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As the villages of three outlying tahsíls of the district were vaccinated
according to a uniform plan, one description of the method adopted will
apply to all. At the Civil Surgeon's request the Deputy Commissioner issued
orders for the division of each tahsíl into four parts; this being done, 2 vaccina¬
tors were told off to protect each part. From the chaukídárs' books they found
out the children born during the year, and, having vaccinated them, they made
an entry to that effect in these books; and also, on completion of work, lists
showing the children vaccinated in each village were sent to the thánadár.
Instead of these lists counterfoil books of tickets were used in the
municipal towns. This plan has many advantages—
(1) Men work better in company.
(2) It is known inmediately what man is responsible for bad work.
(3) The native supervisor has no difficulty in inspecting and checking
work done.
(4) The inspecting officer, Civil Surgeon or Assistant Surgeon, has,
in the lists sent to the thánadárs, complete details neces-
sary for a perfect checking system.
Adopting this plan, then, the staff protected the Muktsar tahsíl, after
which they worked on to villages north-east of the Ferozepore tahsíl which
had not previously been protected ; thence they proceeded to adjoining tahsíls
Moga and Zíra, returning to Ferozepore about the middle of March—till the
end of the month they worked in Ferozepore, vaccinating the children born
during the previous six months. During their tour of vaccination they ex-
perienced no difficulty except in the Moga tahsíl, where some of the villagers
opposed the vaccination of their children.
When Dr. Polden assumed charge in January 1884, he was informed that
only the vaccination in Ferozepore town had been inspected by his predecessor;
he therefore determined to inspect the municipal towns and villages of the district,
particularly as he found that the tickets in the counterfoil books of tickets, made
according to the sample received from this office, were in some cases not properly
completed.
Before proceeding on tour he wrote to the Deputy Commissioner inform-
ing him of the exact time at which he should arrive at the villages en route, and
requesting that he should issue an order for collecting the children of these
villages at the time mentioned. The District Superintendent of Police was also
requested to order his thánadárs to hand over temporarily to each village
chaukídár the list of children vaccinated in his village during the year. This
list was to be shown to the Civil Surgeon at the time of his inspection. It
is found that this plan worked well, but the number of villages seen was
comparatively small.
The Civil Surgeon, when about to start on his second tour of inspection,
requested that children of villages within about a mile's radius of certain places
named, should be brought into these places for inspection. He was not sure
whether this plan would be successful, and feared that the villagers might have
objected to bring their children so far ; however, he found that the people came
in most willingly, and not only so, but of their own free will, from villages more
distant than he had requested.
The Civil Surgeon's third tour was through the Ferozepore, Muktsar and
Zíra tahsils, where the people understand and fully appreciate the vaccination
work done for them; he therefore asked that the children of the villages within
4 or 5 miles circuit should be collected at appointed hours at certain places.
The result was most satisfactory, the people crowded in from all parts, and in
very many cases not one. child of the village who had been vaccinated was absent;
thus during this tour he saw nearly 350 villages, and at one place, Makhu, he
inspected the children of no less than 61 villages The Civil Surgeon attributes
the willingness with which the people in the Zíra, Muktsar and Ferozepore tahsíls
accept vaccination to the work done amongst them by the old vaccine depart-
ment's vaccinators, who regularly visited these three tahsíls.