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three males amongst them, he was rather taken aback; but tried to excuse himself by
manifest and transparent equivocations. The work in the city was, as usual, inferior
in every way to that in the district.
At Ghosee I found small-pox prevalent: the vaccinators were in a distant part of
the tuhseel, and the inoculators took advantage of their absence to set to work; the
result was a bad epidemic of small-pox, and many deaths.
I at once ordered the Nugra vaccinator to send over his apprentice, and 1 recalled
the vaccinator to Ghosee. On passing through some of the villages where small-pox
was prevalent, I was implored to send vaccinators as quickly as possible, and the
people were much pleased on hearing that I had already ordered men up. At Nugra,
Mahadeo Pershad's work was good: out of 129 cases that I examined, 120 were
successful.
At Mahomedabad, Gunesh Dutt, a brahmin, had done excellent work. Ram Lall,
also a brahmm, showed me the best work I had seen in the division, at Nizamabad. It
was no surprise to me to find on enquiry that he was an old vaccinator from Rohil-
khund; he formerly lived at Kasheepore, but he has married and settled down at Azim-
gurh. He is by far the best man in the district, and deserves reward. The Nugra and
Mahomedabad men alone, amongst the others, deserve favourable mention.
Goruckpore.—The work in this district was very bad last year, and this year it is
worse: there is a falling-off of 324 as compared with last year, and yet I cannot see that
the people are more averse to vaccination than those of other parts. Devee Dutt, a hill
brahmin, does excellent work at Hatta, and the Buralgunge and Balipur men had a
tolerable show: nowhere else in the district has there been anything like zeal or
efficiency.
The city men are particularly bad: one swelled his petty list by a lucky haul of
Goorkhas passing through to join one of our regiments; another vaccinated a num-
ber of recently arrived camp-followers; a third devoted himself to the jail, and vaccinated
all the prisoners.
That recruits, camp-followers, and others should be vaccinated is all very well,
but it was not for this work alone, or chiefly, that these men were entertained.
As regards vaccinating prisoners, I am strongly of opinion that this duty should
be undertaken by the jail staff; quite sufficient suspicion already attaches itself to our
movements to make it imprudent for us to risk incurring more by identifying ourselves
with any jail operations. Every year our native opponents raise some such ridiculous
story as that " we must kill a lakh of children before we can build a certain bridge;"
or that " we are looking for a child with white blood, who, unless killed, will overthrow
our rule :" hence the interest taken by Government in vaccination, as " we hope there-
by to kill the children or find the child with white blood."
Bustee—There is an increase here of 144, as compared with last year. The work,
however, is still very bad; and here again there is no particular prejudice against vac-
cination. The Bansee Rajah, probably the most influential man in the district, has
had his own son vaccinated, and at Bansee I saw some good work.
In Dumooriagunge tuhseel two brahmins have worked well: one of them was
formerly in the department, and dismissed for laziness ; he is now working under the
vaccinator, in the hope of recovering his lost appointment, and I should be disposed to
give him another trial. Several wealthy zemindars in this tuhseel came forward of their
own accord and showed me their children who had been vaccinated, and' told me they
much preferred vaccination to inoculation, as the former process cost them nothing
and did not make their children sick. The Bustee vaccinator and his apprentice did
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