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(ii) The compartmental system.—All the districts, with the exception of
Madura, Nilgiris and Rāmnād, adopted the compartmental system in working the
new scheme. The monthly returns from almost all the ranges were seldom
submitted throughout the year on the due dates chiefly owing to the Deputy
Inspectors not having as yet adapted themselves to the changed order of things—
the verification work now being thrown entirely on them—and partly also to the
natural difficulties of the ranges, the delay being proportionate more or less to
the difficulties met with.
The compartmental system in economizing a Deputy Inspector's time spent
on his journeys goes far to facilitate his expeditious inspection, and the adoption
of the same which was urged from this office in districts like Rāmnād and Trichi-
nopoly where such difficulties were most complained!' of is highly essential to the
success of the new scheme, seeing that the annual returns from the last district,
for instance, were received in. this office only after a delay of over a month and a
half, notwithstanding the assistance from all the vaccinators in verification work
which had to be allowed to the Deputy Inspectors for about two months to clear
up their large arrears.
(iii) The total vaccination work done during the past two years by all the
agencies in my range is shown in the following statement:—
Primary vaccination
Re-vaccination
...
...
... ...
Total ...
1917-18.
580,146
109,854
690,000
1918-19.
529,239*
126,084†
655,323
* Excludes dispensary vaccination operations (151).
† Excludes dispensary vaccination operations (106).
As compared with the previous year, the total number of cases vaccinated
shows a decrease of 34,677. There is a fall under primary vaccination but an
increase in the number of re-vaccination. The decrease is due mainly to influenza
and to some extent also to the transfer of Namakkal taluk of Trichinopoly district
to the Central Range.
Large increases are noticeable in the districts of South Kanara (+ 14,242)
and Tinnevelly (+3,968). The districts which show a great decrease are Tanjore,
Coimbatore and Rāmnād and this is attributed (a) in Tanjore to influenza,
vacancies in the staff of vaccinators and cessation of all vaccination work during
the month of January 1919, when all the vaccinators were undergoing local train
ing as recommended in my inspection notes, (b) in Coimbatore to influenza and
(c) in Rāmnād owing to its lack of easy communication between villages, to the
inability as expressed by the vaccinators of securing every month the high
minimum now prescribed (350 per month) with a reduction in the staff of vacci
nators. How the reduction in the staff of the vaccinators and the raising of
their minimum has affected the total outturn of work possible in each district
this year as compared with that of the previous year is shown in the subjoined
statement as well as the actual work done by each district in the past two years :—
Districts.
Coimbatore...
Madura... ...
Malabar... ...
Nilgiris... ...
Rāmnād... ...
South Kanara
Tanjore... ...
Tinnevelly... ...
Trichinopoly...
Total ...
1917-18.
Number of
vaccina
tors.
35
12
40
3
31
26
41
25
29
242
Minimum num
ber for all to
vaccinators for
the year.
63,000
57,600
141,000
3,600
55 ,800
46,809
73,800
60,000
52,200
556,800
Total number of
vaccinations
done.
86,140
58,104
135,905
4,972
52,941
46,772
70,969
73,693
59,166
588,662
1918-19.
Number of
vaccina
tors.
25
17
34
3
18
18
19
20
14
168
Minimum num
ber for all the
vaccinators for
the year.
99,000
81,000
122,400
4,320
75,600
64,800
70,680
96,000
50,400
664,800
Total number of
vaccinations
done.
69,406
58,924
136,100
4,217
48,944
61,014
53,353
77,661
43,913
554,332