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14. The extension of the Act prohibiting inoculation to all the villages comprehended
in the three Metropolitan vaccine districts, paragraph 29, is worthy of attention.
15. The Deputy Superintendents and establishment are most favorably reported on;
they have worked diligently and well.
16. Darjeeling Circle.—The vaccine operations have been superintended by Surgeon
R. Lidderdale. Vaccination is successfully performed in the hills, except during the months
of July and August, when only an inferior kind of vesicle can be produced.
17. Vaccination has been extended to Cooch Behar this season with promising results.
18. In Bograh, small-pox was present in several parts of the district, apparently
originated by inoculation. Vaccine operations were carried on vigorously till the 15th April,
when the operation was followed by so much inflammation that the people were most unwilling
to submit to the operation.
19. In Rungpore, Rajshahye, and Dinagepore, operations have been proceeding
tolerably well.
20. In the Ranchee Circle, Assistant Surgeon J. Wood, M.B., has succeeded Dr. E. J.
Hoskins, and conducted the operations energetically and well. Eight inoculators were
convicted and fined by the Deputy Commissioner of Lohardugga.
21. I do not consider the change in pay proposed in paragraph 23 at present advisable.
22. The vaccine operations in the Sonthal Pergumnahs were superintended by Sub-
Assistant Surgeon Baneymadhub Bose. He was much occupied in checking isolated out-
breaks of small-pox wherever they appeared. Some of his operators were not very skilful;
most of them could only obtain 5 successful cases in 100. They had therefore to vaccinate
over and over again. He has taught them, and hopes for better success next year.
23. The inefficient state of the establishment is attributed to the frequent changes in
the superintendents and the vaccinators, and this is attributed to the lowness of the pay.
The frequent change in the superintendents is to be regretted, and the pay is too small to give
the power of electing the best men. Much cannot be expected from the present establishment.
The Sub-Assistant Surgeon has tendered his resignation of the appointment.
24. With regard to the proposals made in the present year by the Superintendent¬
General for extending vaccination throughout the province of Bengal, and making it in some
measure self-supporting, inquiries are being made, by order, as to the systems in force in the
different circles, with a view to the general adoption of the system best organised. To
elucidate the subject, also, a sketch map has been called for, to show the extent of operations
in each circle, and the directions in which vaccination has been, and is being, diffused.
25. Also under consideration is a proposition to employ temporary establishments in
the working season by adding six assistant vaccinators to each gang. And in order to extend
the operations of the Darjeeling circle to the districts of Maldah and Purneah, and to ensure
proper supervision, it has been recommended that four native superintendents and twelve
vaccinators should be added to the establishment, which might be placed on an improved
footing by the introduction of a graduated scale of salaries.