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(e) The staff of vaccinators in Darjeeling is three. It mustbe greatly larger in Kumaon
and Gurhwal, as I find that in one season they filled 2,951 tubes, and collected
16,132 crusts, while each vaccinator in 1871-72 vaccinated only 195 persons,
having an area of 884 square miles, with a population of 48,810 in which to
carry on his operations.
(f)
There is no really good class available from which to choose vaccinators in Darjeeling,
while the supply in Kumaon and Gurhwal must be ample. The collections in the
Darjeeling hills are therefore the work of the superintendent's hand alone.
From the foregoing it must not be supposed that no lymph can be issued from Darjee-
ling, or that it is useless as a source of supply. My wish is to explain the matter so that too
great reliance may not be placed upon it, and disappointment result.
I think it would be sufficient to expect the Darjeeling hills to supply at the beginning
of every season a good stock for all the men in the Darjeeling vaccine establishment in the
plains, who are so much scattered as to require much more than if they were concentrated
in one zillah, and to all the civil stations and dispensaries north of the Granges and west of
the Brahmapootra, in Bengal.
Storing of surplus
lymph in
Darjeeling.
As it has been found that lymph collected one cold season in the plains and kept in the
hills during the hot months retains its vitality and is fit for issue in the following October,
I proposed in my letter No. 183 of 13th September last, to the Deputy Surgeon-General,
Pinafore, that surplus stocks of lymph remaining in Calcutta in March should be sent to
me here for care during the hot season. As none have reached me, the proposition does not
seem to have met with approval; but I still think that the Superintendents of the Metro-
politan, Dacca, and Sonthal Pergunnah circles should forward here their surplus stocks of
lymph collected each season, not later than the 16th March, to avoid exposure to great heat.
The Government would then know whence a large supply of reliable lymph could be
got at once in case of small-pox anywhere appearing epidemically.
17. Statement of stations and officers to whom lymph was issued during the season,
agreeably to memo. No. 3845 (A) dated 13th October 1873, from the Secretary to the Surgeon-
General, Indian Medical Department, to the Deputy Surgeon-General, Dinapore circle.
STATIONS.
Rajmehal ... ... ... ...
Gya ... ... ... ...
Tura, Garo Hills ... ... ...
Cooch Behar ... ... ...
Julpigoree ... ... ...
Darjeeling ... ... ...
Purneah ... ... ... ...
Calcutta ... ... ... ...
Monghyr
...
...
...
Chupra (Sarun) ... ... ...
Tahirpore (Rajshahye) ... ...
Titalya (Julpigoree)... ... ...
Indore ... ... ... ...
Darjeeling Terai ... ... ...
Kunwary ... ... ...
Maldah ... ... ... ...
Rampore Beauleah ... ... ...
Darjeeling ... ... ...
Dmagepore ... ... ...
Buxar, Bhootan ... ... ...
OFFICERS.
Deputy Superintendent of Vaccination,
Sonthal Pergunnahs.
Civil Surgeon. ... ... ...
Ditto ... ... ...
Ditto ... ... ...
Ditto ... ... ...
Dr. Churchill, R.A.
Civil Surgeon ... ... ...
Superintendent-General of Vaccination
Civil Surgeon.
Ditto. ... ...
Native Doctor of Dispensary ...
Ditto
Residency Surgeon.
R. Southby. Esq.
H. Harcourt, Esq.
Civil Surgeon ... ... ...
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto
Medical Officer, 38th Regiment, N. I.
REMARKS.
2 issues.
3 issues.
2 issues.
4 issues
2 issues.
2 issues.
2 issues.
DARJEELING,
30 th May 1874.
Memorandum by C. R. FRANCIS, ESQ., Deputy Surgeon-General, Dinapore Circle,
(No. 553, dated Dinapore, the 10th June 1874).
IN forwarding the annual report (for 1873-74) by the superintendent, Dr. Lidderdale,
on vaccination in the Darjeeling circle, the undersigned has the honor to observe that he quite
agrees with the superintendent on the following points:—
1. The advisability of making inoculation penal at one particular point, and of then concen-
trating all the vaccinators at that point. Thus area by area would become protected, and each,
in its turn, would show (in outbreaks of small-pox) to the inhabitants of unprotected areas
around the advantage of the prophylactic. The work of inspection would also be much easier.
2. That no ex-inoculators be permitted to work, except under strict supervision.
3. That it would be well if surplus supplies of vaccine were sent from the plains at the
close of each cold season for preservation as stock in the hills.
4. That, for the reasons given, Darjeeling can never become a depot for vaccine as
Kumaon and Gurhwal have become.