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have described, but that any cases survive such poisoned water and air. During the
past season, I had to make an example of a Native Superintendent and Vaccinator,
whom I detected in making false returns, and owing to the system of returns in use in
this office, both these men stood convicted on their own handwriting, and I prosecuted
them in the Magistrate's Court at Muttra. This officer committed them to the Sessions,
but, as the case had been pending some time, and it was possible that those men were
ignorant of the light in which the law viewed their conduct, this being the first instance of
the kind I had taken up, I allowed the case to drop, after having shown the Department
the punishment which these men narrowly escaped, and which awaited any one detected
in similar practices. Frequently during the past season I have experienced great diffi-
culty in obtaining the vaccine village returns of previous years, the answer generally
given being, that the returns had been put for safety into a hole in the wall of the
houses, and during the past rainy season the wall had fallen, and buried the returns.
As these vaccine village returns are invaluable to the Department in proving the bene-
fits of successful, as compared with unsuccessful Vaccination, I would take the liberty
of suggesting that the Magistrates of the districts be requested to issue orders to the
effect, that the vaccine village returns, being Government records, the Government
expect that the parties who receive them, be they chowkeedars, lumberdars, or put-
warees, will take as much care of them as they are required to do of other Govern-
ment records. I would also suggest, that orders be issued to the chowkeedars
through the Superintendents of Police, directing them, when taking the mortuary
returns to the nearest Police-station, to receive any returns, letters, &c., which may
be made over to them by the Vaccinator working in the neighbourhood, and that
the subordinate Police officials be directed to post letters without delay, as unless
a Native Superintendent is kept well informed of the movements and work of his
Vaccinators, it is impossible for him to exercise that supervision which is necessary
to keep his men up to their work, and to enable him to go at once to the assist-
ance of any who may require his help in persuading the villagers to accept the
prophylactic. The Vaccinators will be directed to ascertain the day on which the vil-
lage chowkeedar goes to the Police-station to make his reports, so as to send their returns,
&c. by him. I am glad to see that the suggestion contained in my last Annual Report
is to be carried out, and though the maps can, as a commencement, be supplied only
to the Native Superintendents, yet I am in hopes that I shall be able to get the
tehseels extracted from the zillah maps, at a very cheap rate, by asking some of the
subordinates in the survey at Dehra to employ their leisure in drawing them out
roughly and though these from their price can hardly be very accurate, yet the names
of the villages being given, and an approximation to their locality obtained, the Vac-
cinator will be able to make his visits in a more systematic manner, and will thus save
both time and labour in searching for villages. By studying the map, I often surprised
my Vaccinators by asking them why such and such villages were omitted, and though
it is true that, with a little trouble, they could get the names of the villages from the
putwarees, yet these maps will remove any excuse for having a single village unvisited
in a given tract of country. As remarked in last year's report, these maps will enable
Native Superintendents, by the aid of his weekly returns, to come unexpectedly upon
my Vaccinator, by nearly calculating what village he should visit on a given date to
obtain fresh lymph. One visit and inspection conducted in this manner is worth
twenty visits made when accompanied by the vaccinator.
In conclusion, I trust the Government will mark with their approbation, the
valuable assistance rendered by Rajah Teekum Singh, and Rao Sahib Singh, of Lan¬
dowrah, and also be pleased to express to the village School-master of Landowrah
Pundit Ramchunder Dass, their approval of his thoughtfulness for the welfare of the
children in his school, and disinterested help in the cause of vaccination, for it must be
borne in mind, that the Pundit could not have had the least idea, when he was assisting
vaccination, that I would visit Landowrah, and personally thank him for what he had
done.
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