No. 4574/241
Extract from the Proceedings of the Chief Commissioner, Central Provinces,
in the General Department, dated Nagpur, 3rd August 1888.
Read the Annual Statements of Vaccine operations in the Central Provinces for the year
1887-88 with notes by the Deputy Surgeon-General.
RESOLUTION.
Under the orders of the Government of India in Home Department Reso-
lution No. 28-1579-95, dated the 15th July 1887, the Vaccination Report is
prepared triennially instead of annually, the statements only with brief notes
being submitted in the intervening years.
2. The total number of persons vaccinated again increased during the
year under report, the operations performed by the Departmental staff having
risen to 4,11,908 as against 3,85,536 during the previous year, omitting from the
latter the figures for the States of Bamra and Sonpur which have not yet been
received for the year under report. Of this increase 13,890 occurred in the Pro-
vincial area and 12,482 (equivalent to 31 per cent) in the Feudatory States.
The former increase is accounted for by the figures for Raipur (7,860) and
Sambalpur (7,212). During the year under report the vaccination staff was
re-organized and strengthened in the Chhattisgarh Division to enable it to
undertake the work of the zamindaris of that Division as well as of the Khalsa.
The Superintending charges were also revised so as to include the Khalsa, Zamin-
daris and Feudatories in a single scheme. Five more vaccinators were added to
the Raipur, and two to the Sambalpur staff, and their appointment is more than
sufficient to account for the increased number of operations in these two dis-
tricts. Similarly part of the large proportional increase in the Feudatory States
occurred in Raigarh (6,461) and Sarangarh (1,434) which each entertained two
additional vaccinators during the year. Kalahandi also had a large increase
(4,852), while there was a considerable falling off (3,880) in Nandgaon.
3. The percentage of success claimed by vaccinators was slightly
higher, being 96.08 against 95.48 in the previous year for primary operations
and 73.99 against 73.27 for re-vaccinations. The ratios of successful cases as
seen by Civil Surgeons and Native Superintendents, which are not given in
the statements, are also said to vary but slightly from those of 1886-87. The
Government of India in Home Department letter No. 288, dated 30th September
1887, expressed the opinion that the percentage of success claimed by vacci-
nators was open to doubt, being some 6 per cent higher than that ascertained
by Civil Surgeons and Native Superintendents. The lower percentage last
referred to is however partly explained by the fact that inspecting officers
naturally spend more time in the circles of vaccinators whose work is considered
bad.
4. The total expenditure of the Department rose from Rs. 40,245-3-11 to
Rs. 42,783-7-1 in the Provincial area. The increased cost was met from District
Funds and is due to the increased establishment entertained in the districts of
the Chhattisgarh Division to which reference has already been made. The
Feudatory State expenditure fell from Rs. 3,733-15-6 to Rs. 3,314-15-3. The
re-organization of the staff in the Chhattisgarh Division while increasing the
number of vaccinators by 4 in the Feudatory States, as already mentioned, effected
on the whole a saving to the Chiefs in the cost of establishment.