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Average number of operations
performed by each Vaccinator
and the percentage of success
claimed.
11. The average number of operations performed
by each Vaccinator in the Khalsa was 1,647 and the per-
centage of success 97.13, the corresponding figures for
the previous year being 1,868 and 96.65 respectively.
Re-vaccination in the Khalsa
12. The particular attention of Civil Surgeons was drawn to the remarks
contained in the concluding portion of paragraph 3 of the
Honourable the Chief Commissioner's Resolution No.
7214, dated the 5th August 1900, on the Notes on Vaccination in these Provinces
for the season 1899-1900, and the result has been that re-vaccinations show a
considerable increase during the year under review, the number having risen from
41,739 in 1899-1900 to 52,054 in 1900-1901, an excess of 10,315, the number of
successful cases being 44,213 and the percentage of success 84.94, or an increase
of 3.62 over that of the previous year. With the exception of the Saugor, Nimar,
Bhandara and Bilaspur Districts, the increase was general throughout the
Provinces. Of the total number re-vaccinated 30,666 were adolescents and
21,388 adults.
Primary and re-vaccination
in the Feudatory States.
13. The total number of primary vaccinations performed in the Feudatory
States was 67,004 against 82,049 in the previous year,
and that of re-vaccinations 14,979 against 6,092. The
cause of decrease in primary vaccinations is the same as mentioned in paragraph 9
of these notes.
Vaccination in Municipali¬
ties.
14. An examination of the statement showing the number of children
available for vaccination in Municipalities elicits the fact
that in many towns the number of children vaccinated was
in excess of the apparent number available. The cause of this excess has been
explained in paragraph 10 ante.
Combined expenditure on
vaccination in the Khalsa and
Feudatory States.
15. As compared with the previous year, there was an increase of
Rs. 579-1-10 in the total cost of the Provincial Vaccine
Department and a decrease of Rs. 904-9-2 in the
Feudatory States, due mainly, in the case of the former,
to promotion of some of the Vaccinators and the entertainment of additional men,
and, in the case of the latter, to the reduction in the establishment of two Native
Superintendents and a Clerk, as also to the omission of the figures relating to
the Sarangarh and Sakti States, from which no returns have been received.
Dispensary vaccination.
16. There was a falling-off (6,987) in the total number of operations per-
formed by Hospital Assistants, including those of the
Feudatory States, the decrease being confined to the
work of the establishment in the Khalsa. This is due to the Hospital Assistant
attached to the Arvi Dispensary in the Wardha District having been relieved of
vaccination duty, to no work of the kind having been done by the Hospital
Assistant of the Sehora Dispensary in the Jubbulpore District, and to the
absence of poor-houses and kitchens, where, in the previous year, a great deal of
vaccination was performed. The percentage of success was slightly below that
for 1899-1900.
Inspections.
17. No Assistant Surgeon could be made available for inspection duty in
the Nagpur and Jubbulpore Districts during the year
under review. In the former, the work was carried out by
a Hospital Assistant and in the latter by the Civil Surgeon himself.
18. The Civil Surgeons and Native Superintendents were 569 and 2,994
days on tour, and inspected 52,769 and 188,240 cases, respectively ; and of these, the
former found 49,090
the percentage of success as verified by Civil and the l at t er 1 7 6 , 4 1 1 to have been s u c c e s s f u l l y v a c c i n a t e d , S u r g e o n s being 93.03, by Native
Superintendents 93.72, and as returned by Vaccinators 95.35.
19. The falling-off in the inspection work as compared with the previous
year was due to the decrease in the number of vaccinations, to the inability of the
Civil Surgeons of Raipur and Sambalpur to proceed on tour—the former through