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to repeated operations, and the decrease is really due to classification being
properly carried out this year.

20.    The total number of Vaccinators employed has remained the same :
but in the Narsinghpur and in the Seoni districts a Vaccinator was employed
specially for the Municipal towns to relieve the Hospital Assistants of the work,
while in the Raipur district the number employed in the zamindaries was two
less than in the previous year.

Grave irregularities in the way of levying fees by the Vaccinators having
been discovered at the commencement of the season in the Sambalpur district,
the Native Superintendent was suspended, and at its close a Hospital Assistant
was deputed to inspect the work : two Vaccinators were tried by the Magis-
trate and punished with rigorous imprisonment for 12 months.

21.    The average number of operations performed by each Vaccinator is
170 lower than in the previous year and reaches 2,000 in only 5 districts, viz.
Chhindwara (2,376), Balaghat (2,208), Sambalpur (2,047), Wardha (2,032),
Mandla (2,007). The number is lowest in Betul (1,177), Seoni (1,369) and
Narsinghpur (1,433).

The greatest falling off in the work of each-Vaccinator as compared with
that of the previous year took place in the districts of Seoni (796), Jubbul-
pore (454), Raipur (315), Betul (291), Mandla (254), and Chhindwara (233).

22.    The percentages of success are as returned by—

The highest percentage of success is claimed by the Vaccinators of Mandla
(99.14), and as usual those of Chanda returned the lowest (88.22). The high-
est ratio of success found by any Civil Surgeon was that in the Mandla
district (98) and the lowest that in the Damoh district (84), while Native
Superintendents place the extremes in the Wardha (99) and Jubbulpore (85)
districts.

The table at page 14 giving the results of inspection shows for each district
the percentage of success claimed by Vaccinators and that found by the Civil
Surgeon and Native Superintendent on inspection.

The ratio for the Province returned by both Civil Surgeons and Native
Superintendents is 92 per cent, which is the same as in the previous year.

The Civil Surgeon, Betul, is of opinion that unsuccessful cases were not
brought forward for his inspection, and that this accounts for the ratio of suc-
cess found by him being higher than that claimed by the Vaccinators.

The Civil Surgeon, Chanda, does not offer any explanation of his having
found the ratio of success upwards of 5 per cent higher than that claimed by
the Vaccinators.