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UNITED PROVINCES OF AGRA AND OUDH.
33
VACCINATION FORM No. 6.
Weekly statement showing villages and towns in which new vaccinations were
performed during the last week.
Name of tahsíl—name of district—
Date of
vaccination.
Name of village
or mohalla with
town.
Distance and
direction from
tahsíl.
Total ...
New operations.
Primary.
Revaccina¬
tion.
Total.
This statement should be submitted to the Assistant Superintendent of Vaccination
immediately after the expiry of the week and the Vaccinator should fill in all new vaccina-
tions in this list very carefully.
Date—
Signature of Vaccinator —
5
34
MANUAL OF VACCINATION FOR THE
VACCINATION FORM NO. 7.
Statement showing inspections made by the Assistant Superintendent of
Vaccination of—district for the—week
of—
190 .
Date of
inspection.
Name of village
with tahsíl and
name of mohalla
with town.
Total ...
Result of Inspection.
Successful.
Unsuccess-
ful
Absent.
Total.
Name of
vaccinator.
Conduct and work
of vaccinator.
State of lymph and
instruments.
State of register.
This statement should be forwarded to the District Superintendent of Vaccination
immediately after the expiry of the week.
Date—
Signature of Assistant Superintendent of
Vaccination.
UNITED PROVINCES OF AGRA AND OUDH.
35
VACCINATION FORM No. 8.
Statement showing the amount of work performed, with names of villages
or mohallas of—district
in which vaccinations were performed
during the month of—190
Name of tahsíl
or town.
Name of village or
mohalla.
Total ...
Number of vaccinations.
Successful.
Unsuccess-
ful.
Absent.
Total.
Name and address
of the person with
whom Register
No. 5 is left.
This statement should be submitted to the Collector within eight days after the expiry of
the month.
Date—
Signature of
Vaccinator—
36
MANUAL OF VACCINATION FOR THE
VACCINATION FORM No. 14.
Return of vaccination in the—Municipality for the month
of—190
Number.
Name
of
vaccinator.
Name of
station
or circle.
Total ...
Primary vaccination.
Sex.
Male.
Female.
Total.
Class.
Christians.
_
Muhammadans.
Hindus.
Other classes.
Total.
Result.
Successful.
Unsuccessful.
Absent.
Total.
Age of successful
case.
Under one year.
One and under
six years.
Six years and
upwards.
Total.
Re-vaccination.
Sex.
Male.
Female.
Total.
Successful.
Increase or decrease in com¬
parison with the corresponding
month of the previous year.
Total of successful
primary vaccinations
and re-vaccinations
for the present month.
Total of successful
primary vaccinations
and re-vaccinations
for the correspond-
ing month of the
previous year.
Increase.
Decrease.*
NOTE.— To be submitted to the District Superintendent of Vaccination within seven days after the month to which it relates.
* Decrease in work should always be explained in forwarding letter.
DATED
The
190 .
Superintendent
of
Vaccination.
UNITED PROVINCES OF AGRA AND OUDH.
37
VACCINATION FORM No. 18.
Register showing the vaccination work inspected by Assistant Superintendent of Vaccination.
Name of
mohalla or
village.
Date of inspection.
Name of
vaccinator.
Result of inspection.
Primary vaccination.
Successful.
Unsuccessful.
Absent.
Total.
Revaccination.
Successful.
Unsuccessful.
Absent.
Total.
Number of wrong entries (i.e.
unsuccessful cases recorded as
successful or
revaccinations
entered as primary, &c.) detect-
ed, with number and date in the
roznámcha.
Number of fictitious entries
(i.e. names once entered, re-
peated or names of persons not
vaccinated recorded &c.) detec¬
ted, with number and date in the
roznamcha.
Action taken by the District
Superintendent of Vaccination.
Remarks.
Conduct of the vaccin-
ator.
Condition of
vesicle,
lymph and instruments.
Number of vacci-
nations up to date of inspection.
Current year.
Previous year.
38
MANUAL OF VACCINATION FOR THE
SANITARY FORM No. 9.
Chaukidár's Register of Births.
No.
Date of birth.
Father's name and caste.
Sex.
Signature of Muharrir
with date.
Chaukidár's Register of Deaths.
No.
Date.
Name of
deceased.
Sex. Age.
Disease or
cause.
Name and caste
of father or
head of house.
Signature of
Muharrir
with date.
UNITED PROVINCES OF AGRA AND OUDH.
39
SANITARY FORM No. 42.
Statement showing the omissions in the Birth and Death Registers examined during the month of
190 , by the
Tahsíl,
thána and
village.
Date of visit.
Name of
chaukidár.
Births.
Total number of birth
entries tested.
Number of omissions.
Date of birth.
Name of
child.
Sex.
Father's
name.
Caste.
Death.
Total number of
death entries tested.
Number of omissions.
Date of death.
Name of
deceased.
Sex.
Age.
Caste.
Disease
or
cause.
Name of
father or
head of
house.
Remarks.
Place
Date
Signature.
Designation
Addenda and Corrigenda to the Vaccina-
tion Manual.
(First list of corrections.)
1.
2.
3.
4.
No. 1.
Page 5, para. 10.
(a) Substitute " 50" for "49" in second line and
" 913 " for " 899 " in third line.
(b) Delete the words " and Tehri Garhwal " from the
sixth line.
(c) For the sentence " There is a separate Assistant
Superintendent of Vaccination for the Tehri
State " substitute the following:—
" But in Gorakhpur there are two Assistant Superinten-
dents of Vaccination and there is a separate Assistant Sup-
erintendent of Vaccination for the Family, Domains of His
Highness the Maharaja of Benares."
No. 2.
Page 6, para. 11, Rule V (a).
Insert the word "day's" in the second line between the
words " when his " and " work."
No. 3.
Page 6, Rule VI.
For "and again enter the name in three registers,"
substitute "and make entries in three registers as fol-
lows :—
The columns showing "caste and sex " in Vaccination
form No. 1 should be left blank. In vaccination forms
nos. 5 and 5 (a), which show the number of persons vacci-
nated, the columns showing "serial number" and "number"
respectively, should bo left blank. To find out the total
number of persons vaccinated, only the entries made in
column "sex" in vaccination form No. 1 should be totalled:
column 2 of that form showing the number of vaccinations
performed."
No. 4.
Page 6, rule XII.
Delete the words "mistakes or" occurring in second
line.
G. Os. Nos. 78/IX-
E.B. 31-3, dated the
15th January 1906,
138/XVI-31, dated
the 19th March
1908 and
194/
XVI-9, dated the
24th March 1910.
G. G. O. (Home
Department / Sani-
tary) No. 171, dated
the 29th January
1809, G. O. No. 123/
XVI—32,
dated
the 15th February
1909 and G. O. No.
460/XVI-95, dated
the 8th July 1909.
Rule 5, page 38,
Department XVI,
Manual of Govern-
ment Orders
( 2 )
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
G.O.No. 142/XVI-
939-B, dated the
1st June 1907,
G. G. O. (Home
Department / Muni-
cipalities) No. 190-
202, dated the 27th
November 1906, and
G. O. No. 419/X-1-
2, dated the 4th
February 1907.
Government noti-
fication No. 968/IX-
21, dated the 9th
July 1907 (rule 5,
page 73 of District
Board Manual).
G.O.No.142/XVI—
939-B, dated the 1st
June 1907.
No. 5.
Page 7, rule XVII
(i).
Insert "one scarifier" after the words "provided with."
No. 6.
Page 9, para. 13 (b).
Delete rule (ii) and renumber the succeeding rules as
rules (ii), (iii), &c.
No. 7.
Page 9, para. 13 (b), present rule VII.
Substitute " of vaccinators " for "as enrolled' Govern-
ment servants " in the second line and "a" for " an enrolled"
in the last line of this rule.
No. 8.
Page 9, para. 13(b).
Delete present rule VIII and renumber succeeding rules
as VIII, IX, &c.
No.9.
Page 10, para. 14.
(a) Substitute "in which case lymph should be
obtained from the Medical Officer in charge,
Government Bovine Lymyh Dépôt, Patwa
Dangar, via Jeolikote " for the words "in which
case lymph................ Commissioners" occurr-
ing in the second sentence.
(b) Delete the third sentence.
(c) Substitute fullstop for comma in the fourth sen-
tence and delete the words " and a supply of
lymph is continuously kept up."
No. 10.
Page 11, para. 15.
(a) Insert " Weir's Scarifies and " between " axe "
and "the vaccine needle" in second line..
(6) Delete last sentence
( 3 )
11.
12.
13.
14.
No. 11.
Page 13, rule 19 (b).
Insert, " including the United Provinces" between
" Provinces " and " in India " in the second sentence.
No. 12.
Page 24, rule (1).
Insert the word "scarifiers" between "their'" and
" points " in first line and substitute " metal" for " wooden"
in third line.
No. 13.
Page 24, rule XVII.
Delete the words "errors or " from line 2.
No. 14.
Substitute the following for column "successful" under
" Re-vaccination" in forms nos. 2, 3 and 14, printed on
pages 30, 31 and 36 respectively:—
Result.
Successful.
Unsuccessful.
Absent.
Total.
G. Os. Nos. 142/
XVI—939-B., dated
the 1st Jane 1907,
and 240/XVI-38,
dated the 8th April
1909.
Bale 5, page 38,
Department XVI
of the Manual of
Government Orders.
G. G. O. (Home
Department / Sani-
tary) No. 171, dated
the 29th January
1909, G. O. No. 123/
XVI-32, dated the
15th February 1909
and G. O. No. 460/
XVI-95, dated the
8th July 1909.
( 4 )
15.
16.
17.
No. 15.
Insert the following as footnotes to form no. 1 printed
on page 129:—
(1) Difference of ............ between the number of primary
operations performed (total of column " result ") and the number of
persons vaccinated (total of column "sex") represents secondary
operations.
(2) Difference of ............ between the number of revaccina-
tions performed (total of column " result ") and the number of
persons revaccinated (total of column " sex ") represents secondary
operations.
No. 16.
Insert the following as footnotes to forms nos. 2, 3
and 14 printed on pages 80, 31 and 36 respectively :—
(1) Difference of ............ between the number of primary
operations performed (total in column " result ") and the number of
persons vaccinated (total in column " sex ") represents secondary
operations.
(2) Difference of ............ between the number of revaccinations
performed (total in column " result") and the number of persons
revaccinated (total in column "sex")
represents secondary
operations.
No. 17.
Insert the following as a footnote to forms nos. 5 and
5a printed on page 32 : —
When a second operation is performed on an individual on
account of failure on the first occasion, the columns showing " serial
number " in form no. 5 and that showing " number" in form no. 5a
should bo left blank.
G.G. O. (Home Dep-
artment / Sanitary)
No. 171. dated the
29th January 1909,
G. O. No. 123/XVI-
32, dated the 15th
February 1909 and
G. O. No. 460/XVI-
95, dated the 8th
July 1909.
G. G. O. (Home
Department / Sani-
tary) No. 171, dated
the 29th January
1909, G. O. No. 123/
XVI-32, dated the
15th February 1909
and G. O. No. 460/
XVI-95, dated the
8th July 1909.
G. G. O. (Home Dep-
artment / Sanitary)
No. 171, dated the
29th January 1909,
G. 0 No. 123/XVI-
32", dated the 15th
February 1909 and
G. 0. No. 460/XVI-
105, dated the 8th
July 1909.
J. CHATTOR WHITE. LIEUT.-COLONEL, I.M.S.,
Sanitary Commissioner, United Provinces.
First list of corrections.]
[24th March 1910.
REPORT
ON
VACCINATION PROCEEDINGS
THROUGHOUT THE GOVERNMENT OF BENGAL
(PROPER.)
WITH AN APPENDIX.
CALCUTTA:
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING.
1868.
ERRATA.
Dr. W. A. Green's Report.
Page 3, line 18, for "to" read "by."
„ 13, „ 21, for "hukims" read "hukeems."
„ 13, „ 35,
ditto
ditto.
„ 18, „ 15, for "to it" read "it to."
„ 22, „ 8, marginal note should be placed opposite para. 72.3
„ 22, „ 16, for "those" read "that."
„ 22, „ 19,
ditto
ditto.
INDEX.
First Report on vaccination in Bengal Proper ...... ...... ...... ......
History of vaccination ; sources of information
......
......
......
......
Earliest record of vaccination
......
......
......
......
......
......
One system of vaccination throughout India; its imperfection ...... ...... ......
Superintendent General of Vaccination at Calcutta, his duties and their rela-
tion to the authority of the Medical Board
......
......
......
......
Assistance of the Civil authorities and native influence afforded in aid of
vaccination
......
......
......
......
......
......
......
......
The Bombay system of vaccination
......
......
......
......
......
Vaccination in Bengal Proper
......
......
......
......
......
......
The Bombay system introduced into the N. W. Provinces. A new era of
vaccination
......
......
......
......
......
......
......
Recapitulation. History of vaccination more in detail, giving the salient points
in order of date and sequence
......
......
......
......
......
......
Dispensary vaccination
......
......
......
......
......
......
......
Large vaccine depôts abolished
......
......
......
......
......
......
The Government Vaccinators of Districts become Dispensary servants. Civil
Surgeons are called upon to pay more attention to vaccination
......
......
Deputation and Travelling Allowance given to Civil Surgeons for inspecting
Vaccination
......
......
......
......
......
......
......
......
Dr. Pearson's appointment, his system of vaccination in the N. W, Provinces ...
Hill depôts of vaccination
......
......
......
......
......
......
The independent Dispensary system of vaccination still continued
......
...
Agra vaccine division, or circle set up
......
......
......
......
......
......
Hill depôts of Simla superseding Subathoo
......
......
......
......
......
Progression of vaccination
......
......
......
......
......
......
Other vaccine divisions set up in the N. W. Provinces and in the Punjab ...
Vaccine system in the Punjab
......
......
......
......
......
......
Jhansie and Allahabad Vaccine Circle
......
......
......
......
...
Madras vaccination, its original status and subsequent improvement ... ......
Central Provinces and Oudh vaccination
......
......
......
......
...
Bengal Proper vaccination improved. Calcutta vaccination under the Superin-
tendent General at the Presidency Town ...... ...... ...... ...... ....
Vaccination extended to tracts around Calcutta, where small-pox inoculation
prohibited
......
......
......
......
......
......
......
New Vaccine Circle, composed of four districts encircling Calcutta, proposed ...
Small-pox inoculation prohibited in places
......
......
......
......
...
An increased staff of vaccinators allowed for the extended operations around
Calcutta
......
......
......
......
......
......
......
......
Municipalities support Vaccinators
......
......
......
......
......
...
Bengal Zillah vaccination unsatisfactory
......
......
......
......
Bengal Proper, new circles of vaccination
......
......
......
......
...
PARA.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
24
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
ii
Character of Vaccine Virus
......
......
......
......
......
......
Instrument used in vaccination
......
......
......
......
......
......
Converting and employing the native inoculators of small-pox
......
......
Deterioration of Lymph
......
......
......
......
......
......
...
Arm to arm vaccination
......
......
......
......
......
......
......
Vaccinations performed in the whole of the Bengal Presidency ...... ...... ...
Report of the Superintendent General of Vaccination at Calcutta. Quality and
preservation of Lymph
......
......
......
......
......
......
A large Establishment required for Calcutta ...... ...... ...... ...... ......
Vaccination without the Suburbs of Calcutta
......
......
......
......
Extra Superintendents required for vicinity of Calcutta
......
......
...
Darjeeling Circle of vaccination
......
......
......
......
......
......
Ranchee Circle of vaccination
......
......
......
......
......
...
Sonthal Pergunnah vaccination
......
......
......
......
......
......
District and Municipal vaccination
......
......
......
......
......
...
Detached vaccination at Sankerberiah
......
......
......
......
......
......
Moveable vaccine establishment
......
......
......
......
......
......
...
Contents of figured statement
......
......
......
......
......
......
PARA.
34
35
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
54
62
63
68
70
73
REPORT
ON
VACCINATION PROCEEDINGS
THROUGHOUT THE GOVERNMENT OF BENGAL PROPER,
WITH AN APPENDIX.
From DR. W. A. GREEN, M. R. C. P., Lon. Inspector General of Hospitals, Lower
Provinces, to the Secretary to the Government of Bengal.
First Report
on Vaccination
in Bengal Pro-
per.
As the system of Vaccination has been very considerably extended
and unfolded within the last two or three years in Bengal, thus bringing
it, in its wider and more complete operations, up to the level of vacci-
nation in the Bombay Presidency, in the North-Western Provinces, and
the Punjab; and as the Government of Bengal has called for a distinct
report upon the proceedings of the vaccine department working under
its orders the whole vaccine proceedings in Bengal Proper, will,
therefore, be published in a separate shape, comprising the reports,
for the year and season of the several vaccine superintendents, together
with a numerical statement of results in a tabular form.
History of Vac-
cination, sources
of information.
2. Before proceeding to comment upon the several reports herein
published, it may be interesting to give a brief summary of the origin,
progress, and advancement in improvement of vaccination in British
India generally. I shall draw my details principally from the
report on vaccination in Bengal by Dr. Stewart, Superintendent
General of Vaccination at Calcutta, published at Calcutta in 1844;
from the proceedings of the Government, North-Western Provinces
which resulted in the introduction of the Bombay system of vaccination
into the North-Western Provinces in 1854-55; from the proceedings of
the Punjab Government in 1863, which issued in the introduction of
a systematic working of vaccination under a European Superintendent
A
2
VACCINATION PROCEEDINGS THROUGHOUT
from the report of the Superintendent General of Vaccination for
Calcutta of 1865; and from the numerous annual reports on vaccination,
published by the several Governments of the whole of British India,
and from the proceedings of the several administrations upon these.
Earliest record
of vaccination.
3. Vaccination, it is alleged, was first introduced into India under
the auspices of the Right Hon'ble Lord Clive, in the year 1802. The
earliest report on vaccination in Bengal is that of Dr. Shoolbred, Surgeon
to the Native Hospital at Calcutta, for the year 1804, published by order
of Government in 1805. The total number vaccinated during 1804, in
the Bengal Provinces (including, besides, Prince of Wales' Island and
Fort Marlborough) was 8,140. Dr. Shoolbred enumerates, amongst the
difficulties besetting the spread of vaccination, the avowed hostility of the
whole body of native small-pox inoculators. Thus early, too, it was
proposed to conciliate the opposition of the small-pox inoculators, by
engaging a certain number of the most considerable amongst them to
practise vaccination instead of small-pox. Dr. Shoolbred pressed this
scheme with considerable success. Many small-pox inoculators were
thus enlisted in the cause of vaccination, and adhered to vaccination,
they and their children, for a long period afterwards. A paper was
signed by 26 of these inoculators at this early time, declaring their full
conviction of the anti-variolous power of the vaccine disease, of its entire
freedom from danger, and that they were not aware of any circumstance
which should render its adoption improper by any rank of Hindoos.
One system of
vaccination
throughout
India. its imper¬
fection.
4. The system of vaccination throughout British India at this
period, and for many years up to 1827, seems to have been pretty much
the same throughout the whole country, and in the different Presi-
dencies and Governments. The work of vaccination was entrusted
to the supervision of Civil Surgeons at the larger zillah stations
throughout the country, who had a staff of native vaccinators under
them. The Civil Surgeons worked for the most part under the Super-
intending Surgeons, who, again, were directed by the Medical Board,
The native vaccinators at first, in some places, were paid head-money for
each person vaccinated; subsequently they were entertained as perma-
nent servants; subsistence allowance or small presents of money were
sanctioned by Government to be given to those bringing their children
to be vaccinated, and allowing arm to arm vaccination from their
children. But in all the Presidencies this system was pronounced to be
a failure, because the vaccinators were too few, and it was found
necessary to take vaccination to the very doors of the apathetic natives of
THE GOVT. OF BENGAL PROPER.
3
this country, which could not be done. There was next to no inspec-
tion or supervision of the native vaccinators; their returns were there-
fore declared to be unsatisfactory. Civil Surgeons had not time to
inspect and see that they did their work properly. The Bengal Medi-
cal Board in December 1828, in recommending changes in the vaccine
system, observe that in the Provinces and out of Calcutta a pure and
genuine lymph cannot be maintained during certain months of the year,
and that a spurious disease is thus propagated by the native vaccinators.
Dr. Pearse, Secretary to the Medical Board at Madras, in a report sub-
mitted by the Board to the Government of India, on the state of vacci-
nation within the Madras Presidency, writes in 1841, " that the conduct
of the native vaccinators is as satisfactory as can be expected from
persons, the faithful performance of whose duties must, notwithstanding
the few checks over them, be in a great measure voluntary."
Superintendent
General of Vac¬
cination at Cal-
cutta, his duties
and their rela-
tion to the au-
thority of the
Medical Board.
5. The office of Superintendent General of Vaccination at Calcutta
seems to have been instituted early in this century, and attached to it
appears to have been a general direction of vaccination within the Presi¬
dency; but from 1816, as related to Dr. D. Stewart, the duties of the
office were confined to Calcutta, and a salary of Rs. 300 a month then
fixed for the appointment ; the general superintending duties were
transferred to the Medical Board, his duties having been henceforth
comprised in keeping up vaccination under European personal inspec-
tion, and in maintaining the vaccine lymph in its purity and integrity,
and establishing a vaccine depôt, whence sound vaccine lymph was dis-
tributed all over the Presidency; receiving, besides, periodical supplies
of lymph from the National Institution in London for annual distribu-
tion throughout Bengal. This seems to have been well accomplished, at
Calcutta especially, during a number of years. An officer of the same kind,
with general control and superintendency over vaccination at the Presi-
dency Town, existed at Madras; the management of the department
there rested in the hand of the chief medical authority.
Assistance of
the civil authori-
ties and native
influence afford-
ed in aid of
vaccination.
6. During these early years the assistance of the civil authorities
was invoked and obtained; the collector in his superior sphere, the
zemindars, the talookdars, teshildars, and the head-men of villages
were kept informed of the names and numbers of the vaccinators
employed, and were directed to look to the operations of these officers of
Government in their estates, in the district and villages, and to inspect
and check their registers of vaccination.
The Bombay
system of vac¬
cination
7. The first grand step of advancement in the vaccine system
in British India owes its origin to the enlightened rule of the Hon'ble