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of the season in the town of Allahabad, when he ought to have been visiting the
district vaccinators. Some of the latter he had not visited once. As a consequence,
they did little or no work, and some made up for this by drawing up imaginary lists
of children vaccinated by them. On the conclusion of my inquiry, I obtained the dis-
missal o the Native Superintendent and of the vaccinators of Barah and Soraon,
both of whom had falsified their returns. In one tehseel of this district only did I
find the work good : in the tehseel of Mega. This was owing to the interest taken in
vaccination by the Tehseeldar, Mir Muddud Ali, who has on former occasions received
the thanks of Government on this account. The numbers successfully vaccinated in Alla-
habad this season were 4,797: last year they were 10,579. This will show the mischief
which may be caused by the misconduct of one man. Another Native Superintendent
of much experience and promise has been appointed, and I feel sure that next season
Allahabad will regain its lost position.
24. I saw little of the state of vaccination in Jounpore, but what I did see was
satisfactory. The Native Superintendent is a man of experience and energy, and is
much assisted by the district officials. As in previous years, the Tehseeldar of Karakul
has given every assistance to the vaccinator employed in his tehseel. Jounpore is the
only district under my charge in which inoculation prevails. I visited a village in
which the chief zemindar and several others had refused to have their children vacci-
nated, but had them subsequently inoculated. So far as I could learn, no harm re-
sulted to the children, nor had small-pox ensued. In this district there has been a
slight falling-off. This year the numbers vaccinated were 3,938, and last year 4,450.
25. The municipal vaccinators, excepting those of Allahabad, have worked well.
The numbers have fallen from 5,590 last season to 2,956 this ; a result chiefly due to
the unfortunate state of matters in Allahabad. In this city the numbers fell from
2,819 last year to 779 this year.
26. Throughout the Native States of Bundelkhund, vaccination is making decided
progress I was able to examine the work of five of the vaccinators employed in
Dutteah, Teekumgurh, and Sumpter. In the first and last of these States, it struck me
the authorities gave the vaccinators but very half-hearted aid. In Teekumgurh the case
was different: there, the Rajah evidently understands the benefits likely to result to
his people from the introduction amongst them of vaccination, and gives it his hearty
support.
27. In certain districts somewhat unnecessary care, as it appears to me, is taken
to assure the people that vaccination is entirely voluntary. In so far as nothing
like compulsion is intended, no doubt it is voluntary ; but from what I have seen, the
people are already sufficiently aware of the fact, and repeated assurances on this point,
besides being unnecessary, tend greatly to render the people averse to its acceptance,
and even insolent to, the vaccinators. To the solicitations of the latter they reply
that the Magistrate has told them they may accept or decline vaccination just as they
like, and that it is not their wish to have their children vaccinated. Were vaccination
voluntary in the sense that, being simply placed within their reach, the people were
left entirely to themselves to accept or to reject it, the thousands now being vaccinated
would speedly sink to hundreds or even to tens. It is only by bringing it to their
doors, and using every legitimate means to induce them to avail themselves of its
benefits, that any progress can be made. When the influence of the district authorities
is brought to bear in the same direction, the efforts of the vaccinators are greatly aided;
in fact, to such an extent is this the case, that I attribute the difference in which vac-
cination has made way in neighbouring districts as much to the degree in which the
authorities have interested themselves in its promotion as to any difference in the caste
or other prejudices of the people, or to greater or less industry and skill on the part
of the vaccine establishment.
28. The very small extent to which the bulk of the population of the two divi-
sions under my charge has yet been reached by vaccination, will appear from the