( 4 )
unless there were some circumstances connected with the case that are
not mentioned in the report. So much of the work of the vaccination
staff is necessarily without supervision, that when offences are detected they
must be severely punished. The Lieutenant-Governor agrees with the
Sanitary Commissioner that the Superintendent of the Orissa Circle, Assistant
Surgeon Prisitosh Haldar, did not sufficiently exert himself to meet the out-
break of small-pox in the Orissa Division during the year 1880-81. The Sani¬
tary Commissioner should report whether he considers the Assistant Surgeon
qualified for his present post.
8. The total cost of the Vaccination Department in the year 1880-81
was Rs. 1,11,066, as compared with Rs. 1,20,018 in the previous year. Of the
former sum, Rs. 61,550 represents the cost of the Government vaccination staff,
Rs. 42,375 the cost of supervision and other charges incurred in connection
with the system of licensed vaccination, and Rs. 7,141 the expenditure on
vaccination in municipalities and dispensaries. The average cost of each success-
ful operation in the province was 1 anna 3 pies against 1 anna 1½ pies in
1879-80, and 1 anna 6 pies in 1878-79. The average cost of each operation by the
Government staff was 1 anna 10¾ pies, of each operation by the licensed agency
10¼ pies, and of each operation in dispensaries and municipalities 2 annas
3¾ pies. The cost of each successful case in Calcutta was 14 annas 10 pies,
in the suburbs 6 annas 10 pies, in Behar 5 annas 1 pie, in Orissa 2 annas
1 pie, in the Metropolitan Circles 1 anna 5¼ pies, in the Ranchi Circle 1 anna
2 pies, in the Sonthal Pergunnahs 1 anna 1 1/5 pies, in the Darjeeling Circle
1 anna 01/3 pies, and in the Eastern Bengal Circle 7½ pies. The general
increase in the average cost of operations in the past year as compared with
1879-80 is due to the distribution of the charges for establishment over a
smaller number of operations; for although the gross cost of the department was
lower last year than in the previous year, the proportion of decrease to the
total cost was far below the proportion of decrease in operations to the total
operations of the department.
9. There are indications in the reports of the year that the attitude of
the people towards vaccination is improving throughout the province, as well as
in Calcutta and the Suburbs where a law making vaccination compulsory has
been successfully introduced with the approval of the public. There are still,
however, many instances in which extravagant beliefs and prejudices are held
against vaccination, and the names of several persons of influence and- position
are mentioned in the report as opponents of the work of the department.
The Sanitary Commissioner should inform the Inspector-General of Police
of the nature of the opposition offered by Mofut Hossein, Inspector of the
Colgong thana, and the matter will then be properly enquired into and dealt
with. It would seem, from the abstract of the Superintendent's report, that
the inspector was passively indifferent rather than actively opposed to the opera-
tions of the department. All cases of opposition by the police should be at
once brought to the notice of the Magistrate by the local officers of the
Vaccination Department. . The thanks of Government are due to the zemindars
Gopendra Nath Chowdhri of Purchetgurh and Kaliporosonno Gojendra
Mohapatro of Khemdroee, to Ali Jan Meah and Baboos Shamachurn Ruth and
Ajudhya Nath Koila of Midnapore, to Ajijar Rahman of Chanderdhai in
Purneah, and to Baboos Modhosudan Sing, Lakhicharn Mondal, and Amar Nath
Sing, zemindars in the Banka sub division, for the assistance given by them to
the operations of the department. It is satisfactory to learn that the Maharajah of
Shusung asked last year that vaccination might be introduced in his estate, and the
Lieutenant-Governor trusts that the example set by him and the other gentle-
men named above will be followed by other zemindars and persons of influence
throughout the country. In order to break down the opposition offered at
the village of Jhalda in Manbhoom, the Deputy Commissioner, Mr. A. L. Clay,
caused himself to be vaccinated, and then went from house to house and induced
the people to be operated upon. The attention of Commissioners of Divisions
will be drawn to the remarks of the Sanitary Commissioner in the body of
his report as well as in the appended abstracts regarding the zemindars and
others who obstructed vaccination operations during the past year. Local
officers should impress the advantages of vaccination upon influential land-
holders in their jurisdiction, and should use all legitimate means to persuade