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being to obtain some data for future taxation. My visits of inspection, therefore, among
these villagers may be viewed by them, not with reference to the supposed benefit con-
ferred, but to the permanency or otherwise of the marks made. The natural result of
refusing vaccination in these cases would therefore be, that the fewer the marked children
the lighter would be the taxation; the carefully recorded results left in the villages,
and entered in the vaccinator's diary, would, if the circumstance of the benefit were
doubted, tend to strengthen the belief that the real intention of the Government was
with reference to some future action. I have said above " opposite circumstances,"
as nothing could be more opposite than vaccination and taxation, the one being
purely optional, and the other compulsory by heavy legal penalties, and this, of course,
was the answer to these objections. I am happy to state that the above objection was
broached in only one district out of the twelve, and, strange to say, this was in Meerut,
and in the adjoining tehseel to that in which the story of the search for the child with
milk instead of blood originated. With reference to the castes of the cases operated on,
there cannot be a doubt that, as a rule, vaccination is carried on most extensively
among the lower castes ; and as these seem to be entered in the mortuary returns as
"other classes" though Hindoos, from their not being Brahmins, probably, it would
be interesting to note, were it possible, if these lower-caste classes in the villages
enjoy an immunity from small-pox from which the Brahmins and higher castes are
exempt. In conclusion, I would beg to bring to the notice of Government the name
of Thakoor Koomar Jugmundo Singh of Budwas, in the Etah Zillah, to whom I am
greatly indebted for the extensive operations of the vaccinator in the district in which
some of his villages are situated : also to the Tehseeldar of Kalsee, who has taken con-
siderable trouble in explaining the scheme to the villagers in the Jounsar Bawar Dis-
trict ; and the numerous operations of the Kalsee vaccinator are due not a little to the
good services of the Tehseeldar in question. I need not particularise by name other
Government officials who have, while on tour in their districts, said a good word for
vaccination; their best reward will be in the knowledge of their having done their best
to extend to the ignorant villagers under their official protection the benefits which
they and their famlies enjoy. As regards my Native Superintendents, I would beg to
recommend for some mark of approval Native Superintendent Toolsee Ram of Dehra
Doon. In April last year, when the conduct of the Native Superintendent of Tehree
led to his dismissal, and my supply of lymph for the operations of the past season
seemed doubtful, Native Superintendent Toolsee Ram at once volunteered to accompany
me into the interior, and do the duties of Native Superintendent during the hot
and rainy seasons, thus giving up his holiday. The mode in which he performed his
duty, and stuck to his post when his vaccinators were down with fever, owing to the
rains being not only unusually heavy but late, was worthy of the son of an old Ghor¬
kah havildar ; and though he had permission to come into Mussoorie in August or Sep-
tember, he did not return till the end of October, and brought with him the supply of
lymph alluded to in para. 2. I have no means of pecuniarily rewarding any of my es-
tablishment, and as Toolsee Ram is a Native Superintendent, and merely drew the
battah of the dismissed Native Superintendent, I therefore trust the Government will
notify, in any way they think best, their approval of his zeal for the public service.
Appendix to the Annual Report of the Vaccine Operations in the Agra and Meerut Divi-
sions for the Season 1870-71: by SURGEON R. R. PRINGLE, M.D., Superintendent
of Vaccine, Agra and Meerut Circle, dated Mussoorie, 29th April, 1871.
WITH reference to the reduction in the Tehree staff of vaccinators, and alluded to
in para. 8 of the annual report, I am glad to say that it has proved to be only temporary,
having been caused by a doubt as to whether the full allowance would be available for
the present season : this, however, having now been received, the number of vaccinators
has been brought up to its original strength, viz., 4. I may here mention that vaccination
seems most thoroughly to have superseded inoculation in Tehree, Gurhwal, and there