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children, and 1 may add that the quarantine, which is generally supposed to be placed
on a village in which inoculation is being practised, was of the most useless kind, as I
passed several of the Udni villagers on my road to Udni and Rhotul, who were going
to the other side of the river, and must thus have to pass through several villages, of
which Tolara was one. It certainly does seem a hard case, and shows that inoculation
is not so popular as it is supposed to be. The late Rajah of Terree,on every occasion
when I saw him, expressed himself as well pleased with vaccination, but I fear there
were, and it is possible may now be, some officers in his durbar, who think differently,
for I was told it was one of them who sent for the Inoculator whose operations were
put a stop to at Terree itself. My present staff of Vaccinators in Terree Guhrwal, if not
capable of thoroughly protecting the whole of the population requiring vaccination in a
year or two, are quite sufficient with previous inoculation, and present vaccination, to stamp
out small-pox at once, if it should appear, if timely notice is given, but if inoculation
is allowed to spread the disease, as it did this year, it may very seriously affect my
collection of vaccine lymph for my plains operations, which, as before noted, seemed
in danger this last hot season. Independent of this injury to the Department, there
is one to me unsurmountable difficulty, which the supporters of inoculation in place of
vaccination, (when the latter cannot be thoroughly carried out) seem either to lose
sight of, or undervalue; I allude to the extension of small-pox, which inoculation must
entail. Take for example the instance under notice, from one single case of small-
pox, how many have resulted, and it may be asked, where would the epidemic have
ended, had it not been stamped out by vaccination, and if the experience of nearly
eight years in the plains can give me any claim to answer the above, it would
be, not till every person liable to the disease had been either attacked by it,
or seemed proof against it, of which latter cases, however, I fear there would be very few.
If vaccination requires an establishment in proportion to the extent of the unprotected
cases in a given locality, I should consider that, in the case of inoculation, in addition
to a large staff of Inoculators, a preventive establishment, quite as large would be
necessary to carry out the rules of quarantine, in such a manner that spontaneous
small-pox with its awful mortality should not spread to villages, waiting for the visit
of the Inoculator and quarantine necessary to prevent this untoward contingency,
would produce first a stageration, then cessation, and finally in certain seasons of the
year, perhaps, a diversion of trade, with all its attendant bad results. I am aware that
Terree Gurhwal is independent territory, and the law prohibiting inoculation in British
Gurhwal cannot be extended to it, yet, while most grateful to Colonel Ramsay for the
kind help he has always rendered, 1 have little doubt, that, if the new Rajah of Terree,
in consideration of his late father's encouragement of vaccination, could be prevailed upon
to issue orders to the effect, that he would punish or view with displeasure, any attempt
at inoculation in his territory, when he was continuing the support to vaccination
rendered by his late father, it would soon lead to the extension of inoculation, as the
entire population are now sufficiently accustomed to vaccination, and have had proofs
of its benefits, and superiority to inoculation. If to this order were added another, viz.
that the first appearance of small-pox was to be at once reported to my Native Super-
intendent of vaccine, or the nearest Vaccinator (all of whom are residents in Terree
Gurhwal) I need hardly add that measures would be immediately taken to prevent the
disease spreading.
Number of operations performed
by each Vaccinator.
12. The difference met with under this head are most striking, but as they are
clearly shown in Statement No. I., I need not enter
into detail, nor again go over the same ground which
I did in para. 10 of last year's report. I will only allude to one case for comparison,
that of the Municipal Vaccinators at Moozuffernuggur and Saharunpore. Now both are
superior men of their class, very good operators, and most respectable and zealous ;but
yet there is a striking difference in the totals of their work, due, I believe, entirely to
the different spirit in which the present scheme is viewed in Moozuffernuggur and
Saharunpore. I could multiply instances like this, but speaking generally, when such