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The accompanying Statements show a total of 13,636 operations per-
formed this year, of which 12,289 were successful or 92.25 per cent. Last year
there were 11,252 vaccinations, of which.8,708 were successful or 85.35 per cent,
This gives an increase of 3,581 successful cases for this year over last, also there
is a greater percentage of successful cases by about 6.90.
Conduct of Vaccinators.
I regret to say that none of the Vaccinators were as,
diligent as they might have been,
Beharee Lal, 3rd Class Vaccinator, did very little work indeed. He stated
that he was sick, but at the time of my inspection he was in perfect health.
Pandoba, 1st Class Vaccinator, did only 680 vaccinations during the whole
season, but the country was new to him and he may do better next year.
I have particularly to bring before your notice the conduct of 3rd Class
Vaccinator Shaikh Mahbub. He was sent to one of the most populous parts
of the district, the circle of Multai. I received a petition signed by 7 of the
Vaccinators stating this man had made between 500 and 600 false entries in his
registry. I carefully examined his books and was obliged to exclude more than
500 names for which he could not account. I also found several villages entered
twice. When all these false entries were taken out, it left the number done
in his circles at only 1,206 during the whole season ; of this number 1,025 were
done in my camp at the time of my visit, and this will leave him a total number
of vaccinations for the season of only 181. No reliance can be placed in any
of his returns, and I think that the work of vaccination would be benefited by
his dismissal, which I strongly recommend.
Mahomed Murad, Native Superintendent, has not afforded me any reason,
to be satisfied with him this year. He was not at all as diligent as he might
have been, and you will see by the enclosed petition which I forward for your
perusal that he appears to have countenanced Shaikh Mahbub, who was his
"disciple," in sending in incorrect or rather false returns. I have had many op-
portunities of observing him while at work, and I remarked a perfect absence of
energy in all his movements, and a carelessness in supervising and keeping the
Vaccinators to their work, which was very detrimental to the work.
The conduct of the rest of the Vaccinators was good. Goolab Sing, Faiz-
audden, Anajee and Mohioudeen Khan were all strangers in the district this
year, but next season they will be better acquainted with it, and I anticipate
better results.
The population of the circles in which vaccination was carried on is 249,133,
there were 13,636 vaccinations performed during the season or 54.73 per 1,000
of the population ; still there remains a large percentage under 12 years of age
to be secured, and very many will not at all allow their children to be operated
on, unless it is made compulsory for them to do so, and until this is the case
I fear that any amount of persuasion will not succeed in perfectly securing the
entire district.
I have spared no trouble to ensure the correctness of the accompanying
returns, and were it not for the exclusion of some which were not trustworthy,
they might have been over 14,000 for the season. But I prefer the smaller
number as being quite correct.