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under the present financial difficulties of the country, seems impossible; and it is unne-
cessary, therefore, to discuss the subject more in detail, or to propound a scheme
by which a trained staff of vaccinators might be ready to fill up vacancies. The
only other subject in Statement No. I. which calls for any special remark is the
fact of the number of operations performed by each vaccinator varying as much as
they do ; but having devoted a para. to this important subject, I need not enter into
it here.
Municipal Vaccination.
Municipalities.
Agra, ... ...
Allygurh, ... ...
Hattrass,
...
...
Atrowlee,
...
...
Hurdoegunj, ... ...
Secundra Rao,
...
...
Muttra, ... ...
Bindrabun, ... ...
Kosee, ... ...
Mynpoory, ... ...
Saharunpore, ... ...
Moozuffernuggur,... ...
Tehree,
...
...
Furruckabad,
...
...
Julleysur,
... ...
Etawah, ... ...
Khasgunj, ... ...
Boolundshuhur, ...
...
Anoopshuhur,
... ...
Khoorjah,
...
...
Meerut Extra,
...
...
No.
3
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
3
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
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2
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8. The number of the municipal vaccinators during the past season has been as
per margin, showing a decrease of one in the Tehree
territory as compared with last year, to which I will
allude hereafter, and the continuance of the two
semi-attached vaccinators at Meerut, i.e., two selec-
ted men taken from the omedwar list of this estab-
lishment, and employed only during the vaccinating
season by the Municipality. Their work has been
ncorporated with the others, as it has been under
the superintendence of the Native Superintendent of
the district. Agreeable to the orders of the Govern-
ment, all the municipal vaccinators were, at the close
of last season's work, placed under the orders of the
Magistrates of the district, or the several municipa-
lities, who in turn transferred them to the Civil Sur-
geons. With the exception of one district in which
there are seven of the municipal vaccinators, all the
others worked as compounders at the dispensaries in
their various municipalities, thus one object of the Government in their late order has,
as far as possible, been carried out, and these vaccinators have had an opportunity of
seeing and becoming acquainted with the class of people who apply at the dispensaries
for medical assistance. In the instance of the exception above alluded to, the reverse of
this has been the case; and as a rule every municipal vaccinator has been sent to a dif-
ferent dispensary from that located in the municipality to which he belonged. The
result of this, and the withdrawal of the privilege of residing at their homes on a reduced
pay during the non-vaccinating season, has led to these appointments being viewed
as a punishment, and thus the only promotion in my gift to a deserving vaccinator,
with the exception of that to the post of a Native Superintendent, has been removed,
and some of the best vaccinators who have been promoted to a municipality for good
work are now petitioning to be reduced to the establishment, or threatening to resign.
During the past season, I have as far as possible appointed compounders who have
learnt vaccination to these posts, and invited this class of applicants to qualify them-
selves for the municipal vaccinators ; but the numbers as yet have been very limited.
I regret to have to report that, during the season under notice, considerable difficulty
has been experienced in regularly disbursing the pay of some of these municipal
vaccinators ; and when it is taken into consideration that the credit of these men in
the villages rests in a great measure on the regularity with which they receive their
pay (they for the most part being total strangers), their efficiency as vaccinators is not
likely to be promoted, and the temptation to practise extortion for self-support is im-
mensely increased. In the instance of one municipality, their vaccinator's pay has
not been remitted to this office since the 1st November, 1870, the date to which the
last vaccination grant extended; and when I wrote to the President informing him of
this, his was reply was that nothing could be disbursed till the budget was passed in
April, 1871. In replying I remarked that a large municipality like that of which
he was the president had surely larger funds to draw upon than an office like mine,
and requesting a remittance; his answer was that it could not be granted. Had an
intimation to this effect been sent to me when I wrote asking the municipality if
they intended to keep on their vaccinator for another year, I should have provided for
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