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The vaccination in this district has of late years suffered considerably, owing to
the time of the Native Superintendent being taken up inspecting the work of
Vaccinators in the adjoining Native States.
This year a new arrangement has been made, and the former Native Superin-
tendent of Humeerpore has been posted to the new appointment of Native Superin-
tendent of Vaccination, Independent Bundelkhund, and in his place a new man has
been sent to act as Native Superintendent of the Humeerpore Zillah. This man, a
Vaccinator, named Hydur Bux, was specially recommended to me by my predecessor
Dr. Richardson, as being in his opinion the man in the Circle most fit for promotion.
8. In the Banda District I was able to inspect the work of seven out of the
nine Vaccinators, and found that, with one exception, the vaccination was well and
carefully performed.
In former years the Banda District was a very backward one, but this year much
progress has been made. The Native Superintendent is a hardworking, painstaking
man, and several of the Vaccinators showed me very good work, particularly the
Municipal Vaccinator and the Government Vaccinators of Banda, Kamasin, and
Geerwa. This progress, however, is most marked in the western part of the district,
for judging from the Native Superintendent's report, the work in the two tehseels of
Mhow and Kirwee, at the eastern end of the district, is not so satisfactory. Unfor-
tunately, these were the only two tehseels I was unable to visit, but I hope to be able
to inspect them early in the course of next season, and judge myself whether the want
of progress is owing to the inefficiency of the Vaccinators.
In the Budowsa tehseel of the Banda district the Native Superintendent also
reported unfavourably of the Vaccinator, and, on going to see one of the villages in
which he had vaccinated and had reported two cases as being both successful, I found
that only one of them was successful, and that the other had totally failed. On enquiry
I found that the Vaccinator had never gone to see whether his cases were successful
or not, but had reported both as successful. I also found that this Vaccinator, a
Mahomedan, had been fined by Dr. Richardson, the year before.
I therefore
dismissed him, and entertained in his place a Brahmin, who had officiated for some
time as a substitute owing to the illness of one of the Vaccinators.
9. In the Futtehpore District I inspected the work of two Vaccinators, and in
both cases found it exceedingly good. In this Zillah there are no Municipalities, so
that hitherto there have been no Municipal Vaccinator, but the Magistrate, Mr. Turner,
promised to try to make arrangements next year for the payment from local funds of
a Vaccinator who will work in the important town of Futtehpore. Mr. Turner also
sanctioned the entertainment of a local Vaccinator for Futtehpore from the 1st to 22nd
March, 1872, and this man's work is accordingly shown in the returns.
10. In the Cawnpore District I first inspected the work of the Government
vaccinator of Sarh Sulempore at the towns of Maharajpore and Nurwul, and at
various villages in the neighbourhood. This man is one of the oldest and best vacci-
nators in the circle, and his work was as usual first-rate. I next spent some days ins-
pecting the Municipal Vaccinator of Cawnpore, and the Government Vaccinator of the
same place, and in both instances was much pleased. At Cawnpore, I saw a case of
small-pox occuring immediately after vaccination. This was of course, owing to the
child having caught the disease before vaccination was performed. Small-pox re-
mains on an average 12 days dormant in the system, and it is only on rare occasi-
ons that either the febrile symptoms or the characteristic rash appears until the 12th
day after the child has been exposed to infection, This is well-known in England, but
in India parents often express great surprise, when they see small-pox appear
ing on the child one, two, or three days after the operations of vaccination
has been performed. In this case the disease was very mild, and the parents