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With regard to municipal vaccination, I have to return my thanks to all the Civil
Surgeons in the circle, and, above all, to the Civil Surgeon of Cawnpore, for the assist-
ance I have received during the whole of the past season.
4. During the past year, I have inspected all the vaccinators but one in the
Allahabad Division. Next year I will inspect the Jhansie Division in the beginning
of the season; and, as this will certainly not occupy more than two months, I will be
able to give the rest of the season to Allahabad. In 1865, when I was first appointed
to this circle, there were only 40 vaccinators, and it was quite possible to see them all
in the course of a season. Now there are 93, and I find it is no longer possible. In
order to go round the circle, going from one tehseelee town to another, and inspect-
ing only the head-quarters town or village of each vaccinator, the European Super-
intendent has to make 174 marches, taking the regular marches at 12 or 13 miles
each. But it is rarely the case that the European Superintendent finds the vaccin-
ator working close to his head-quarters; so that in practise the number of marches is
very much greater.
Considering the very large number of vaccinators in this circle, the inspection
would be much more thoroughly done if a Native Deputy Superintendent were sanc-
tioned, as is done in other provinces.
It would then be possible for the European Superintendent to inspect the Allaha-
bad Division thoroughly one year, the Native Deputy taking Jhansie. Next year the
European Superintendent would inspect Jhansie, the Deputy going to Allahabad.
The children were always inspected at the doors of their own houses. The vac-
cinator guided me to the house, where he had vaccinated a child, and the parents were
asked to bring their child to the door. After inspecting the child's arm, and making
a mark opposite its name, in the register, I passed on to the next house. It would save
a European Superintendent much trouble if he could have the children collected in one
place; but by adopting such a course he would make vaccination more unpopular.
A voluntary system of vaccination like the present can only succeed by doing every-
thing that can possibly be done to avoid giving trouble to the children vaccinated,
or to their parents.
In England, where vaccination is compulsory, the parents have often to take their
children some miles to a vaccine station, but if such a thing were to be attempted in
India, parents would refuse to have their children vaccinated. On one occcasion, some
years ago, a Civil Surgeon, who has since retired from the service, actually ordered
the vaccinator of the place to bring all the children he had vaccinated in the city to
be inspected at his, the Civil Surgeon's, bungalow, in cantonments. As soon as this
order became known to the people, vaccination came to a standstill.
A vaccinator in India has quite enough to do to persuade parents to accept for
their children the English remedy of vaccination. Its utility, as a protective agent
against a future attack of small-pox, is, in their eyes, doubtful; and its present incon-
veniences are certain. But if, in addition to the suffering of the child, the inflamed
arm, and feverishness, there were to be added the trouble to themselves of carrying
the child some miles for inspection, all doubt would be at an end, and vaccination would
be unhesitatingly rejected.
5. In the month of February an epidemic of small-pox broke out in the city of
Cawnpore. The Native Superintendent immediately ordered the two tehseel vaccinators
to come into the city and assist the municipal and cantonment vaccinators, thus
making, with the apprentice, five available men. Soon afterwards, the Magistrate sent
a roobakar to the five tehseeldars of Akburpore, Nurwul, Ghatumpore, Sheorajpore, and
Jajmow, ordering them to send the vaccinators of their pergunnahs into the city of
Cawnpore. The Magistrate also sent me an English letter signed by the Assistant
Magistrate, and dated 14th February, informing me of the order he had given to the