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fortunately made light of it. On arriving at the boundary of the Sheorajpore Tehseel.
I was met by the Vaccinator, a Brahmin, who informed me, that the nearest village
to camp in which he had performed vaccination, was 13 miles distant. I accordingly
rode out there, and he showed me some children upon whom he had operated, but
there was not a single successful case among them; all were either doubtful, or un-
successful. There was not the slightest reason to suspect the man of intentional
untruthfulness, but his work had been most carelessly done, and he was greatly to
blame in not having reported to his Native Superintendent that his lymph was bad.
Had he done so, the Native Superintendent would at once have sent him good fresh
lymph, as there was abundance in Cawnpore, and also I believe in every other tehseel
in the Cawnpore District except Sheorajpore.
As the man was a Brahmin, and as his returns were apparently truthful, I did not
like to dismiss him without further enquiry.
I accordingly directed the Native Superintendent to remain some time in Sheo-
rajpore Tehseel and inspect as many of the Vaccinator's old cases as possible, and
send in a report to me of the result of his observations.
From Sheorajpore tehseel I proceeded to tehseel Bilhour, where the Vaccinator
is a Mahomedan, and where I found the vaccination in the highest degree satisfactory.
After inspecting his recent work in the town of Bilhour, and seeing eighteen
perfectly successful cases, I told him to bring me his diary of old work and selected
at random two villages in the neighbourhood. I went in the evening to these villages,
and found the entries in the diary perfectly correct. In one village there were 17
cases, 15 successful and 2 unsuccessful; and in the other village, there were 25 cases,
23 successful and 2 unsuccessful; a state of things, which exactly corresponded with
the entries the Vaccinator had made in his diary. In a former part of my report,
I mentioned that there were numerous Brahmin applicants for vacant appointments,
but as yet none of the Brahmins I have entertained have done nearly so well as the
generality of Mahomedans do. Whenever I have been fortunate enough to engage
a Brahmin who worked with any thing like activity, and whose returns were not
incorrect, I have retained him, even although his work was far inferior to that done
by Mahomedans in his neighbourhood. It is necessary to sacrifice the present for the
sake of the future, and I am fully persuaded, that if vaccination is ever to become
popular among the masses of the Hindoo population, it will only be through the
instrumentality of Brahmin Vaccinators.
In the comparative statement of the merits of Brahmins and Mahomedans, I must
be understood as referring solely to my own Circle, that of Allahabad and Jhansie.
In the Circles of Rohilkhund, and Agra, and Meerut where vaccination has been
longer practised, and is consequently more appreciated by Hindoos generally, there
are, I believe, some good Brahmin Vaccinators. I hope that some of the Brahmins
who are now on my list of applicants, will, when entertained, turn out eventually as
well as the men who are now serving under the Superintendent of the older
established circles.
11. In the month of August, 1871, I received a supply of animal vaccine
lymph, from Bombay, which was most kindly sent me by Mr. Anento Chandaroba,
Superintendent of the Central Vaccine circle, Bombay. With this lymph, I vaccinated
two calves, one male and the other female. The vaccination in the former was a
total failure; from the latter a little lymph was obtained, with which three children
were vaccinated by Dr. Richardson and myself. In two of the children, no result at
all followed; in the third a small vesicle rose, but a scab formed as early as the third
day. In striking contrast with the failure of this experiment was the success which
attended attempts to vaccinate calves, with ordinary human lymph. Neither Dr.
Richardson, nor I, found any difficulty in doing this.