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the simple reason, he states, " that on my proceeding to inspect vaccination in
any town or village the unsuccessful cases were not produced." In the Municipal
towns he compared a good many of the tickets given to the parents of the
children with their corresponding counterfoils and found the entries correct.
The amount of assistance given and interest shown in vaccination work
by the different Municipal Committees showed a marked contrast. In the
Municipal towns of Kaithal and Pánipat great interest was apparently shown,
and every assistance personally given to the Civil Surgeon in collecting and
inspecting the children vaccinated. In Kaithal the Civil Surgeon would
especially wish to mention the name of Kázi Ghulám Nabi, a member of the
Municipal Committee, as having been of the greatest use to him, not only
in the city but in the surrounding villages. The Municipality of Pundri took
no interest and gave no assistance in inspecting the children. The Municipal
Committee of Karnál, with the exception of Nawáb Shamshere Ali Khán,
would give no assistance. This is well shown by the fact that out of
209 children vaccinated in the Karnál city the Civil Surgeon has only been
able to personally inspect 60. Repeated efforts have been made to obtain the
assistance of the members of the Karnál Municipal Committee in collecting the
remainder of the children. They declined doing so, said they had other work,
and finally stated that they were too fully engaged in the important work of the
forthcoming Local Self-Government elections, &c., to assist the Civil Surgeon.
Under the pressure brought to bear on them by the Deputy Commissioner they
offered to collect a small number of children each day until the Civil Surgeon had
seen them all. This would of course leave the door open to the probable fraud
of reproduction of the same children day after day, and was consequently refused.
In the larger Municipalities of Kaithal and Pánipat there was not the slightest
difficulty in having at least three-fourths of the entire number of children
vaccinated produced at one time for inspection. The natural explanation of the
supposed difficulty is to be found in the apathy and indifference of the members
of the Karnál Municipality to vaccination, with the single exception of Nawáb
Shamshere Ali Khán. This Nawáb has further set a good example by having
two of his own children vaccinated, such an example being much more valuable
than an infinity of the usual expressions of interest, &c.
HISSAR.
The vaccination establishment entertained, and the annual cost thereof,
during the years 1882-83 and 1883-84 are as below :—
Establishment
Native supervisor ... ... ...
1st class vaccinators ... ... ...
2nd „
„ ... ... ...
3rd
„
„ ... ... ...
Total ...
1882-83
Number
1
1
2
2
6
Annual
cost
Rs.
480
180
288
240
1,188
1883-84
Number
1
1
2
2
6
Annual
cost
Rs.
480
180
288
240
1,188
Total vaccinations (including primary and re-vaccina-
tions) ... ... ... ...
Successful cases ... ... ... ...
Percentage of successful cases ... ... ...
Persons successfully vaccinated per 1,000 of population
Average number vaccinated by each vaccinator ...
Cost of each successful case
...
...
...
1882-83
10,451
10,098
96.62
20.03
2,090.20
Re. 0-2-5
1883-84
12,291
11,582
94.23
22.97
2,458.20
0-2-2
The work performed
by the above establishment
during the two years is
shown in the margin.