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From Dr. S. JESUDOSS, B.A., M.B., C.M., D.P.H. (Cantab.), F.R.C.S.E., Deputy Sanitary
Commissioner, Southern Range, Coimbatore, to the Sanitary Commissioner
for the Government of Madras, No. D. 521, dated 9th July 1919.
I have the honour to submit the Annual Report on Vaccination in my range
with the appendix statements for the year 1918-19.
2. Staff.—I was in charge of the range throughout the year. My office
which continued to be in Madras during March and April 1918 as per G.O. Mis.
No. 303 L., dated 1st March 1918, was transferred to Coimbatore, the permanent
headquarters of the range, on 29th April 1918. The following table shows the
subordinate vaccination staff employed in the range during the past two years :—
Year.
(1)
1917-18...
...
1918-19
Deputy Inspectors.
First
grade.
(2)
7
(Rs. 70)
10
(Rs. 80—4—
100)
Second
grade.
(3)
10
(Rs. 60)
13
(Rs. 65—3—
80)
Third
grade.
(4)
11
(Rs. 40)
12
(Rs. 50—3—
65)
First-class
vaccinators.
(5)
92
(Rs.20—15)
68
(Rs. 30—1 -
40)
Second-class
vaccinators.
(6)
189
(Rs. 12—10)
115
(Rs. 20—1—
30)
Probationers.
(7)
40
(Rs. 7—5)
54
(Rs. 15)
Total
number of
vaccinators.
(8)
321
237
3. Inspections by the Deputy Sanitary Commissioner.—During the year under
report I inspected vaccination in 18 municipal towns and in 407 villages in the
districts of Coimbatore, Trichinopoly, Madura, Tinnevelly, Rāmnād, Tanjore,
and Malabar (the last three were visited more than once) and the total number of
cases inspected were 10,376, in 6,040 of which I checked the results of the Deputy
Inspectors' verifications. In these tours of inspection, interior tracts and villages
(e.g., in North Malabar, Wynad, Kollegal) and districts (e.g., Trichinopoly and
major portions of Madura and Tanjore) which were long left unvisited were
primarily taken up for inspection in accordance with the Sanitary Commissioner's
suggestion in his last Annual Report. And under orders from the Sanitary
Commissioner, Madras, (1) I inspected the municipalities of Tiruppūr, Udamalpet,
Erode, Dhārāpuram, Srīvilliputtūr, Māyavaram and Kumbakōnam, (2) I visited
in September the Anamalais plantations to report upon the high mortality and
panic caused there among the estate coolies by the virulent outbreak of influenza
epidemic, (3) I visited in November Mount Stuart and Attakatti in the Anamalais
in order to make a malarial investigation in those places, and (4) in February 1919
I visited Muthupet Union in Tanjore district in connexion with the water-supply
scheme of the town.
4. (i) Vaccination.—The new scheme as recommended in G.O. No. 963 L.,
dated 4th July 1917, was introduced in all the districts in the course of the
year, and how far the reorganization of the vaccinating staff as recommended
therein was given effect to by the Local Boards is shown in the subjoined table :—
—
Coimbatore... ...
... ...
Madura... ... ... ...
Malabar... ...
...
...
The Nilgiris... ... ...
...
Rāmnād...
...
...
...
South Kanara... ... ... ...
Tanjore... ... ... ... ...
Tinnevelly... ...
Trichinopoly... ... ... ... ...
Total ...
First-class
vaccinators.
2
7
4
...
4
1
8
6
2
34
Second-class
vaccinators.
3
6
1
...
10 l
4
4
5
34
Old men
retained.
17
3
26
3
4
16
8
10
5
92
Total (exclusive
of reserve
vaccinators).
22
16
31
3
18
18
20
20
12
160
Total number of vac
cinators sanctioned
as per G.O. No.
963 L. (exclusive of
reserve vaccinators).
169
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