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check 50 per cent. of the cases in their ranges. It is stated that explanations have
been called for. The Deputy Inspectors of Cuddalore and Paramagudi headed the
list with a record of 23,643 and 21,290 cases, respectively, or about seventy cases
per diem excluding Sundays. This, if the figures are accurate, which seems very
doubtful, is satisfactory. The Inspector of Vaccination made a special tour in the
Malabar district and found that the reports of verifications made by the Deputy
Inspectors, low as the percentages were, were in many cases absolutely untrustworthy.
It is hoped that adequate notice of the conduct of these men has been taken. These
special tours promise to be of great value in every way and should, if possible, be
undertaken every year.
4. Infantile vaccination.—Excluding the figures relating to the cantonments of
Bangalore and Secunderabad, the total number of operations reported to have been
performed during the year was 33.5 per mille of the population against 32.9 in the
previous year, and the number of children under one year reported to have been
successfully vaccinated was 296,016 against 240,123, being 31.7 per cent. of the
registered births of the year against 25.6 in 1893-94—a decided advance. The latter
of the figures given above would seem to show that the opposition of parents referred
to in paragraph 6 of last year's report was not the only cause of the decrease in this
direction in that year. Infantile vaccination was again very unsatisfactory in the
districts of Ganjám, South Canara and Malabar; for these districts there may be some
excuse, but for Tanjore, which stands 18th on a list of 21 districts, and its head-
quarter town, which takes the last place out of 56 municipalities, there is none, and
no attempt to explain the discreditable percentages shown against these has been
made. The best results are reported to have been obtained in the districts of Madura
and Coimbatore and in the municipalities of Coonoor, Ootacamund, Bimlipatam and
Negapatam. The advance made in the district of Madura, where 67.5 per cent. of
the children registered as having been born during the year are reported to have been
successfully protected against 8.4 in the previous year, is creditable to the officers
concerned. It is however to be remarked that the figures show that probably less
than half the births which occurred in the district during the year were registered.
5. Agency tracts.—The work reported to have been done by the Government
vaccinators in the Agency tracts of Ganjám, Vizagapatam and Gódávari, taken as a
whole, showed a further increase, the total operations numbering 18,960 against
15,805 in 1893-94 and 15,142 in 1892-93. The work in Ganjám has at length
shown an improvement and the local officers should see that it is sustained. The
attention of the Collector of Vizagapatam will be drawn to the falling off in Jeypore.
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423
548
3,436
11,546
6,823
7,418
3,114
3,851
6,643
6. Local Fund areas.—There was an increase of 17,604 in the number of opera-
tions performed in local fund areas
taken as a whole, and the average out-
turn of cases per vaccinator rose from
1,495 to 1,528, but in the nine districts
noted in the margin there was a decline.
In Ganjám, North Arcot and South
Canara this has occurred for two years
in succession, and the retrogression in
Madura and North Arcot is particularly
noticeable and unsatisfactory. There is,
on the other hand, a large increase reported in the number of operations performed in
the districts of Coimbatore (11,042), Salem (8,935), and Kistna (8,026). The
average reported outturn of work for each vaccinator was, as in the previous year,
highest in Trichinopoly (2,660) ; Tinnevelly and Vizagapatam come next with 2,233
and 2,183 cases respectively. The only other districts in which the average was
more than 1,500 cases per vaccinator were South Arcot, Madura, Coimbatore,
Chingleput, Salem and Kistna; in Ganjám it was as low as 771. Though the
average work of the vaccinators has advanced of late years, it is not yet up to the
standard attained in other administrations and the Government is of opinion that it is
still capable of considerable improvement. The quality of the work turned out
showed a general fall, sixteen districts exhibiting lower figures than in the previous