural sanitation, e. g., epidemic duty, and the check of vital statistics will become
part of the ordinary work of the staff. The number to be employed has been
left for local bodies to decide for themselves.
Total operations performed.
STATEMENT I.
4. The following table illustrates the progress of
vaccination during the past two triennial periods :—
Table comparing the total number of operations performed in the Central
Provinces and Berar during the past six years.
Establishment.
By Vaccinators ...
By
Sub-Assistant
Surgeons attached
to Government Dis-
pensaries.
By other agencies ...
Total
Triennial period ending 1910-11.
1908-09.
537,941
21,157
...
559,098
1909-10.
532,504
1,864
...
534,368
1910-11.
569,260
807
...
570,067
Total.
1,639,705
23,828
...
1,663,533
Triennial period ending 1913-14.
1911-12.
379,782
2,115
1,204
583,101
1912-13.
570,778
823
2,909
574,510
1913-14.
617,985
4,031
360
622,376
Total.
1,768,545
6,969
4,473
1,779,987
Difference.
+ 128,840
—16,859
+ 4,473
+ 116,454
The total operations numbered 116,454 more than in the previous triennium.
This is due to a diminution of plague epidemics, an increase of staff and
emoluments in some districts and also to the interest taken by the district
authorities. Primary vaccinations were 1,538,986 or 89,963 more than in the
preceding triennium, while re-vaccinations numbered 241,001, showing an
increase of 26,491.
Work done by Vaccinators.
5. Vaccinators performed 1,768,545 vaccinations, of which 1,534,901 were
primary and 233,644 were re-vaccinations. In the pre-
vious triennium primary operations numbered 1,429,950
and re-vaccinations 209,755. The largest increase, 19,263, was in Balaghat;