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Villages visited and not
visited by vaccinators.

24. In compliance with paragraph 5 of Government Resolution in the
General Department No. 4748, dated 4th December
1890, the following statement is appended, which
shows the number of villages visited, as well as those

left unvisited, by the vaccinators of the Department, in each district and Native
State:—

In Sind both kacba and paka villages are included.

It will be seen from the above statement that, out of 55,836 villages and
towns in the Presidency, 44,164 were visited by vaccinators and 11,672, or 20.94
per cent., were unvisited. In British territory out of 41,025 villages 32,808 were
visited and 8,217 or 20.03, equal to one-fifth of the total, remained unvisited. In
Native States, 11,356 out of 14,811 villages were visited, and 3,455, or 29.26
per cent., remained unvisited during the year. I have made it a standing order
that vaccinators, as a rule, should visit all villages with a population of more than
500 souls twice a year, and those less than 500 annually only except during
small-pox epidemics.

Reasons for not visiting
villages.

25. In the Central Registration District there is a great improvement over
last year. Only 148 villages remained unvisited in 5
collectorates of this district. In some of these there
were no children to be vaccinated ; some vaccinators
have a large number of villages in their charge. Only 13 villages remained un-
visited through the indolence of 5 vaccinators. Of the 258 unvisited villages in
this district, no less than 104 remained unvisited in the Bhor State alone. There
are in this State 399 villages in charge of 2 vaccinators. One additional
vaccinator, as stated above, is, therefore, urgently needed in this State.

In the Southern Registration District, out of 6,912 villages and towns, 766,
or 11.08 per cent., were not visited. The majority of these villages, however, are
very small hamlets or wadyas, situated in the forest districts of Kánara, the
Belgaum, Gokák and Khánápur " forest " sub-divisions of the Belgaum Zilla, and
the forest sub-division of Bádámi of the Bijápur Zilla. 544 or 71.02 per cent. of
the total villages unvisited are in these sub-divisional forest areas. The villages,
especially those in Kánara, consist of one or more hamlets and sometimes there
are as many as nine or ten hamlets comprised in the village. Under these condi-
tions the annual visitation of such hamlets is carried on with great difficulty in
this district.

The reason for not visiting villages in Sind is chiefly due to the large size of
the charges now held by some of the vaccinators in the Karáchi Zilla, and the
scattered nature of the villages in the Thar and Párkar District. In Hyderabad,
Shikárpur and Upper Sind Frontier Districts the vaccinators were unable to visit
all the villages in their charge owing to rainfall and inundation.

In the Western Registration District, Eastern Gujarát Registration District,
and Western Gujarat Circle, the chief causes shown for not visiting villages in