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tehseeldars. Before receiving this letter, I saw a copy of the roobakar, and at once
wrote a public letter to the Magistrate, begging him to allow one man at least to
remain in each of the tehseels. I did this, because I knew that there was not enough
work in the city of Cawnpore for so large a number of vaccinators. Besides this, the
vaccinators called in could not take with them any additional stock of lymph. Vaccin-
ation is a thing practically done from arm to arm, and all the children these men had
vaccinated were of course left behind in the tehseels; so that much valuable lymph was
allowed to go to waste. Another inconvenience, though one of much less moment,
was, that the men could not inspect their work of the previous week; so that all their
cases had to be entered in the column of "unknown," as the men could not tell whe-
ther they had been successful or not. When the vaccinators arrived in Cawnpore, the
Civil Surgeon very kindly superintended the division of the city into circles, one of
which was allotted to each vaccinator ; but, as far as I could learn, very little additional
work was done ; as most of the Native population who were willing to be vaccinated
had already had the operation performed by the resident vaccinators.
Most of the leading Natives in Cawnpore belong to the Bunniah caste, and object
to vaccination. I believe, for instance, that none of the municipal commissioners have
ever allowed any of their children to be vaccinated.
6. The services of the resident vaccinators were applied for by the medical
officers in charge of the European regiment and of the Artillery stationed in Cawnpore.
On the 18th February, 300 men of the regiment were vaccinated by the Native Super-
intendent and by the cantonment vaccinator of Cawnpore.
Almost all the cases were successful. On subsequent days the men of the Artil-
lery and the remaining men of the regiment were vaccinated ; but owing to the stock
of lymph being exhausted, the vaccination was not satisfactory, and had to be done
over again. It is by no means easy for the vaccination of a town to supply in a single
day so large a quantity of fresh lymph as is required to vaccinate half a regiment; and
it would be much more convenient if the medical officers in charge of regiments would
allow 50 or 100 men to be done daily, until the whole regiment was protected. But
during an epidemic they naturally enough object to delay, and wish the whole of their
men to be done at once.
7. During the past cold season, the first district regularly inspected by me was
Futtehpore. At the time of my visit the vesicle could hardly be said to be properly
established, and it was of course impossible for the vaccinators to shew me so many
cases as they could have done if I had visited them later in the season. The work of
the tehseel vaccinators of Kullianpore and Futtehpore was, however, excellent in quality.
On the other hand, the tehseel vaccinator of Kukreroo, was able to shew very few suc-
cessful cases, though I remained nearly two days in his tehseel; and the work of the
municipal vaccinator of Futtehpore was the worst I saw during the whole of my tour.
The latter man has been dismissed, and a good man appointed in his place. The tehseel
of Ghazeepore remained unvisited by me, as the old vaccinator had resigned his ap-
pointment on the 1st of November, and his successor had not been able to establish the
vesicle. This was the only tehseel in the Allahabad Division left unvisited by me, but
it would have taken three or four days to have gone there ; and as the vaccinator had
no children ready to shew me, I thought it unadvisable to lose so many days, more
especially as the newly appointed vaccinator was an old and well-trained man, not in
need of advice or instruction. Judging from the reports of the Native Superintendent,
the work of the Ghazeepore vaccinator has since been good.
8. The next district inspected was that of Allahabad. In this district, vaccina-
tion is in a more unsatisfactory state than it is in any other district in my circle. I saw
really good work in only two tehseels, those of Munjhunpore and Phoolpore. The
work in Surathoo was moderately good. In all the others, I found that the vaccinators
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