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10. The zillah of Banda was next inspected, and I found it a great contrast to
the districts I had previously visited, as in every tehseel but one vaccination was
excellent. The solitary exception was the tehseel of Mow, which includes the large com-
mercial town of Rajpore, the birth-place of the great Hindoo poet, Toolsee Dass. It
is inhabited almost entirely by Bunnias, so that vaccination in Rajpore is not to be
looked for for many years to come. The vaccinator had not attempted to vaccinate
any one in Rajpore, and seemed to consider it a hopeless undertaking. With the
other seven tehseels of the Banda district, I had every reason to be pleased. I marched,
as usual, about 12 miles every morning, and gave the afternoon to the vaccinator in
whose tehseel I happened to be. In almost every case the vaccinator was able to
shew me 50 or 100 cases of successful vaccination, within a radius of 8 or 10 miles
from my camp. In some cases this number was exceeded. Thus, the vaccinator of
Kamasin, one of the best men in my circle, shewed me 115 successful cases in one
day ; and he was labouring under peculiar disadvantage, as I passed through his tehseel
by a different road from the one he expected me to take. I never went near the town
of Kamasin, where most of his work had been done.
Another man in this zillah, the vaccinator of pergunnah Banda, showed me 175
cases, but I passed through the whole length of his pergunnah, and was able to give him
three afternoons; so that on the whole his work was inferior to that of the vaccinator
of Kamasin.
11. The Humeerpore district is also a very good one. I was highly pleased with
the work of the six local vaccinators, and with that of five out of the six Government
vaccinators. On the whole, the best work I saw in this zillah was that of the Govern-
ment vaccinator of Jalalpore, who showed me in the villages of Behunie, Kurehie,
Bilganu, and Buswara no less than 117 successful cases; and of the Government vac-
cinator of pergunnah Humeerpore, who showed me 19 cases in Humeerpore itself, and
52 cases in the village of Somairpore, about 12 miles from Humeerpore.
In both cases I found that almost all the operations had been successful, and the
places inspected were selected by myself and not chosen by the vaccinators. The Go-
vernment vaccinator of Punwaree shewed me a larger number, 173 successful cases;
but he had a great number of unsuccessful cases, and his work was almost all in Pun¬
waree itself, which he knew I was certain to visit.
12. In the zillah of Jaloun I was only able to inspect the work of four vaccinators;
the tehseel vaccinators of Oraie and Attah, and the municipal vaccinators of Oraie
and Calpee; of the four, the best work was that of the Government vaccinator of Oraie,
who showed me 84 cases in a number of small villages near Ait, on the borders of the
Jhansie district. The Civil Surgeon of Oraie has given me much assistance; and vac-
cination is, on the whole, going on satisfactorily in the Jaloun district.
13. The Cawnpore district is by far the most important in my circle, as there
are no less than 20 vaccinators employed in it, or as many as there are in the whole
Jhansie commissionership. The Native Superintendent is decidedly the best officer
I have under me, and the vaccinators are, on the whole, better than in any other dis-
trict. I remained more than a month in the zillah, and inspected the work of every vac-
cinator in it. After leaving Jaloun, the first place I visited was Bhogneepore tehseel;
I selected four villages in the neighbourhood, and saw in them 77 cases, of which
only one was a failure ; a ratio of success which could hardly be exceeded ; next day
I marched 12 miles to Moosanugger, the headquarters of the other vaccinator of the
tehseel, and saw in the neighbouring villages 124 cases, but of these 13 were failures,
only 111 being successful—an unsatisfactory ratio of success. Next day 1 marched to
Gujnare, in the Akburpore tehseel, and saw 48 successful cases. These I verified
by the vaccinator's registers ; as the man himself was one of those who had been called
to Cawnpore by the Magistrate, and had not returned. He had, however, fortunately,
left all his papers with a friend in the village. At Akburpore, 11 miles from Guj-
nare, I halted a day, and saw 145 cases, of which only three were unsuccessful.