( 20 )
Here an increase of 1923.
Ghazeepore.—The inspection of this district occupied me very nearly a month ; it
was, however, time well spent. Although the work of the last
man I inspected in Benares was very fair, yet immediately
on crossing over the Goomtee into the Ghazeepore District a marked improvement
was manifest.
On my march between Syudpore and Nundgunge I inspected the work of three
men, and found it very good. One Buldeo has showed me upwards of 100 successfully
vaccinated cases in the villages which I selected for inspection, and I was assured
that nearly all the other villages in the vicinity were almost equally well protected.
On enquiring to whose influence such success was due, I was informed that
Baboo Karotty Khan, hospital assistant at Bullia, owned a small zemindaree near
the village of Peeri, and exerted himself in every way to promote vaccination. On
hearing that he was at home on sick leave, I went to see him and thank him for his
exertions on our behalf.
I found him very ill indeed : he was much pleased at my visit, and showed me
several of his children, all of whom had been successfully vaccinated.
Jay Narain, too, whose work I inspected on this march, had done well. I was,
however, to my great regret, obliged subsequently to dismiss him for practising inocula-
tion in some of the villages in his beat.
The work in Ghazeepore city is very backward; I am inclined, however, to think
that the vaccinators have done their utmost.
The work of Mahomed Hossein, at Zumaniah, is extremely good; he has, however,
better materials to work with than others, as there are numerous Patân villages in
his beat, and they have no prejudice whatever against vaccination.
Mahomed Hossein has been highly praised by both Drs. Richardson and Mac-
gregor, and I quite agree with them in thinking that he deserves reward or pro-
anotion.
There are many inoculators still at work in the district; their number is estimated
at 120. They commence their operations when we leave, and I am not at all sure that
many of our vaccinators do not turn their attention to inoculation as soon as the vac-
cination season is over. One of them, Jay Narain, mentioned above, had the impertinence
to inoculate or vaccinate as the people in his beat preferred one or other operation.
He carried his assurance a little too far, however, by inoculating eight in one house,
two of whom died, and then the matter came to the ears of the native superintendent,
who promptly reported him to me. I quite endorse Dr. Macgregor's opinion of Nur-
sing Pershad ; he is still far and away the best man in the division. I examined his
work carefully, and had every reason to be satisfied. I regret that he has latterly
suffered much from fever.
Azimgurh.—In this district there is an increase of 2,998. The native superinten-
dent, Bismillah Shah Beg, comes next in efficiency to Nursing Pershad, sed longo
intervallo. I was obliged severely to censure him for omitting to report to me the ineffi-
ciency of the vaccinator at Mobarruckpore. During my inspection I noticed that this
man had recently suffered from a severe attack of confluent small-pox. On enquiring
"how long he had been confined to the house and unable to work " he told me " four
days.'' From his appearance it was quite evident that his statement was untrue. A refer-
ence to his diary showed that he had been sixteen days absent from work, and yet
no report had been made to me. His diaries were full of false entries. I visited one
house where he stated he had vaccinated five persons ; on asking to see them, I was
informed that " they were all zenana logue." On my remarking that there were