APPENDIX No. I.
Report on the Vaccine operations in the Seoni district, Central Provinces, during the
season 1870-71.
The Chief Commissioner having decided that a part of the Vaccine Establishment
of the Central Provinces should commence operations in the Seoni district during the last cold
season under the superintendence of the Civil Surgeon, a Native Superintendent and 10
Vaccinators arrived on the 19th of October 1870.
The plan sketched for the season's operations was as follows ,—
To obtain the support of the Deputy Commissioner towards acquainting the people with
the projected operations, and impressipg on them the necessity of acquiescence.
To commence in the Seoní tahaíl, and on its completion of extend the work into Katangí.
To divide the tahsils into circles corresponding to Registiation circles as nearly as cir-
cumstances and the features of the country would admit.
To allot to each Vaccinator a certain circle within which he should work from village to
village.
To commence as soon as good lymph could be obtained in the immediate vicinity of Seoní
under my own and the Superintendent's personal supervision.
To rely for success more on such persuasive powers as could be brought to bear both by
myself and my establishment than on coercive measures by means of Chaprásís
The first case was vaccinated on the 20th of October in the town of Seoní, and although
the vesicles resulting were not as good as could be desired, still the process was continued
with lymph thus obtained, and with some sent by the Superintendent General of Vaccination,
North-Western Provinces.
On the 11th November a few fair vesicles were produced, tubes were at once filled and
the first vaccinator despatched to the south-west of Seoni; on the 12th another man was sent
out, and on the 15th a third, two more on 19th, two on the 23rd, and on the 24th all had left.
The circles were thus allotted in Seoní tahbíl—
South-west comprising part of Iláka Havelí Chauráí
Durássí and Dongná
North-west part of Havelí ... ...
North or part of Havelí ... ...
North-east or Ghansor iláka ... ...
Gondí iláka ... ...
South-east or Ashtá
...
...
Eastern portion below the Gháts or Uglí
Nabbú Khán.
Abdulsalám Khán,
Falzuddín
Abdulwáhab and
Shaikh Karím Bakhsh.
Biharí Lál.
Imdád Alí
Jaikísan and Kádar Bakhsa.
As the three firstnamed worked in the vicinity of Seoni, I accompanied them and the
Superintendent to several villages and personally supervised the commencement of the opera-
tions as well to explain to the people the benefits of vaccination as to give the men a fair
start with their work I found no difficulty here in collecting all the children in each village,
as the municipal vaccinators during the two previous years did a good deal, and had tann-
liarised the people with the process; and here I may remark, that the work done by the muni-
cipal vaccinators, which I had not much opportunity of examining before, seemed good; as the
circle widened, however, I was obliged to let the men work by themselves, riding out occasion-
ally to see their work.
Towards the end of January tents were provided for my use, and on the first of February
I left for camp, my route lay through the west of Nabbú Khan's Circle. I chose this, firstly
because the greater part of it had not been operated on by the municipal vaccinators during the
previous year, and again, being rather hilly and for the most part wanting in-loads, the vacci-
nator did not probably expect I would have left the open country.