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REPORT ON VACCINATION IN THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY
FOR THE YEAR 1916-17.
From Dr. K. T. MATTHEW, D.HY., D.P.H. (Cantab.), Deputy Sanitary Commis
sioner and Inspector of Vaccination, Madras, to the Sanitary Commissioner
for Madras, No. 209, dated 30th June 1917.
I have the honour to submit the Annual Report on Vaccination in the
Madras Presidency for the year 1916-17.
2. Staff.—The three Deputy Sanitary Commissioners for the Presidency
sanctioned in G.O. No. 1416, Public, dated 17th December 1913, not having been
fully recruited and Major Quirke, I.M.S., Deputy Sanitary Commissioner, Central
Range, reverted to Military duty not having returned, I continued to be in charge
of all the three ranges in the Presidency throughout the year with the exception of
a period of two months and three days from 28th April 1916 when I was on leave
on account of ill-health. During my absence the Sanitary Commissioner was in
charge of the office.
The following statement shows the subordinate vaccination staffs employed
in the Presidency during the past two years :—
(1)
1915-16
...
...
1916-17
...
...
Deputy Inspectors.
First grade,
Rs. 70.
(2)
19
19
Second
grade,
Rs. 60.
(3)
25
23
Third grade,
Rs. 40.
(4)
37
40
First-class
vaccinators,
Rs. 20—15.
(5)
268
261
Second-class
vaccinators,
Rs. 12—10.
(6)
466
437
Third-class
vaccinators,
Rs. 7—5.
(7)
152
151
Total
number of
vaccinators.
(8)
886
849
NOTE.—These figures include the staffs employed in Bangalore and Secunderabad Cantonmente and exclude
those on duty in the King Institute, Guindy. In the Institute there are five Deputy Inspectors of the first grade.
During the year the additional Deputy Inspector of Vaccination sanctioned in
G.O. No. 134, Judicial, dated 17th January 1916, for the Ganjām Hill Tracts was
entertained.
3. Inspections by the Deputy Sanitary Commissioner. —During the year I
inspected the municipalities of Chidambaram, Madura, Tiruppattūr, Vāniyambādi,
Mannārgudi, Virudupatti, Periyakulam, Negapatam, Tiruvālūr, Adōni, Hospet,
Guntūr and Bōdināyakkanūr and vaccination in the municipalities of Chingleput,
Vizagapatam, Cocanada and Nellore and in a number of villages and towns of
South Arcot, Ramnad, Chingleput, Madura, Cuddapah, Bellary, North Arcot,
Vizagapatam and Nellore districts. The number of villages and towns other than
municipalities inspected during the year was 237 and the total number of cases of
vaccination verified was 4,248. I inspected also the town of Tiruvadamarudūr in
Tanjore district in connexion with the Kumbabhishekam festival celebrated there
in the month of July 1916.
4. It is becoming more and more evident that the work of Deputy Inspec
tors of Vaccination requires close scrutiny and supervision by frequent inspections,
which it is not possible for an officer with the Presidency charge to exercise.
During the year, three Deputy Inspectors of Vaccination have been found to have
submitted false diaries without doing any inspection, all of whom were dismissed
from service, a fourth man was reduced and two others fined heavily for offences,
which it would not have been possible by any other means than by a close inspec
tion of their work to find out.
5. (i) Vaccination.—The trial scheme of vaccination continued to be in force
in the whole of Chingleput district and in selected areas of North Arcot, South
Arcot and Madura districts. The extension of this scheme to other districts having
been definitely abandoned in G.O. No. 1814 L., dated 23rd October 1913, proposals
c