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so large a district, the European officers could have much spare time to devote to vaccin-
ation. The Agra district remains in very much the same position with regard to vaccin-
ation as last year. The tendency has not been to improve. Compared with the favour-
able progress being made amongst a similar population in the adjoining districts of
Muttra and Mynpoorie, this appears to indicate something defective in the vaccine
establishment, and the only instances of gross misconduct on the part of my subordi-
nates which came to my notice this season occurred in this district. In several out-
of-the-way villages of the Furrah tehseel, I found many of the cases shown in the returns
as successfully vaccinated to have been complete failures. Against the names of some
of these villages in the daily register, I observe that the Native Superintendents had
recorded that he had inspected the children and found them as described by the vaccin¬
ator. The fact turned out to be that the Native Superintendent had never seen them;
but not expecting a visit from me, had entered in the register an account of imaginary
inspections. This man is a native of the city of Agra, and, as I found, had spent too
much of his time at his home. Himself a Mussulman, of no very respectable family,
he never lost an opportunity of making complaints against the two or three Hindoo
vaccinators under him, and endeavouring to replace them by men of his own creed and
selection. Such a policy, amongst a population of which nine-tenths are Hindoos
appeared to me altogether in the wrong direction, and I appointed in his stead a Brahmin,
whom I knew to be an educated man of respectable family, and a good vaccinator.
6. The districts in which the most marked progress has taken place during the
year are Moozuffernuggur, Boolundshuhur, and Etawah. In the first of these, with-
out any increase to the vaccine establishment, the numbers vaccinated have nearly
trebled. For some years vaccination has been popular in the Saharunpore district, and
it is at once observable that this feeling is gradually making its way into the adjoining
parts of Moozuffernuggur. But progress has not been altogether the consequence of
extension from without. Whilst accompanying the municipal vaccinator of Moozuf-
fernuggur through the town about the 1st of December, I found that the only persons
being vaccinated were a few Chumars and sweepers in the suburbs. After an unsuccessful
attempt to prevail upon some of the better classes to have their children brought, I
explained the position of affairs to Mr. Williams, who undertook to see what could be done.
From this time no further difficulty was experienced. Mr. Williams is well known to
the people, and no sooner did he show them, by visiting the town with the vaccinator,
that he took an interest in vaccination, then all classes readily came forward to assist.
Subsequently, when on tour in the district, he similarly interested himself in vaccina-
tion, and with similar results. In the Boolundshuhur district vaccination owes its
success in great part to the interest taken in it by the Magistrate. It was not until he
had impressed the municipalities of the four large towns in his district with a sense of
their duty in regard to this matter that the Municipal vaccinators could obtain even a
footing. On the occasion of my visit, I found that all of them had been driven into the
villages, simply to enable them to keep up their supplies of lymph. Small-pox in an
epidemic form prevailed over this district, and that it did not prove more fatal in the
larger cities, I regard as entirely due to the assistance given to vaccination by the
Magistrate. To the interest taken by all the district authorities in vaccination is due
the advance which the Etawah district has made from being, in this respect, one of
the most backward to being one of the most forward in the circle. I believe a report
has been submitted to Government by the Secretary to the Municipal Committee, regard-
ing the progress and success of vaccination this year in the town of Etawah.
7. Last year it was a source of surprise to Government that the Municipal vaccina-
tors should have done so little. This surprise would not have been lessened had it been
known that of those vaccinated by far the greater number did not belong to the muni-
cipalities. In most cases, after the low caste quarters of a town have been disposed of,
the Municipal vaccinator is obliged either to remain idle, or to begin working in the
neighbouring villages. This season I did not permit any vaccinator to work outside