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ABSTRACTS OF REPORTS OF CIVIL SURGEONS.
they never comply with it. Four of these men have been prosecuted this year for inoculat-
ing within municipal limits. At Behar, some few passes were granted in Mr. Broadley's
time, and the hospital assistant reported that they performed and brought for inspection
175 cases. This is promising, inasmuch as inoculation is not forbidden there. No inocula¬
tors were trained at Barh.
Small-pox.
" Small-pox has been tolerably prevalent all over the district, but in no place was it so
bad as to necessitate any exceptional measures."
Gya district.
Gya District.—Vaccination has made considerable progress in this district. The number
of operations performed during the season being really three times as many as in the
previous year.
The following is Dr. R. Macleod's report on the subject:—
Staff employed.
" 1. The vaccine operations were carried on by a staff of four vaccinators. Two of
these were paid by Government, and two by the municipalities of Nowada and Aurangabad.
The two former are permanent and are attached to the Sudder Station, the latter were
entertained from the 1st November to 31st of March 1873, and were attached to their
respective sub-divisions. They were all paid at the rate of Rs. 10 a month.
" 2. The Government vaccinators were employed throughout the year generally in
localities where small-pox was prevalent. Those paid from local funds were employed at
the sub-division under the supervision of the native doctor attached to the lock-up.
" 3. Some time before the commencement of the vaccination season I communicated
with the chairman of the municipality and with the sub-divisional officers, with the view
of obtaining sanction for the employment of one vaccinator at each sub-division, and two
within the municipal limits of Gya. The commissioner of the division through the
magistrate of the district sanctioned the employment of a man at each sub-division, but
the municipal commissioners of Gya refused my application, on the grounds that, as the
municipality had already granted a donation of Rs. 50 a month to the dispensary, they
could not further aid it. The vaccinators attached to the sudder station carried on their
operations in the town and in some of the neighbouring villages. In the town it was inex-
pedient to define limits within which the work was to be carried on. The feeling of the
people against it is so strong that it was necessary to resort to any measures that would
induce them to allow their children to be vaccinated. A small tract of country, comprising
five villages, at a distance of 10 and 8 miles from the station, was thoroughly protected,
and it will not be a matter of any difficulty to extend this area next season, as the people
showed no opposition to the practice of vaccination.
" The sub-divisional vaccinators accompanied their respective magistrates on the cold
weather tour, and when they arrived at any populous town they stayed as long as they
could get work to do.
Result of inspection
" 4. The result of inspection was, on the whole, satisfactory. All the cases in the town
were inspected by house-to-house inspection, either by the civil surgeon or the sub-assist-
ant surgeon, who took the duty alternately. All the cases in the neighbourhood of Gya—
most of those of the Aurangabad sub-division, and many of those of Nowada,—were inspect-
ed by the civil surgeon, who visited those places as often as allowed by his station duties.
The result of inspection always verified the reports, so that I had no fault to find with the
vaccinators. They never tried to deceive me.
Amount of work
done.
" 5. The amount of work done during the year contrasts favorably with that of former
years. Last year there were 484 cases as against 1,207 cases for this year. Whenever it
was practicable, the work was confined to a limited area. In the Aurangabad sub-division
I thought it better to employ the vaccinator at the town of Daoodnagore, a place of con-
siderable importance, than to let him accompany the magistrate further on his tour. The
result was most satisfactory. He was employed at that place during most of the season.
Nowada.
" At Nowada the work was as much as possible confined to villages near the sub-
divisional head-quarters, where the vaccination could be supervised by the native doctor.
Opposition stronger
in the town than
in the mofussil.
"6. In the town of Gya, where the people have for years past been accustomed to see
and hear of vaccination, the prejudice against it is very strong. In the mofussil, on the
other hand, I found that, on the harmlessness and the many advantages of the system being
explained to the people, they readily agreed to adopt it.
" Daoodnagore is a case in point.