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Of the three first class vaccinators, Saiyad Núr is the best, but his returns are not accurate,
his work as far as I saw was very good, but until I receive a report from the Superintendent
I cannot say how many of the cases vaccinated in February and March are correctly entered.
Praiáb) Singh I do not consider fit for further employ, he is old and past his work, he
constantly neglects to leave the proper papers in the villages, his manner has led me to sup-
pose that his brain is affected. He has never got on well with the villagers.
Sheo Prasád is hardly fit to be a first class vaccinator, he seems to work when it pleases
him and to rest when so disposed, in January for eighteen days he did nothing, and could offer
no explanation. He is careless in recording results, taking the parent's word, and not seeing the
child. A good deal of his work has been done with crusts.
Amir Singh has done good work, he has a tendency to be lazy and take holidays; his
returns are reliable.
Ganpat Singh has done very little during the season, with a very large proportion of
failures. He certainly had to encounter some opposition in the Sháhpúr circle, and could do
but very little arm to arm vaccination.
Amír Ud-din, while working with fresh lymph the results were extremely good, latterly he
has been working with crusts and the results are less favourable. His returns are reliable.
Azím Ud-dín, As far as my inspection permits me to judge, this man's work is also very
good. I only saw 568 in his circle, but of these 545 were successful. He is careless in pre-
paring and leaving the village forms, and the Police have sent a long written report of an al-
leged case in which he accepted bribes not to vaccinate. It is, however, by no means clear
that he did so, the man who accuses him could not name the men who gave the money, and
it is more than probable that the charge would not bear investigation.
Bihárí Lál. Of the 1,018 vaccinated by this man, or rather entered in his register, only
716 were done by him, this seems to me to be very little work for five months. He is a man
of no energy, has but little tact, and makes difficulties when none ought to exist.
Raghunáth Prasád has done very well indeed, I saw 660 cases vaccinated by him, 638
were successful, all with three or four vesicles. His returns are reliable, he is careful and in-
telligent.
Abdul Rahmán Khán was one of those men who bring vaccination into discredit, his
returns were utterly unreliable and his work very bad, he seldom attempted to raise more
than one vesicle, with your sanction he was dismissed at the end of February.
APPENDIX No. 4.
Copy of a letter from the Sanitary Commissioner, Cto
the Commissioner,
Nagpur Division,—No. 450, dated Nagpur, the 5th September 1870.
You will have observed from the report on vaccine operations for last year and the
Chief Commissioner's review thereon that in future the extension of vaccination among the
local authorities, and paid for from Local Funds, excepting as regards the districts of Seets,
Chhindwara, and Betul.
2. Owing to your action in the matter last year more work was done in your Division
than in any other, and there is ground for believing that the spread of small-pox into the dis-
trict from the neighbouring districts of Chhindwara and Betul was checked by the number of
vaccine operations that were performed, but more definite knowledge with regard to the efficacy
of the vaccine operations performed and the e n t r a l P r o v i n c e s , amount of protection conferred on the population
is very much required, and it appears to me advisable that the work for which means are
available should be everywhere carried on, on some uniform plan under which the effect on