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On the recommendation of the representative of the Tudor Company
(Messrs. Balmer Lawrie & Co.) new plates (positive and negative; have
been purchased and will be fitted during the ensuing year.
An electrician has been appointed in place of the head mistri and
Government has sanctioned the change of the designation from head
mistri to electrician.
The calf shed to bo used as a veterinary hospital has now been com-
pleted and a grain godown, an oil godown, a store room, and mistri's work-
shop are under construction.
The estimates for the construction of several other buildings have been
finally passed by Governrnent but funds have not yet been allotted.
Captain E. H. Morbey, Superintendent of the dépôt, has again carried
out his duties most satisfactorily, the dépôt being in excellent order and
the establishment having worked under his orders regularly and well. I
again bring his services to the notice of Government for recognition of
the excellent work done by him during the last 3½ years,
Improvements in the
department.
20. During the triennium under report the following improvements
were made in the department:—
(a) With a view to render the appearance of the assistant superintend-
ents of vaccination and vaccinators while on duty respectable and to demon-
strate to the public that they are officials, all the local bodies concerned
were, with the approval of Government, addressed on the subject of the
supply of uniforms of the prescribed description, to the vaccination staff
employed under them, at their cost. With the exception of a few, who
were unable to comply with the wishes of Government in the matter, on
account of their finances, the proposal was generally accepted.
(b) The qualifications required at present of the vaccination staff being
insufficient, it was suggested that if the pay of vaccinators is raised, a higher
standard should be required of future candidates. It was proposed that
all candidates for vaccinatorships should have passed either the annual
promotion examination of class VII of an English school or the Vernacular
Final Examination and that before examination they should undergo a
course of training in vaccination, elementary sanitation, etc., for six months,
under the medical officers of health of the districts or municipalities in
which they would be employed. The Local Government accepted the
proposal and addressed the divisional commissioners, requesting them to
ask all district and municipal boards in their divisions to consider the
desirability of adopting the standard for future candidates in the circum-
stances stated.
District
annual
vaccination returns.
21. Despite the fact that a circular letter was, as usual, issued to all
the district superintendents of vaccination and the
district medical officers of health requesting them to
submit the annual vaccination reports and returns duly completed and
corrected on the prescribed date, returns from several districts were
received very late and had to be returned for correction more than once.
The district superintendents of vaccination concerned will be addressed
on the subject.
NAINI TAL:
The 13th June, 1923.
C. L. DUNN, D.P.H.
LIEUT.-COL., I.M.S.,
Director of Public Health and Superin-
Undent General of Vaccination,
United Provinces.