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VIII.—The Hospital Assistants are to keep themselves accurately informed of the
whereabouts of their vaccinators, and are to inform zaildárs, in writing, of
the date when the vaccinators will enter a zail.
IX.—After six days the vaccinators will revisit the village, examine the children, and
get a supply of lymph of each caste, in tubes, for the next village, re-vaccinat-
ing unsuccessful cases.
X.—When one zail is done they are to pass into the next zail, reporting to the Hospital
Assistant, who will inform its zaildár.
" For office convenience each sub-division was supplied with different colored paper
for reports, and a return of the vaccinated children was ordered to be left in each village
with the chaukidár, by the vaccinators, for the convenience of the inspecting officers.
" Now, this scheme, theoretically good perhaps, has not altogether worked well, because
I could not get travelling allowance for the Hospital Assistants, having failed to ask for it
in the beginning of the season from the District Committee, and also because the new men
I procured were of very little use beyond writing down names—indeed, they did mischief in
the Najafgarh iláqua. However, in three sub-divisions where the Hospital Assistants inspect-
ed without an allowance, the work has been very quickly done, and done well—better than
it ever has been before, as the villagers themselves acknowledge; indeed, more than one place
has been discovered which vaccinators had never before visited, and also it appears to have
been the custom formerly, in places where the vaccinators were paid for it I suppose, for the
lambardárs to produce five children only, chcmárs or melders. They have been rather
astonished this year at having to produce all entered in the birth register, or to account for
them. If the vaccination had not been under the Hospital Assistants this would never
have come to light."
The amount and nature of work performed in the several sub-divisions of
the Delhi district, as also the great difficulty experienced by the district staff
in extending operations in them, are thus recorded :—
"In the sub-division of Najafgarh which I have well inspected myself, and where there
is a most efficient and active Hospital Assistant, only 47 children in the district and 15 in
the town of Najafgarh remain unvaccinated.
" In Sonepat, at the close of the year, 123 villages remaine 1, 90 having been done. I
am sorry to state that both in the town and district of Sonepat sub-division there has been
serious trouble. In Sonepat itself there was a squabble with the vaccinators, great irritation
about cow-killing unfortunately existing at the time; and in the villages of Hasanpur and
Malakpur there were also most unpleasant disturbances. A vaccinator, Jahángir, was
complained of for striking a lambardár in the former, and the villagers turned out en masse
to assault the vaccinators in the latter. I am persuaded that had the Tahsíldár taken
trouble to help the vaccinators in a more zealous manner, none of this would have occurred.
The sub-division of Sonepat was in charge of an Assistant Surgeon, who has done little or no
inspection duty. The persons who gave most assistance were Doongar, Mánphul and
Rám Bakhsh, zaildárs, and the lambardárs of Jakauli and Jagil.
" In the Bhawána sub-division 46 remained on the 31st December. Vaccination, except
in the villages of Kutubgarh and Kutlupur, was efficiently done under the superintendence
of Hospital Assistant Abdul Ghafúr. The two villages named refused to let their children be
touched. The persons who assisted were zaildárs Joda, Singh Rám, Anant Rám, Jaishi Rám
and Mohan Lál.
" The entire sub-district of Najafgarh was completed by the end of the year, and,
excepting the town of Najafgarh itself and the village of Nilwal, was thoroughly done. A
temporary vaccinator had to be dismissed for unskilfulness in this iláqua. The persons who
assisted were zaildárs Baldeo Singh, Rám Sahái, Khusháli Rám,Bhág Mal and Hukmi Chand.
Lakhwa, lambardár of Nagafgarh, is reported as refusing to either vaccinate his children
or help.
"The sub-division of Mahrauli has also been completed, but some villages will have to
be gone over again, as the work was done in a perfunctory manner by 1st-class vaccinator
Wazír Ali, who used to slip into Delhi when working any where close. There was consider-
able opposition in the town of Mahrauli, where some 30 children still remain, and among the
fanatic Khádims and pseudo-Shahzádas living in the numerous tombs and broken-down
villages in this district. I do not consider any zaildárs of this district at present deserving
of reward. This sub-division will have to be revisited as well as that of Farídabad, where
the work has not been quite satisfactory either, although the Tahsíldár of Ballabgarh gave
effective assistance, especially in the case of Tìlpat. In Farídabad town 60 children remain
unvaccinated.
" In Ballabgarh 73 villages have been done, 56 remain. The work has been fairly done
notwithstanding that the Hospital Assistant has turned sulky at not getting his travelling
allowance. The names of the persons who assisted most are zaildárs Imám Bakhsh, Gangá
Bakhsb, Pír Bakhsh and Sáhib Singh.