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number 205, followed by Chanda 117, Drug 138, Mandla
116 and Narsinghpur 105. Very few deaths were
returned from Amraoti (10), Damoh (6), Betul (4), Wardha
(1) and Bhandara (1). As stated in previous reports, the
increase in small-pox is due to the fact that every year a
number of children escape vaccination. It is, therefore,
extremely important that vaccination of children should
be as complete as possible every year.

29.    Temporary Small-pox Prevention Regulations.—
These regulations were not applied to any of the towns
during the year 1928-29.

30.    General.—During the preceding triennium the
Local Government sanctioned the scheme for the training
of schoolmasters in Berar in vaccination and so far the
total number of teachers thus trained is 47.
During the year 1928-29, 16 trained teachers were
employed for vaccination work in Amraoti district, 11 in
Yeotmal district, 8 in Akola district and 10 in Buldana
district. The figures of vaccination work performed by
these men are included in Statement No. I. As regards
the work by this agency, the Civil Surgeon, Amraoti,
remarks that the results of the work shown by them in their
registers was not always found correct and that it will
never be possible to check their full work during the season
by any inspecting officers. The Civil Surgeon and the
Deputy Commissioner, Akola, consider that the experi-
ment is a failure, while the Yeotmal District Council have
discontinued sending any more teachers for training in
vaccination. It is only in the Buldana district that the
experiment seems to have met with success.

With regard to the employment of schoolmasters, it
is a matter of opinion whether it is advisable to
depute them to a sphere of duty which is cer-
tainly not their own. To my mind a far better solution
would appear to be that they should do the spade work by
way of advising and instructing the people in their areas
regarding the advantages of vaccination which in virtue
of their intimate contact with the people as teachers, etc.,
they are peculiarly fitted for, rather than encourage them
to set up as vaccinators after due training. When the
ground has thus been cleared it would be an easy matter
for the vaccinator to carry out his duties instead of wasting
his time in persuasion; etc., which may for all one knows,
not result in any appreciable success. But as some school-