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has decreased there are two, viz., Sarangarh and Raigarh, which are under Go-
vernment management, and he takes this opportunity of drawing the attention
of the Deputy Commissioner of Sambalpur to the matter.

No vaccination work was done by the Hospital Assistants in charge of the
Dongargarh and Raj Nandgaon Feudatory Dispensaries, and the Officiating
Chief Commissioner would be glad to know whether, if they have been inten-
tionally relieved of this duty, proper arrangements have been made for carrying
on vaccination in these two places.

Small-pox.

6. The table in paragraph 40 of the Report is intended to give the order in
which each district stands in the matter of protection from
small-pox (when judged by the proportion of the population
believed to have been successfully vaccinated in the past five years), as compared
with the order of the district death rate from small-pox in 1885-86. But in the
heading of the second column of figures in the table the words " slightest" and
"severest" have evidently been transposed, No. 1 (Bhandara) representing the
severest (not the slightest), and No. 18 (Hoshangabad) representing the slightest
(not the severest) death rate from small-pox. It may be observed that the Civil
Surgeon of Hoshangabad is of opinion that many cases of small-pox are not report-
ed, and no positive conclusions can be drawn from statistics which are liable to
error; but the figures as grouped in sets of three below would seem to warrant us
in tracing a pretty distinct relation between the extent of protection believed to
have been afforded and the death rate from small-pox.