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Vaccinators who used to be dispersed in the whole district. Under the present
system of working the Civil Surgeon can see what the Vaccinators are doing
at any time when he likes. By the method of working in bodies is understood
that the Vaccinators should commence work in a body at one part of the
district usually from head-quarters, and go on working under the immediate
Supervision of the Native Supervisor till they finish the whole district, while
by working in pairs is understood that the Vaccinators be distributed in pairs
at one time throughout the whole district, and go on working till each pair
has finished the work of the part of the district alloted to them."
D. I. Khan.—The Civil Surgeon, Captain P. S. C. More, I.M.S.. states
"that in October 1898 work was commenced at first in Dera Ismaíl Khan tahsíl.
The tahsíl was divided into seven circles among seven Vaccinators, each circle
containing a varying number of villages, due regard being had to population of
same. In these circles the Vaccinators worked separately from October 1898
to the middle of December 1898, and then the work was commenced in the
Bhakkar and Leiah tahsíls, respectively, here the Vaccinators worked together
in one locality or tahsíl at times. In my opinion this system is more satisfac-
tory than that of working in pairs in different tahsíls at the same time. By
this system the Vaccinators are carefully supervised and guided by the Native
Supervisor.
This year not a single complaint has been made by the Native Super-
visor regarding the whereabouts of the Vaccinators under his charge. Entirely
due in my opinion to their working together."
Dera Ghazì Khan.—The Civil Surgeon, Lieutenant J. A. Dredge,
I. M. S., states " that the system of the Vaccinators working in bodies has
been successful during the past year, the Native Supervisor and the Civil
Surgeon have been enabled to see more of the work and the way it is
carried out. The children in the district have all been vaccinated, the
number of successes have been very satisfactory, and the work of the
district was finished as early as usual. The Vaccinators themselves do not
like the system as well as the old one of working in pairs. They say it is
hard for one man to have to keep a list of children and check the chowkidárs'
books, as well as writing in them the children vaccinated and to check the
birth and death returns besides the actual vaccination, &c. In conclusion, I
would say that the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and that the work
has been very well carried out, and the punishment that it has been found
necessary to inflict on Vaccinators for neglect or absence, &c., during the past
year has been practically nil in this district. The system of working in bodies
where Vaccinators, new to the district, are concerned is not so easily carried
out as under the old system, because till they know the district and the easiest
way to get from village to village and the routine of the district, there is a
certain amount of time lost, there being no one to explain the way to carry out
the work as there was under the old system."
Muzaffargarh — The Civil Surgeon, Rai Bhugwan Das, states "that
Pandit Jaswant Rái (his predecessor) was compelled to divide the Vaccinators
into two groups, because he found the work done by them in one group was
comparatively very little, but I had to bring them all in one body, because I
found that the Native Supervisor could not inspect all the vaccine operations
in two different parts of the district, and most of the villages were found in
which the Vaccinators did not fill in the results either in their own or in the
village lambardár's books.
The Vaccinators urge that if they were all sent out to work in one
group the work will suffer, but in my opinion this is only a false excuse. The
reason why the work suffered in the early part of the season under report was
that all the Vaccinators went to one village, and that only two out of five
Vaccinators could work, and the other three had to sit idle. The fact is that
the Vaccinators do not wish to work in a body, as by doing so their work will
be better supervised and their results scrutinized, and they will not be allowed
to do what they like; so they do their best to show that by following the new
system the work would suffer. I think if the Vaccinators work in a body in
one zail after another, and the Native Supervisor be with them keeping an eye