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children still unprotected, he cannot accept this explanation as satisfactory.
The Municipal Vaccinator worked badly and altogether neglected the villages
round the town.

The average number of operations performed by each Vaccinator is 379
less than in the previous year.

Re-vaccination operations rose from 88 in the previous year to 162.

The percentage of success in primary operations is given by Vaccinators
as 96.83: by Civil Surgeons, 90.58.

The Civil Surgeon was on tour 29 days and inspected the work in half the
circles, visiting 194 villages and inspecting 3,155 vaccinated children.

The Civil Surgeon met with an accident at the end of February which
prevented him being out for long in March.

In many villages the Civil Surgeon could not obtain the (village) forms
as in some they had not been left by the Vaccinator, and in others the malguzar
with whom the forms had been left was absent.

The Civil Surgeon did not find the names of any unvaccinated children
entered in the registers ; but he found that in some instances the results were
not correctly recorded in consequence of the Vaccinator having failed to re-visit
the village and ascertain the results : he saw more cases of axillary abscesses
than in previous years, and attributes them to the way in which the operation
was performed. Arm to arm vaccination was less practiced than usual, due to
some extent, he thinks, to the difficulty experienced by the Vaccinators in
inducing parents to take their children to other villages in the heavy rains
in December.

The Native Superintendent was on tour 146 days and found the work in
some circles bad, and the results not correctly recorded. The Civil Surgeon
is of opinion that the Native Superintendent "has taken considerable pains
in his work."

There was not any vaccination carried out in the Zamindaries of Gondai
Silhete, Parpori, Lohara, Burbaspur and Thakur Tola during the year as there
was not any Vaccinator available.

                      FEUDATORY STATE VACCINATION.

There was not any work in the Chhuikhadan State during the year.

The Native Superintendent appointed in January to inspect the work in
the Feudatory States and Zamindaris was 61 days on tour. He is well
reported of.

                         DISPENSARY VACCINATION.

The number of operations performed by Hospital Assistants in charge of
dispensaries was 986 as compared with 2,558 in the previous year. The reason
assigned by the Civil Surgeon for this falling off is that at Arang the Hospital
Assistant's work was confined to the town and that the Hospital Assistants in
Raipur were exempted altogether from vaccinating.