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The area of these 2 districts and the vaccination staff employed in them
are so large that for the proper inspection of the work the Civil Surgeons should
be on tour during a longer period than is necessary in other districts.

The Civil Surgeons, Nimar and Mandla, saw nearly half of the total number
of persons vaccinated.

46. The proportion of vaccinated persons inspected by the Native Super-
intendents of Chanda, Betul and Nagpur is very low.

The Native Superintendent of Nimar saw nearly all the vaccinated persons
as already noticed.

47. The Civil Surgeons and Native Superintendents return the same ratio
of successful cases for the Province, and their percentage (92) is practically
the same as it was last year; the ratio returned by vaccinators is 1 per cent
lower than it was in the previous year.

48.    The inspection, by Native Superintendents, of the Vaccinators' work in
the Feudatory States and Zamindaries of the Raipur, Bilaspur and part of the
Sambalpur districts was on a more satisfactory footing in the year under report
than in any previous year, as 2 Native Superintendents were (as sanctioned by
the Chief Commissioner in his letter No. 4499-224 of 21st November 1885)
appointed specially for this work; but as these men did not join their appoint-
ments till the end of January and beginning of February and were new, in
great part, to their districts, the amount of inspection done by them is compa-
ratively small.

49.    I had an opportunity of seeing the work in the Nandgaon, Khaira-
garh and Kawardha States and in the Pandaria Zamindari during the past
working season, and there can be no doubt that it was not and has not been
satisfactory.

I also saw a considerable number of vaccine operations in the Betul,
Chhindwara, Balaghat, Raipur, Bilaspur and Mandla districts.

I did not find the names of unvaccinated persons entered as vaccinated in
any village forms. In several of the circles in the Raipur district the village
forms had not been given to the Kotwar, the names of the persons vaccinated
had not been entered, and in many the vaccinators had not re-visited the villa-
ges to record the results. The work of the previous, as well as the present year,
I also found in several instances bad, and altogether my inspection of the work
in this district led me to the conclusion that the vaccinators were badly super-
vised and had been so for some years, and thus allowed to get into a careless
unsatisfactory way of doing their work both clerical and vaccination. I saw
some indifferent and bad work in the Bilaspur district also. No doubt these
two districts with the Zamindaries and some of the Feudatory States have
hitherto been more than 1 Native Superintendent could thoroughly supervise,
but this is not a sufficient excuse for the state of the work in the Raipur
district.

In Chhindwara and Balaghat the work I saw was with few exceptions
good.