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It is most necessary, therefore, to select men, as far as is possible, whose disposi-
tions and manners are good, and who are intelligent in their ideas and conversation.
The Native Superintendents especially should be men of education and good manners,
as their duty consists not only in supervising work but in disarming prejudice and con-
ciliating the chief men of the villages and towns, whose influence and example it is most
necessary to secure, by explaining to them the benefits of vaccination and the object
which Government has in encouraging its spread.
10. A serious objection to the present system is that all the Native Superintendents
and Vaccinators are placed in the same classes as regards allowances. This would be
remedied if the Government would grant an allowance of Rs. 150 or Rs. 200 per annum
to form a fund from which the most enterprising and zealous could be rewarded. But
as it is, the careless and untruthful servant receives the same pay as the truthful and
active.
11. Again, the expense to which Native Superintendents are put in travelling
over their districts is considerable, and it is hardly possible that they should do this in
an efficient manner without incurring expenses which the pay they receive is not
sufficient to meet. I would recommend, therefore, that during the working season each
Superintendent should receive Rs. 5 per mensem as travelling allowance.
12. I have now the pleasing duty of bringing to the notice of Government the
remarkable success which has attended the establishment of vaccination in the Native
States of Bundelkhund through the exertions of Dr. Watson, now Officiating Superinten-
dent-General, and Dr. Stratton, Political Agent in Bundelkhund. All the States which
are under the care of the last-mentioned gentleman have entertained Vaccinators. I
had the opportunity of visiting the States of Chirkaree, Oorcha, Duttia and Allipoora,
and in each of these I was glad to find that vaccination had obtained a footing.
Of course the work is still in its infancy, and many prejudices must be combated
and obstacles removed. In the State of Chirkaree, the Rajah, who is still a minor,
and his minister, a man of great intelligence, have taken a very active part in the
work.
The Dewan had to set the good example in having his own children and those
of his relatives vaccinated, and he likewise distributed small sums of money to induce
people to come forward, and the result has been a very considerable success. After
the interview I had with the young Rajah, he asked all his Sirdars to have their
children vaccinated.
I have every reason to believe that the work so favourably commenced will be
prosecuted with equal energy, and that the other Native States will be led to follow the
example set by Chirkaree, and use their influence to spread the benefits of vaccination
amongst their subjects.
13. Before concluding I have to allude to two cases in which small-pox of a
discrete type immediately followed on vaccination.
These cases occurred in the Cawnpore Zillah. Such a phenomenon following
vaccination is to be attributed to the fact that the virus of small-pox was latent in the
system in each of the children, and that the irritation of vaccination developed it, and
at the same time exercised a remarkable influence in rendering the disease of a milder
form than it independently would have been.
14. In conclusion, I desire to ask that the Government would authorize the
furnishing of the Putwaree papers, so far as they refer to the number of births in the
towns and villages, to my office.
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