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                                        SMALL-POX.

The Police reported 1,682 cases with 89 deaths in the whole district,
31 cases without any deaths were reported as having occurred in the town
of Chanda, 12 of those attacked having been, it was said, vaccinated.

67.    Bilaspur.—There was a decrease of 2,032 in the number of opera-
tions, the decrease being chiefly in the Zamindaries of Pendra and Matin.

The percentage of success is by Vaccinators 96.72 and by Civil Surgeon
90.36. The English lymph gave good results, but not superior to those obtained
from the lymph that had been kept up at Head Quarters.

The Civil Surgeon saw many cases where ulceration had followed the
operation : the result he thinks in some cases of the use of old lymph and in
other of the applications applied by the parents.

The people are reported as not opposed to vaccination and as beginning to
see that it protects them from the severe epidemics of small-pox which used
to devastate the country, and the Civil Surgeon says that the absence; of small-
pox marks among the younger generation, as compared with the older, is
very noticeable.

Dr. Swaine mentions a case in which there were 5 cases of small-pox in
a village, all in unvaccinated people. In one family all the children except one
had been vaccinated, and all escaped except this unprotected one who died from
the attack.

The number of Vaccinators is said to be too small for the work they have
to do, now that it has been extended to the Zamindaris.

The Civil Surgeon was unable to get out on tour till" February.

The khalsa Native Superintendent was in camp 124 days and is well
reported of.

The Feudatory State and Zamindari Native Superintendent is also well
spoken of, but the Civil Surgeon had little opportunity of seeing his work.

68.     Raipur.—The work of the season was carried on from the English
lymph.

Previous to this season the Vaccinator paid for by the Municipality of
Raipur had been employed in the district: this season his circle was confined
to the town of Raipur and villages within a radius of 5 miles.

The senior Vaccinator was appointed to act as Native Superintendent in
the Feudatory States and Zamindaris. The total number of operations
performed by the vaccination staff during the year was 7,512 less than in the
previous year, and the Civil Surgeon says that he cannot assign any satisfactory
reason for it. The only causes to which he can attribute it being that two of
the Vaccinators were comparatively and one quite new to the work. The
Vaccinators attribute the decrease to fewer children having been left unvacci-
nated at the close of last season, but as the Civil Surgeon found numbers of such