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The Native Superintendent, Kalka Pershad, is a trustworthy and hard-working
man. His zeal brought on an attack of remittent fever, from which he narrowly
escaped with life. He is a Brahmin by caste, and taught his wife to vaccinate and fill
tubes with lymph, the latter no easy operation.
13. Benares.—The number of cases is greater this year by 1,240. The great
interest taken in the work from the very commencement by Mr. Lumsden, the Col-
lector, and Dr. Hooper, the Civil Surgeon, account in great measure for the increase.
This year the cantonment funds supported a vaccinater, who laboured in the sudder
bazaar, and the villages close by cantonments. Within the last two or three years
almost all the Government officials and resident Native nobles have had their children
vaccinated. The most influential classes in the city have certainly been overtaken,
though the mahajuns, as a body, stand aloof.
14. Ghazeepore.— This district is far ahead of the rest as regards the numbers vac-
cinated. It has an increase of 4,634. The Collector, Mr. Saunders, gave every assist-
ance both in supporting vaccination and in discountenancing inoculation, which has its
hot-bed in Ghazeepore. He always had the tehseel vaccinator in his camp, to whom
he gave every encouragement in approaching the most influential classes. I cannot
avoid mentioning here how all-important the moral support of the Collector is with
reference to vaccination. The tehseeldars and lower official grades take their cue from
their chief, and this influence penetrates even to the village putwaree Vaccination has
but a small chance of success when it is mingled up in the same sentence, in a Collector's
exhortation, with general sanitation, which, to a villager, means nothing; and with
cholera pills, which, from indiscriminate exhibition, bring more discredit on English
medicine than any good ever done by them can counterbalance. I mention this because
I have frequently heard Natives hint that vaccination was in the same category of ineffi-
ciency with cholera pills. But when the Collector takes the same amount of interest in
vaccination, per se as Mr. Saunders did, the outturn of work will amply repay it.
15. The Native Superintendent, Nursing Pershad, is by far the most intelligent
and experienced man in the Division. He selects the best men for training, is gifted
with a good presence and speech, and is not wanting in the requisite moral courage.
On my arrival in Ghazeepore, I was told of three Natives of position who held estates
in the district, viz., the Raja of Dumraon, Raja Simbu Narayan, and Baboo Hurry
Sunker Pershad. I wrote directly to Raja Simbu Narayan, and through Messrs Fox,
Dumraon, and Smyth, Benares, the agents respectively of Raja Dumraon and Baboo
Hurry Sunker Pershad. To all the three applications a favourable reply was received,
and vaccinators appointed. I have the pleasure of requesting that the thanks of Go-
vernment be awarded to these Native noblemen for their liberality; and that a copy of
your printed report be sent to each of them from your office.
16. Azimgurh.—In Azimgurh the work is greater by 697. The district contains
a larger number of Mahomedans than any other, save Ghazeepore. In the tehseels of
Aherowla and Deogaon are great numbers of the infanticide Thakoors, who are gene-
rally the most difficult subjects to deal with. The most useless man in the circle is the
local vaccinator of Sugree, whom I have recommended for dismissal. His weekly
reports were often ludicrous. He would have five or six successive blank days, and in
the column of "remarks" he would give a list of at least 10 or 12 villages which he
visited, but in which he could not persuade even one to be vaccinated. He is a low
caste man and intensely lazy.
17. Goruckpore.—In proportion to the number of vaccinators, the work at Go¬
ruckpore is very unsatisfactory. When the establishment was increased last year, a
great proportion of malees were appointed. Six of the number, however, resigned;
being uneducated men, they knew their inability to submit the necessary returns. I
think there has been a hurried and injudicious selection made to supply the vacancies,
but the experience of next season will enable my successor to weed out those found