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Hissar.—The Officiating Civil Surgeon, Lálla Lachman Dás, remarks:
" Vaccinators worked in pairs throughout the season, i.e., they were divided into
pairs at the start, and each pair held responsible for the amount of work done
in a particular town or rural circle to which the two men were sent by the Native
Supervisors from time to time as the operations extended, and work pro-
gressed from tahsíl to tahsíl successively. This arrangement seems to serve the
purpose fairly well. The Vaccinators remained at work in one tahsíl without
dispersing far and wide into the district, but not more than two were allowed
to work together in one town or village. As soon as one tahsíl was finished the
other was taken in hand. The Native Supervisor had no difficulty to watch
the work, having to travel in one and the same tahsíl where the men were
working for the time. One advantage of keeping the operators in pairs is that-
one man inspects the chowkidár's books, assists in collecting children, and makes
entries in his papers, &c., while his companion is engaged in the vaccine
operations This seems to prevent unnecessary delay. Besides this, two men
have to finish their work in time, and the reports they submit weekly to the
Civil Surgeon show what they were doing. The system of working in a body
has never been given a trial in this district, and it is not known how it works.
If all the Vaccinators with their Supervisors were allowed to remain in a town or
a rural circle collectively, the number of operations will probably decrease, and
there will be delay in finishing the work in time. There will also be obstruc-
tions in the work, if quarrels arose and the men did not pull on harmoniously.
It will, moreover, be impossible to judge what amount of work was being done
by each Vaccinator and with what success."
Rohtak.—The Officiating Civil Surgeon, Hurdyal Singh, states " that
vaccination work during the year 1898-99 was done in pairs; and in my opinion
this method is better than that of working in a body. By working in pairs
more work is done. One Vaccinator writes the name of the child and the other
vaccinates him. The system of working in a body has not been practised in this
district."
Gurgaon.—The Civil Surgeon, Rái Sobha Rám, states " that since the
issue of Sanitary Commissioner's Circular No. 2, dated the 9th September 1895,
vaccination work has been carried out in the district by tahsíls, one tahsíl at a time.
Vaccinators are divided into two parties, each party consisting of four Vaccinators.
Zails are distributed to each party, and after they have finished one tahsíl they
go to the next, and so on, until the whole district is traversed. The Native
Supervisor always remains close to his Vaccinators, supervising their work and
submitting returns, &c., from them."
As I have but very recently joined the district I cannot say by my
-personal experience, but from the records in the office I see, that the system
has proved far better than the old one in which Vaccinators are liable to
absent themselves from their work. The system of working in bodies means
that the Vaccinators may be kept more or less together to enable the Native
Supervisor and Civil Surgeon to supervise their work thoroughly."
Delhi.—The Civil Surgeon, Major J. C. Cunningham, I.M.S., states " that
the sytem of Vaccinators working in bodies is in practice in this district
since 1896. Before this they worked in pairs, i.e., two Vaccinators were
allotted to each tahsíl, so that vaccination was going on at one and the
same time in three different tahsíls, and it was not possible for Native
Superintendent to properly supervise the work of his staff. Since the
adoption of the present system of Vaccinators working in bodies the whole
strength of Vaccinators in this district is divided into two groups of six
Vaccinators each. One group is deputed to work in the city of Delhi, The
other group is sent out in the district and divided into two batches of three each.
They work in one tahsíl at a time, each batch being given a zail. Care is
taken that the zails where these batches work are contiguous to each other.
Under this system, the native Superintendent can exercise efficient super-
vision. The work under this method has improved over former times, and I
dare say this sytem will yield still better results under efficient management."
Karnal—The Civil Surgeon, Major H. M. Morris, I.M.S., states, "the
circles were divided to each Vaccinator in each tahsíl and the work was carried