No. 4982A/324

FROM

                  F. C. ANDERSON, ESQ., C. S.,

                               OFFG. SECRETARY TO THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER,

                                                                                                     Central Provinces.

To

                        THE DEPUTY SURGEON-GENERAL,

                                                                  Central Provinces.

                                                Dated Nagpur, the 2nd November 1886.

SIR,

I am directed to acknowledge your Report on Vaccination for the year
1885-86, which was received in print on the 22nd September last.

Results generally unsatis-
factory.

2. The results of the year, the Officiating Chief Commissioner regrets to
observe, are generally unsatisfactory. The total number
of operations was less than it has been for several years
past, the cost of each successful case was higher than in
the preceding year, and there has been a falling off in the amount of inspection
work done.

Work of the Provincial
Vaccination staff.

3. The number of operations performed by the Provincial Vaccine Depart-
ment during the past four years is shown below :—

Compared with 1884-85, there has been a decrease in the year under report
of 32,655 operations, the number of vaccinators employed being the same in
both years.

The decrease in primary vaccinations occurred in 14 out of the 18 districts
and is most conspicuous in Raipur, Jubbulpore, Seoni and Mandla. The expla-
nations of the decrease given by the Civil Surgeons of these and other districts
cannot be regarded as satisfactory, and the Officiating Chief Commissioner sus-
pects that as, e.g., in Bhandara, so elsewhere, the falling off is largely due to the
vaccinators having failed to work as they should have done, and this failure
again is, in some cases, clearly due to a want of supervision on the part of the
Civil Surgeon. As regards Raipur, for instance, you report that your inspec-
tions led you to the conclusion that the vaccinators were badly supervised and
had been so for some years. This state of affairs, I am to observe, is discredit