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7. European children, and the children of Native gentlemen, will be vaccinated at the
central Station at Byculla, between the hours of 7 and 9 o'clock, on Monday mornings.
8. The Local Superintendent will be engaged for three hours daily at a Station, and will
observe the utmost regularity in the hours of attendance.
9. In the event of the Local Superintendent being prevented by temporary illness from
attending to his duties, he will procure the services of a duly qualified Medical Practitioner ;
but in that case, the attendance will be limited to the time absolutely required to perform the
daily duties.
10. As there is a great uncertainty whether or not the children vaccinated will be brought
for inspection after Vaccination, it becomes, in the highest degree, important that the
operation should be performed with such care and skill as to ensure its success, except in cases
of an unusual nature. The Local Superintendent will therefore himself vaccinate as many
as possible of the children brought to the Station. He will always vaccinate directly from a
child, and will be scrupulously careful in the selection of the vesicle from which lymph is taken.
11. Domiciliary Vaccination from glasses, points, or crusts, is strictly prohibited.
12. The practice of sending vaccinated children to supply lymph to the houses of Euro-
pean or Native, residents having been abolished, is on no account to be revived; but every
facility will be afforded to persons desirous of entering into a pecuniary arrangement with the
parents of vaccinated children, to secure their attendance for the purpose stated. It must,
however, be distinctly understood, that the Vaccination Establishment will take no part in
such arrangement, and neither the Assistant Vaccinators, nor the Vaccinators' Peons, are to
accompany such children.
13. A Division of the Island will be allotted to each Assistant Vaccinator, who must reside
within its limits.
14. It will be the duty of the Assistant Vaccinator to visit as many as possible of the
houses in which children who have been vaccinated live; to bring to the notice of the Local
Superintendent every instance of failure or of irregularity in the progress of the vesicle ; and
to make himself acquainted, so far as may be practicable, with the number and residences of
the children in his Division who have not been vaccinated.
15. Whenever the number of children vaccinated in any one year shall exceed 8,000, a
percentage of 10 Rupees per 100 upon all the successful cases in excess of that number will
be allowed. Of this sum, one-third shall be received by the person by whom the operation has
been successfully performed ; the remainder will be equally divided amongst the members
of the Establishment.
REPORT FOR 1859.
ON the 31st of December 1859, the first complete year of vaccine operations, according to
the scheme proposed by Dr. Peet, terminated. His main proposition was to abolish domiciliary
Vaccination, and in its stead to establish vaccinating Stations and Depôts in different parts of
the Island, where children could be vaccinated by a duly qualified Medical man, with matter
taken directly from the arm of a successfully vaccinated child, thus securing, as much as
possible, the success of the operation performed—a step rendered the more necessary, as the
probablity of seeing children after being vaccinated was small, and the chances of the children
being brought to be re-vaccinated, when the first operations had failed, very few.
I was appointed Local Superintendent of the Department, and the duties of Vaccination
were made over to me, on the 1st of October 1858. I must freely confess that, when I first
made myself acquainted with the nature of the proposed scheme, I entertained grave doubts