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on tahsíl by tahsíl strictly in accordance with the instructions conveyed in
Sanitary Commissioner's Office Circular No. II, dated 9th September 1895. The
Karnál tahsíl was taken first, next Pánipat, and finally the Kaithal tahsíl. The
villages allotted to each Vaccinator were in parallel lines irrespective of the
Police stations or thánás in close proximity to one another, with such an
arrangement that the Native Supervisor might have every facility to supervise
and keep control on the working of his staff."
Umballa —The Civil Surgeon, Major W. R. Clark, I.M S., states " that
in this district there were 12 Vaccinators, out of them one was employed in
the Umballa city and the rest were divided into three batches in the beginning
of the vaccination season, and all the three batches were ordered to work in
one tahsíl at a time, the tahsíl being divided for this purpose into three
circles. The work done in this manner has been most satisfactory as is
apparent from the annual report already submitted."
Kangra—The Civil Surgeon, Major W. H. Elliott, I. M. S., states " that
the seven Vaccinators of the Kángra district working in the Hoshiárpur
district returned to this district by the 1st May 1898, while Pandit Bálkishan,
Inspector of Vaccination, reported his arrival in this district on the 6th May
1898. These, with the three Vaccinators kept in the district to meet emergencies,
carried on vaccination work throughout the year (in pairs as is done in the
Kángra district) as the district is thinly populated, a tahsíl of the district is
divided into some five halguás and two Vaccinators are sent to each halqua.
In short the work is divided and a tahsíl is vaccinated quickly. The Vacci-
nators on reaching the border of a tahsíl establish the lymph in the adjoining
villages of the other tahsíl."
Hoshiárpur.—The Civil Surgeon, Duni Chund Mehta, states " that in
this district Vaccinators have been working in bodies finishing one tahsíl at a
time, and then going to the other. Two Vaccinators work together where the
village is a big one, and lymph is to be obtained from a buffalo calf, or there are
other difficulties, otherwise each works separately, finishing all the villages of
one zail at a time, and then going to the next zail, the pair living together at
night in one village, and thus we supply one cooly for a pair. I have con-
sidered the matter fully, and am of opinion that this method is the best. My
reasons to form this opinion are given below : —
(1). We know where the Vaccinators are working, the Native
Supervisor follows them, and the Civil Surgeon can go after
them, and see for himself if the Vaccinators are doing their
work or not;
(2). The Vaccinators know that they are being followed, and thus, as
a rule, do not make any false entries. My Native Supervisor
is also of the same opinion."
Jullundur.—The Officiating Civil Surgeon forwards copy of notes by
Captain Coleman, I.M.S., late Civil Surgeon stating" that it does not appear
quite clear what working in a body means. If it implies that the whole 12 men
should never separate, e.g , that, say in a village of 400 souls (of whom 12 or 16
would be children fit for vaccination) all these 12 men should proceed to vacci-
nate the 12 and 15 children, thus the system is condemned primá facie. During
the vaccination year 1898-99, in Jullundur, the Vaccinators had a group of
villages each day, and moved in that group generally in pairs, so that they
were all easily within a visiting distance by the native Supervisor, Had I
remained in Jullundur, I proposed making the following arrangement; that each
day's work would be apportioned out before hand, two Vaccinators would go to
each village, the number of villages which could be done by one pair depending
in the size of the villages, at the end of the day all Vaccinators would arrive
at a village previously arranged on, and sleep there, with the native Supervisor,
next morning they would disperse amongst the next daily group of villages in
pairs and again at evening meet in a village previously named and arranged.
They could not then run off for a week to their homes unless with the conni-
vance of the Native Supervisor, and as all villages and dates had been months
before fixed, the Civil Surgeon could descend on them without warning and
find out whether they were at the spot where they should be or not.