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the people to accept the services of the vaccination staff. The Commis-
sioner of Chota Nagpore -will be requested to submit a special report
regarding the chiefs and zemindars mentioned in paragraph 79 of the
abstract.
10. Act IV. (B.C.) of 1865, prohibiting the practice of inoculation, was
last year extended to the Darjeeling Terai, six thanas in Purneah, the town of
Pooree, six thanas in Mymensing, and four thanas in Patna, and since the close
of the year the Act has been introduced into seven more thanas in the Purneah
district. The Sanitary Commissioner. should submit in a separate report his
proposals for the gradual extension of the Act to the whole of the Orissa Circle,
as well as the proposal for shortening the channel of communication between
himself and the Superintendent of the Orissa Circle. Such suggestions should
not be scattered casually about the report and its appendices, for it is impos-
sible for the Lieutenant-Governor to deal with them satisfactorily when
reviewing the annual administration report of a department. The Compulsory
Vaccination Act V (B.C.) of 1880 came into operation in Calcutta and the
Suburbs and in the Port of Calcutta on the 17th May 1880, and the arrange-
ments made for its introduction and working have already been noticed by the
Lieutenant-Governor in his review of the Health Officer's report appended to the
report of the Calcutta Municipality for the past year.. Since the close of the year
the Act has been extended to the municipalities of Rampore Beauleah, Rung-
pore, Hooghly and Chinsurah, and Soory. The arrangements for working the
Act in Calcutta and the Suburbs are under the Corporation and the Suburban
Municipality respectively, each of which receives the receipts and has to bear the
expenditure under the Act. The vaccine operations in Calcutta are under the
control and supervision of the Health Officer, and in the Suburbs under the
Superintendent of Vaccination of the Metropolitan Circles. The recorded deaths
from small-pox in 1880-81 in the area under the operations of the Vacci-
nation Department in the several vaccination circles were .30 per thousand of
the population, while in the area not under operation in the same districts
the mortality was .67 per thousand.
11. In accordance with instructions recently received from the Govern-
ment of India, the present report will be the last separate report on the Vacci-
nation Department. The report on the working of the Department will in
future be incorporated in the report on sanitation, and the information
required should be given in a more concise form than in the present report
which consists of 91 pages of letter-press alone as compared with 32 pages
in the previous year. Anything of interest or importance in the reports of the
Superintendents of Circles and Civil Surgeons should in future be embodied in
the Sanitary Commissioner's report, and not be given separately in a long
appendix.
12. The Lieutenant-Governor has abstained for the present from passing
any orders on the scheme mentioned in paragraph 9 of the report, for the
reorganization of the Vaccination and Sanitation Departments at an increased
cost of Rs. 88,800 per annum. The scheme in its present form does not
commend itself to the Lieutenant-Governor, and Dr. Lidderdale will be
requested to reconsider it on his return from leave. Sir Ashley Eden's views
on the subject will be then communicated to the Sanitary Commissioner.
ORDER.—Ordered that a copy of the above Resolution be forwarded to
the Surgeon-General for Bengal, to the Sanitary Commissioner, and to all
Commissioners of Divisions, for information.
Ordered also that a copy of the Resolution, together with a copy of the
report for 1880 81, be submitted to the Government of India in the Home
Department for information.
By order of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal,
H. M. KISCH,
Offg. Secy. to the Govt. of Bengal.