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10. Dr. Lidderdale expresses little hope of inducing inoculators to
become vaccinators on their own account; but the plan has met with a fair
amount of success in Chota Nagpore and elsewhere, and there is no reason
why, if proper instruction is given, and if the superintendent exercises tact
and discretion in the matter, it should not succeed also in this circle.
11. The Lieutenant-Governor observes that there is no statement of
the amount of inspection performed by superintendents, and he has had
reason during the year to doubt if the duty of personal supervision was
sufficiently attended to by Dr. Lidderdale. That gentleman now, at the end
of an unseemly and disputatiously written report, asks that he may be allowed
elephants for the purpose of moving about in the rains. As in the plains
scarcely any vaccination goes on in the rainy season, it is difficult to understand
the necessity of this, especially as no district or inspecting officers in those
divisions are allowed elephants by Government. If they require elephants
they hire them, and Dr. Lidderdale can do the same.
Lobardugga.
Hazarecbaugh.
Maunbhoom.
Singbhoom.
12. Ranchee Circle.—The establishment, consisting of the superintendent,
3 native superintendents, and 20 vaccinators, operated in the districts noted
in the margin, and vaccinated 23,313 persons,
or 4,212 more than the number in the previous
year. The cost was slightly reduced, but is still high, amounting to 7 annas
in each successful case. Dr. Wood appears, by good management, to have
obtained great assistance from influential men in several villages, which were
at first opposed to vaccination, and to have met with some success also in induc-
ing inoculators to come forward to receive instruction.
13. There is a circumstance mentioned in Dr. Wood's report (paragraph 16)
which is worthy of being inquired into—namely, that vaccination in the human
subject was supposed to have infected cattle, and was objected to on that account
in one part of the Chota Nagpore division. The Lieutenant-Governor would
wish to have this matter investigated, in order that such apprehensions might
be allayed.
14. Sonthal Pergunnahs Circle.—The Deputy Superintendent and 5
vaccinators working in this circle vaccinated 6,454 persons, being somewhat
above the number in the previous year, and the cost of each case amounted
to 6 annas ¼ pie. Both Dr. Chundra and the deputy superintendent, Kali
Krishna Ghose, appear to have done their work with much zeal and tact
among a people like the Sonthals. Dr. Chundra's success with the inoculators,
by whose means 5,322 persons are said to have been vaccinated without cost
to Government, presents a favourable contrast to the result reported in the
Darjeeling circle.
15. Dispensary Vaccination.—Not the least gratifying and important
feature in the report is the very great progress made in the dispensary system
of vaccination, by which 80,000 persons were vaccinated during the year at a
comparatively small cost; and the Lieutenant-Governor is glad to perceive that
the remarks on this head contained in paragraph 11 of the resolution of last
year have not been without effect. Dr. R. G. Matthew at Midnapore, Dr.
Jackson at Patna, Dr. T. Matthew at Monghyr, and Dr. Macleod at Sarun,
appear most prominently to have exerted themselves; and the Lieutenant-
Governor has much pleasure in noticing the praiseworthy efforts in all the
districts specially mentioned by the Inspector-General in paragraph 25 of his
report.
16. The Lieutenant-Governor concurs generally in the views of the
Inspector-General of Hospitals regarding the necessity of exercising great
care in the attempt hereafter to render vaccination self-supporting, and to
encourage villages to pay for their vaccinators. The system of working
through registered and instructed inoculators has been started as an experi-
ment, and it is too early to anticipate its result. The Lieutenant-Governor