TRIENNIAL REPORT ON VACCINATION
IN THE
CENTRAL PROVINCES AND BERAR
FOR THE YEARS 1905-06, 1906-07 AND 1907-08.
Cause of delay in submitting
the report.
The report was due in the Press on the 20th May, but was unavoidably
delayed owing to non-receipt of returns from the Feuda-
tory States of Sirguja, Jashpur, Korea and Changbhakar
These have not yet been received ; so to avoid further delay this report is sub-
mitted without them.
Population and area in which
vaccination work was perform-
ed
(Statement I.)
2. There have been considerable changes during the triennium in the po-
pulation amongst whom and the area over which vaccine
operations have been carried out. The Khalsa portion
of the district of Sambalpur, with some of the attached
Zamindaris and Feudatory States, covering an area of about 13,644 square
miles with a population of 1,588,663 inhabitants, were transferred to Bengal, and
five Feudatory States from Bengal—Udaipur, Jashpur, Sirguja, Korea and Chang¬
bhakar—having an area of 11,604 square miles, and 583,177 souls were transfer¬
red to these provinces The present area served by the Vaccination Department
is 131,564 square miles, with a population of 13,621,559 as against an area of
133,604 square miles in the previous triennium, with a population of 14,627,045.
Vaccination Establishment.
3. At the close of the last triennium, there were 35 Superintendents (27 for
Khalsa and 8 for Feudatory States) and 323 Vaccina-
tors (260 for Khalsa and 63 for Feudatory States) at
work. In 1905-06 two Superintendents of the Provincial Establishment and 4 of
the Feudatory States were transferred to Bengal and I was entertained for
Amraoti Paste Depôt, making a total of 30 for the year (26 for Khalsa and 4 for
Feudatory States) which number continued unchanged till September 1907 when
the Paste Depôt was abolished and the appointment of the Superintendent, who
was attached to it, brought under reduction. In the report for 1906-07, seven
Superintendents were incorrectly shown as having been at work in the Feudatory
States. This occurred through a mistake in the Feudatory States' returns received
from Makrai, Udaipur and Jashpur, where there were no regular Superintend-
ents, but the Managers, etc , of the States, who having from time to time as
opportunity occurred inspected the work, were shown as Superintendents of
Vaccination. Of the 323 vaccinators at work at the commencement of the
triennium, ten from the Provincial staff and 29 from Feudatory States were trans-
ferred to Bengal in October 1905, and the one attached to the Paste Depôt at
Amraoti was transferred on its abolition to a newly-created post. The Nagpur
Municipality added two more and the Jubbulpore one more to their establishments
in the succeeding year (1906-07); one appointment in the district of Chhindwara
was abolished and two in the Kamptee Cantonment were added to the number
working, making in all 254 Khalsa vaccinators, which number remained unaltered
throughout the triennium. In the Feudatory States, one appointment in Bastar
was reduced in 1906-07 and 14 (two for Udaipur, seven for Sirguja and five for
Jashpur) were added to the list. The return for 1907-08 shows only 35 vaccina-
tors as the 12 men for Sirguja and Jashpur, from which no returns were received,
are not taken into account.
Total number of operations
performed in Central Provinces
and Berar, including Feudatory
States.
4. The following table compares the work done by the Provincial and
Feudatory States' Vaccinators and Hospital Assistants
during the triennium under review, with that of the pre-
ceding triennium :—
Establishment.
By District vaccina-
tors.
By Feudatory State
vaccinators.
By Hospital Assistants
attached to Dispen-
saries.
By Hospital Assistants
attached to Feuda-
tory States Dispen-
saries.
Total
Triennium ending 1904-05.
1902-03
492,143
28,768
13,434
1, 705
536,050
1903-04.
478,421
53,635
10,643
2,875
545,574
1904-05.
514,089
54,837
16,759
2,824
588,509
Total.
1,484,653
137,240
40,836
7,404
1,670,133
Triennium ending 1907-08
1905-06.
534,277
63,071
25,166
3,624
626,138
1906-07.
523,532
69,817
21,043
2,989
617,381
1907-08.
511,603
63,620
20,908
3,116
599,247
Total.
1,569,412
196,508
67,117
9,729
1,842,766
Difference
+ or -.
+ 84,759
+ 59,268
+ 26,281
+ 2,325
+ 172,533