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instance, while one writes the names down, the other vaccinates. If each
Vaccinator worked separately it is probable that a greater amount of work
would be done, but the difficulty of supervision is increased."
Jhang.—The Civil Surgeon, Lála Bhugwán Dás, states " the Vaccinators
in this district have worked in a body in the villages of one tahsíl, i.e., to say
each Vaccinator has worked above in a certain number of villages in one police
station of the tahsíl, and on finishing the first tahsíl all the Vaccinators went
to the second, third and fourth tahsíls and worked in the same way.
Montgomery.—The Civil Surgeon, Captain W. B. Lane, I. M.S., states
" that since the introduction of vaccination in this district two methods have been
adopted in carrying on the work ;
1st, working in pairs;
2nd,
do. in bodies.
1.—The first method consisted in sending out two Vaccinators in different
directions in the same tahsíl, starting from head-quarters. The Native Super-
visor inspected the work by turns or as necessity arose.
2.—The second method was adopted under the instructions of Circular
No. 11 of 1895, from office of Sanitary Commissioner and was carried out strictly
according to the directions laid down therein.
With reference to the advantage gained by either of the two systems, I am
of opinion that the former method, i. e., working in pairs, was much more efficient
in finishing the work during the vaccination season than the one introduced after
receipt of your office Circular No. 11. The whole thing actually depends
on the number of villages visited in a given time. Two Vaccinators going out in
different directions in the same tahsíl would traverse a much greater distance
than the whole body moving only in one direction, and it has actually been found
by experience that the number of individuals vaccinated is much greater by
the method of working in pairs than by the one introduced since 1895.
In this district the population is very scattered and by the Vaccinators
working in bodies there is not sufficient work for the whole lot of them, and
the result is that many are doing nothing when they could have been usefully
employed if sent out in different directions."
Lahore.—Rái Bahádur Brij Lál Ghose, Assistant Surgeon, Lahore, states
that "instead of good systematic work a great deal of confusion would
be caused when a large number of Vaccinators (without any head to direct) are
made to work at the same time in a limited area. In some cases the number of
the children would be too small to engage all these men. Besides in my
opinion it is not politic to have a large number of Vaccinators working in a vil-
lage or two or three villages, as this would cause inconvenience to the people and
may lead to discontentment. The Vaccinators having a great chance of shirk-
ing their duties, probably leaving on the junior hands the real work of vaccina¬
tions, and thus at the end we may find the work below the average. In my opinion
two Vaccinators are quite sufficient, one to vaccinate, the other to examine the
chaukidár's book, enter names and fill in results. The responsibility in this
way would not be divided."
Amritsar.—The Civil Surgeon, Captain D. T. Lane, I.M.S., states " that
Vaccinators worked in bodies in 1895-96 but the system was given up as it
appears it was not found to work well. When Vaccinators worked in bodies
there was a falling off in the number of vaccinations. I cannot say if the system
of working the Vaccinators in bodies was found defective in other respects."
Gurdaspur.—The Civil Surgeon, Rái Sahib Ditta Dingra, states "that
in this district the plan adopted for carrying out the vaccination work has been
in accordance with the instructions laid down in your Circular No. 11 of 1895, as
already reported in this office No. 176, dated 15th March 1898, viz., taking one
tahsíl, which is divided into certain zails, at a time, contiguous zails being taken
each by a pair of Vaccinators and the dates on which each zail is to be commenced
and done by the Vaccinators are previously arranged, and the statement thereof
prepared by the Vaccinator is submitted through their Native Supervisor to this