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or continued as vaccinators, unless they have been exempted by the Director of
Public Health or unless the sanction of the Government to their employment has
been obtained, and that the payment of salary to such men from the funds of local
bodies is an illegal payment and may be surcharged.
In the matter of inaccurate registration all Collectors have been, requested
in paragraph 4 of G.O. No. 241-P.H., dated 4th February 1926, to instruct the
village headmen to co-operate with the health staff in vaccination work by keeping
the vaccination registers up to date. It is unsatisfactory that in several cases
union boards have failed to maintain their registers correctly and have not been
prompt to assist the Public Health staff in the issue of notices to parents and
guardians and the prosecution of defaulters.
All Collectors are requested to issue strict instructions to their subordinate
officers to ensure the despatch of immediate information to the Public Health Officers,
whenever smallpox breaks out in any town or village within their jurisdiction.
5. The Director of Public Health suggests that the question of transferring
the administration of vaccination in rural areas from Taluk Boards to District
Boards should be reconsidered. The Government will consider the suggestion,
if it is embodied in the proposals which the Director of Public Health has
under consideration in connection with the framing of Public Health Act for
this Presidency.
6. The Director reports that in the few cases in which sanction to prosecute
offenders against the vaccination regulations has been obtained, the courts have
only imposed very small fines, and he is of opinion that this has no deterrent effect
at all. He is requested to bring specific eases to the notice of District Magistrates,
or, if necessary, of the Government.
7. The suggestion of the Director that Act III of 1899 should be extended to
all rural areas is separately under consideration.
8. The Government would invite the special attention of the Presidents of
local boards to paragraph 6 of the Director's report, in which the Director quotes
instances of the difficulties experienced by District Health Officers in vaccination
work, and emphasises the need for closer co-operation between Presidents of local
boards and the District Health Officers in the administration of vaccination, and
the disciplinary control over vaccinators. The Government trust that, as already
advised in G.O. No. 389, Public Health, dated 4th March 1926, all Presidents of
local boards will give every consideration to the recommendations of District
Health Officers in all matters relating to the vaccination staff.
9. The Government are glad to note that during the triennium under review
there has been a very distinct advance throughout the Presidency in the success
attending vaccination operations, mainly as a result of the introduction of the
District Health Scheme and of the substitution of glycerine lymph for lanoline
lymph for use in vaccination.
(By order of the Government, Ministry of Local Self-Government (Public
Health) Department)
C. B. COTTERELL,
Secretary to Government.
To the Director of Public Health.
„ the Surgeon-General.
„ the Inspector of Municipal Councils and Local Boards.
„ the Law (General) Department.
„ the Revenue Department.
„ the Board of Revenue (Land Revenue and Settlement).
„ the Director of Public Instruction.
„ the Accountant-General.
„ the President, Corporation of Madras
„ Collectors and District Magistrates
„ Presidents of District Boards.
„ Chairmen of Municipal Councils.
„ the Examiner of Local Fond Accounts.
„ the Assistant Qnartermaeter-General.
„ the Consul-General for Netherlands.
„
do.
for Siam at Calcutta.
Editors' Table.