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A.—VACCINE DEPARTMENT (3RD CIRCLE).—(Concluded.)
Statement No. I.—Showing particulars of Vaccination in each Circle of Superintendence in the North-Western Provinces during the year 1870-71.
1.
Circle.
(Concluded.)
2.
Name and Rank of Superinten-
dent.
Milne, M.B., (Officiating.)
3.
Number of Na-
tive Superin-
tendents.
1870-71.
1
1
1
1
1869-70.
1
1
1
1
4.
Number of
Vaccinators.
1870-71.
1
1
1
1
2
1
7
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
7
1869-70.
1
1
1
1
2
1
7
...
1
1
1
1
1
1
6
5.
Total number
of persons
vaccinated.
1870-71.
6,940
...
8,786
...
1869-70.
4,824
...
6,117
...
6.
Collectorate, Political Agency,
or Native State in which vac-
cinations were performed
during the year.
Zh. Azimgurh,
Azimgurh,
Zh. Goruckore
Goruckpore,
7.
Population of area included in
last column.
1,385,872
1,385,872
1,983,816
1,983,816
8.
Name of portion
of District or of
Town Tehseels.
Azimgurh, ...
Jeinpore, ...
Mohumdabad, ...
Nugrah, ...
Aheroula, ...
Deogaon,
...
Total, ...
GoruckporeCity,
„
Tehseel,
Bansgaon, ...
Pudrowna, ...
Deoriah, ...
Hatta, ...
Munsoorgunge,
Total, ...
9.
PRI MARY VACCINATIONS.
A.
Sex.
Male.
700
908
710
350
503
640
3,811
213
409
1,470
905
1,325
975
690
5,987
Female.
768
500
508
288
456
505
3,025
94
240
708
570
505
400
275
2,792
B.
Caste.
Christian.
14
...
...
...
...
...
14
56
5
...
...
...
...
...
61
Hindoo.
954
908
606
457
361
805
4,091
174
470
l,600
1,060
1,290
1,000
690
6,284
Mussulman.
500
500
612
181
598
340
2,731
77
174
578
415
540
375
275
2,437
C.
Age
Under 1 year.
61
98
130
68
149
45
551
58
30
51
126
90
65
55
475
Above 1 year.
1,407
1,310
1,088
570
810
1,100
6,285
249
619
2,127
1,349
1,740
1,310
910
8,004
Result.
Successful.
1,303
1,317
991
504
688
924
5,727
239
511
1,926
l,200
1,550
1,085
800
7,311
Unsuccessful, in-
cluding those
doubtful.
90
55
144
80
156
100
625
52
88
122
175
180
190
115
922
Unknown.
75
36
83
54
115
121
484
16
50
130
100
100
100
50
546
D.
Total.
1,468
1,408
1,21
638
959
1,145
6,836
307
649
2,178
1,475
1,830
1,375
965
8,779
10.
RE-VACCINATION.
A.
Successful.
90
...
...
...
...
...
90
...
6
...
...
...
...
...
6
B.
Unsuccessful, includ-
ing those doubtful.
10
...
...
...
...
...
10
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
1
C.
Unknown.
10
...
...
...
...
...
10
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
D.
Total.
110
...
...
...
...
...
110
...
7
...
...
...
...
...
7
11.
Percentage of
successful
cases, exclud-
ing those un-
known
from
the total.
In primary vac-
cination.
...
...
...
...
...
...
90.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
86.
In
secondary
vaccination.
...
...
...
...
...
...
90.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
85.
12.
Average number of persons
vaccined by each vaccinator
per mensem.
...
...
...
...
...
...
198
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
251
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BENARES.—
Assistant Surgeon E. M.
1
1
6
1
1
6
1
1
1
1
1
5
35
1
1
1
1
1
5
34
5,215
...
43,672
4,269
...
34,153
Zh. Bustee, ...
Bustee, ...
Benares Divn.,
1,454,697
1,454,697
8,005,428
Bustee Tehseel,
Khalelabad, ...
Domurriagunge,
Bansee, ...
Captaingunge,...
Total, ...
Grand Total,...
786
839
821
521
155
3,122
25,715
471
588
498
440
57
2,054
16,822
...
...
...
2
...
2
173
880
4,041
831
660
142
3,554
29,914
377
386
488
299
70
1,620
12,450
140
60
213
230
11
654
4,483
1,117
1,367
1,106
731
201
4,522
38,054
1,138
1,214
1,203
864
146
4,565
35,672
86
152
58
60
28
384
4,462
33
16
58
27
48
227
2,403
1,257
1,427
1,319
951
222
5,176
42,537
25
...
...
...
...
25
816
9
...
...
...
...
9
269
5
...
...
...
...
5
50
39
...
...
...
...
39
1,135
...
...
...
...
...
92.
88.96
...
...
...
...
...
73.
75.20
...
...
...
...
...
208
249
R. M. MILNE, M.B.,
Offg. Supdt. of Vaccination, 3rd Circle.
14
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A.—VACCINE DEPARTMENT (4TH CIRCLE).—(Concluded.)
Statement No. I.—Showing particulars of Vaccination in the Allahabad and Jhansie Circle of Superintendence in the North- Western Provinces during the year 1870-71.
1.
Circle.
ALLAHABAD AND JHANSIE DIVISIONS.
2.
Name and Rank of Superintendent.
J. Richardson, M.B.
3.
Number of Na
tive Superin
tendents.
1869-70.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
9
1870-71.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
9
4.
Number of Vac-
cinators.
1869-70.
1
...
1
1
...
...
1
2
2
...
...
...
1
1
1
...
...
...
77
1870-71.
1
3
3
3
1
2
3
4
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
97
5.
Total number of
persons vacci
nated.
1869-70.
465
61,502
1870-71.
971
1,012
464
739
499
517
1,451
2,913
668
87
158
150
199
167
474
79
337
242
64,804
6.
Collectorate, Political Agency, and
Native State in which vacci
nation were performed during
the year.
Native States,
Bundel-
khund.
7.
Population of area included in last
column.
1,500,000
8.
Name of portion
of district or
of town.
Nowgong, ...
Orcha, ...
Duttea, ...
Sumther, ...
Umra, ...
Kadowra, ...
Punna, ...
Churkehree, ...
Chaturpore,
...
Bejawur, ...
Sareela, ...
Kothee Dharown-
da,
...
Allypore, ...
Garoulee and Low-
gasee, &c., ...
Jugnee and Bhut,
&c., ...
Puldio and Tra-
wun, &c., ...
Gowrehaur, ...
Toree
Futteh-
pore, ...
Total,
9.
PRIMARY VACCINATION.
A.
Sex.
Male.
475
345
205
309
267
252
647
1,228
370
55
80
45
117
83
221
34
115
115
32,071
Female.
496
667
259
430
232
265
804
1,685
298
32
78
105
82
84
253
45
222
127
32,410
B.
Caste.
Christian.
39
...
...
3
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
610
Hindoo.
762
975
445
614
429
419
1,161
2,750
621
41
77
110
188
156
453
77
287
240
54,350
Mussulman.
170
37
19
122
70
98
290
163
47
46
81
40
11
11
21
2
50
2
9,521
C.
Age.
Under 1 year.
297
272
32
177
84
94
534
496
196
14
67
55
24
90
23
8
137
32
16,163
Above 1 year.
674
740
432
562
415
423
917
2,417
472
73
91
95
175
77
451
71
200
210
48,318
Result.
Successful.
665
687
265
400
407
367
1,050
2,093
335
52
110
75
102
100
313
27
195
167
42,655
Unsuccessful, in
cluding those
doubtful.
212
198
90
175
54
107
266
637
231
21
29
40
55
67
132
33
75
66
14,245
Unknown.
94
127
109
164
38
43
135
183
102
14
19
35
42
...
29
19
67
9
7,581
D.
10.
Re-Vaccination.
A.
B. C. D.
Result.
Total.
971
1,012
464
739
499
517
1,451
2,913
668
87
158
150
199
167
474
79
337
242
64,481
Successful.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
199
Unsuccessful.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
78
Unknown.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
46
Total.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
323
11.
Percentage of suc-
cessful cases, ex-
cluding those un-
known from the
total.
In primary vac
cination.
75.8
77.6
74.6
69.5
88.2
77.4
79.7
76.6
59.1
71.2
79.1
65.2
64.9
59.8
70.3
45.0
72.2
71.7
74.9
In secondary vac
cination.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
71.8
12.
Average number of persons vacci
nated by each vaccinator.
337¾
154⅔
246⅓
258½
483⅔
728¼
334
671
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A.—VACCINE DEPARTMENT (5TH CIRCLE).
Statement No. I.—Showing particulars of Vaccination in each Circle of Superintendence in the North-Western Provinces during the year 1870-71.
1.
Circle.
AJMERE AND
MHAIRWARA
CIRCLE.
2.
Name and Rank of Superintendent.
T. Murray, M.D., Civil Surgeon.
3.
Number of Na-
tive Superin-
tendents.
1869-70.
1
36
1870-71.
1
37
4.
Number
of Vac-
cinators.
1869-70.
7
260
1870-71.
7
284
5.
Total number of
persons vacci-
nated.
1869-70.
8,532
299,357
1870-71.
8,721
311,610
6.
Collectorate, Political Agency, or
Native States in which the vac-
cinations were performed during
the year.
Ajmere and Mhairwara District.
7.
Population of area included in last
column.
426.268
8.
Name of portion of District or of
Town.
Ajmere, ...
Peesangan, ...
Nyanuggur,
Ramsur, ...
Municipal
Ajmere, ...
Do, Nyanug-
gur, ...
Local, Mus-
sudah, ...
Total,Ajmere
Circle, ...
Grand Total,
N.-W.P.,...
9.
PRIMARY VACCINATION.
A.
Sex.
Male.
767
491
478
754
972
575
644
4,681
154,861
Female.
711
532
356
692
901
395
430
4,017
151,290
B.
Caste.
Christian.
1
...
...
...
10
43
...
54
1,649
Hindoo.
918
992
601
1,440
1,598
481
921
6,951
252,236
Mussulman.
559
31
233
6
265
446
153
1,693
52,266
C.
Age.
Under 1 year.
575
240
292
801
917
123
312
3,260
91,994
Above 1 year.
903
783
542
645
956
847
762
5,438
214,157
Result.
Successful.
396
716
682
1,226
1,555
739
679
5,993
242,614
Unsuccessful, in-
cluding those of
doubtful.
348
175 65
207
215
155
289
1,454
40,216
Unknown.
734
132 87
13
103
76
106
1,251
23,321
D.
Total.
1,478
1,023 834
1,446
1,873
970
1,074
8,698
306,151
10.
RE-VACCINATION.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Result.
Successful.
...
...
...
...
11
...
2
13
2,248
U nsuccessful.
...
...
...
...
9
...
1
10
2,285
Unknown.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
926
Total.
...
...
...
...
20
...
3
23
5,459
11.
Percentage of suc-
cessful cases, ex-
cluding those un-
known.
In primary vac-
cination.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
80.47
85.7
In secondary vac-
cination.
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
56.52
49.5
12.
Average number of persons vac-
cinated by each vaccinator.
...
... ...
...
...
...
...
124,585
1,097
W. WATSON, M.B.,
Offg. Superintendent-General of Vaccination, N.-W. P.
ORDERS OF GOVERNMENT.
No. 4240½A. OF 1871.
FROM
C. A. ELLIOTT, ESQ.,
Offg. Secretary to Govt., N.-W. Provinces,
To
W. WATSON, ESQ., M.B.,
Offg. Supdt.-Genl. of Vaccination, N.-W. Provinces.
DATED NYNEE TAL, THE 23RD SEPTEMBER, 1871.
SIR,
GENERAL DEPARTMENT
(SANITATION).
I HAVE received and laid before the Lieutenant-Governor the
Annual Report and Returns of Vaccination in the North-Western Pro-
vinces for the season of 1870-71, submitted with your letter No. 62,
dated 8th May last, and am directed in reply to communicate the follow-
ing remarks and orders.
2. The results of the season's operations may be thus shown :—
Circle.
Kumaon and Gurh-
wal.
Rohilkhund, ...
Agra and Meerut, ...
Allahabad
and
Jhansie.
Benares,
Ajmere,
...
Total,
1870-71.
Population.
634,532
5,166,071
9,262,911
05,519,336
9,030,736
426,268
30,039,854
Number of
vaccina-
tors.
13
43
89
t97
35
7
284
Number of
cases.
28,537
78,040
87,836
†64,804
48,672
8,721
311,610
Success-
ful.
23,903
63,872
72,239
†42.854
36,488
6,006
244,862
Percentage
to popula-
tion.
37
1.2
0.77
*0.64
0.4
1.4
0.79
1869-70.
Success-
ful.
21,334
67,290
76,467
37,298
28,745
6,164
237,298
Percent-
age to
popula-
tion.
3.36
1.11
0.82
0.67
0.32
1.45
0.79
1869-70, ... ...
1870-71, ... ...
84.7
85.7
There is an increase of 7,564 successful cases as compared with last year,
and the number of operations is larger than has been recorded in any
year except 1868, when the great small-pox epidemic caused very gene-
ral recourse to be had to the prophylactic. There is also an improve-
ment of 1.0 per cent. in the proportion of successful cases to the total
number of vaccinations performed, deducting
the cases (19,429) the result of which is un-
known. On the other hand, there were 24
more vaccinators entertained during this year than last, making 284 in all,
* Excluding Native States.
† Including Native States.
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7. Considerable variations are also observed in the average number
of operations performed by each vaccinator in the different circles. In Ro-
hilkhund this was 1,801, in Agra and Meerut 986, in Allahabad 671,
and in Benares 976.
Thus in Rohilkhund each man did twice as much
work as in the Meerut or Benares Circle, and nearly three times as much
work as in Allahabad. Some attempt is made in the report to account
for this, but it is not very satisfactory. The explanation given is simply
that the character of the people varies in different districts. I am to re-
quest that the subject may be more thoroughly investigated next year.
8. The average cost of each successful operation has been 5 annas
3½ pies, being 3½ pies more than last year. The greater part of this con-
sists, as you remark, in the pay of the supervising establishment, the
maintenance of which is part of the North-Western Provinces system.
His Honor is satisfied that this Department is managed with due regard
economy.
9. His Honor observes with much gratification the record of the ser-
vices rendered by the Kumaon Depôt in the supply of vaccine virus to
Medical Officers in other provinces. Fresh virus from the cold regions
of the Himalayas is shown by you to be more efficient than that imported
from Europe : and in these hills the North-Western Provinces possess
an inexhaustible storehouse of the prophylactic, which, as facility of
communication increases, will doubtless prove of the greatest benefit to
the whole empire.
10. The system of inspection described by you in the 9th para, of the
report involves considerable personal exertion and labour, but the result in
ascertaining the extent of actual success, and more especially in keeping
the vaccinators on the alert, well repays the labour and trouble. You
have shown clearly how necessary it is that the work done by the vac-
cinators should be constantly and vigilantly supervised by European In-
spectors or trustworthy Native gentlemen. The reports of Dr. Milne in
in the Benares Circle and Dr. Richardson in Allahabad are evidence to
how great an extent returns are liable to be falsified by ignorant or
fraudulent subordinates. This is one great difficulty in the way of ascer-
taining the progress of vaccination in this country.
11. His Honor observes with pleasure the interest taken by several
Magistrates in vaccination in their districts. Were these officers and
their subordinates while on their tours occasionally to devote a few
hours to inspecting the work of the vaccinators in the way now practised
by the Superintendents of Circles, the gain to the Department would be
great. Civil Surgeons might also, without inconvenience to themselves,
inspect from time to time the work done by vaccinators in municipali-
ties and in the vicinity of the sudder station of the district.
12. The experiments made with animal vaccination during the
year have not tended to any very hopeful or decisive result. They should,
however, be proscuted as opportunity offers ; and His Honor will await
with interest the result of those which you propose to make with Dr.
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Milne's assistance at Almorah during the current autumn. I am, how-
ever, to observe that all such experiments should be conducted with the
utmost caution with reference to the prejudices of the people ; any
serious offence in this respect might be followed by lamentable effects
in alienating the people from the use of the lymph.
13. With respect to the use of ivory points in lieu of arm-to-arm
vaccination, I am to say that the Lieutenant Governor agrees with you
in considering that it will be desirable still to continue the former prac-
tice, even though it be generally less effective than the latter, in cases
where the prejudices of the people demand it. The establishment must
use their discretion carefully in this respect. Everything should be stu-
diously avoided that would render the people less favourable to vaccina-
tion, or offend their ideas and feelings in respect of it.
14. The Lieutenant-Governor has in a separate communication
approved of the suggestion made in your 7th para., that the whole of the
Rs. 500 entered for inoculators in the budget for the current year should
be allotted to the Benares Circle. His Honor hopes that much good will
result from the experiment, which should be prosecuted wherever there is
fair opportunity for doing so.
15. The addition of two vaccinators to the establishment of the
Kumaon Circle, as recommended in your 8th para., is also sanctioned,
provided that the cost can be met out of your budget allotment for
1870-71. But with reference to this proposal and that noticed in the pro-
ceeding para., I am to observe that such matters should have been sub-
mitted separately for the orders of Government, and not embodied in the
annual report.
16. The assistance given to vaccination in the Bundelkhund States
attached to the Allahabad and Jhansie Circles is most gratifying, and
the large number of additional vaccinators entertained by these States
during the season under report forms one of its most favourable features.
His Honor will have great pleasure in conveying his acknowledgments
to Dr. Stratton for the aid given by him in this respect. The benefit
must be great, not only to the States themselves, but indirectly to our
own districts, in reducing the chances of infection spreading to them.
Colonel Daly will also be requested to convey the thanks of the Lieu-
tenant-Governor to the Rajah of Teekumgurh for the hearty support
given by him to the cause of vaccination.
17. His Honor agrees with Dr. Richardson that it is extremely de-
sirable that a Native Superintendent should be entertained specially for the
supervision of vaccination in the Native States of Bundelkhund, and this
will be suggested to Dr. Stratton. It is impossible for one man efficiently
to supervise the operations of 43 vaccinators scattered over a wide ex-
tent of difficult country, both British and Native. At the same time, the
value, and indeed the absolute necessity, of close supervision is amply
shown by the facts stated in your report and those of your Superinten-
dents.
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The best proof of this is the increasing number of vaccinators entertained
from local and private funds and by municipalities; and His Honor
thinks that in the results of the year's operations there is ample encour-
agement to redoubled exertion for the future.
23. The issue of orders on your report has been delayed for the
consideration of the proposals made by the Sanitary Commissioner with
the Government of India for the localization of vaccine operations
within limited areas. His Honor's opinion on these proposals has been
separately communicated to you ; and it will be sufficient here to say
that the subject was very thoroughly discussed, and that the advantages
upon the whole of the existing system appeared to be so decided that the
project was put aside.
I have the honour to be,
SIR,
Your most obedient Servant,
C. A. ELLIOTT,
Offg. Secy. to Govt., N.-W. Provinces.
NORTH-WESTEM PROVINCES.
RETURNS OF VACCINATION
FOR THE
SEASON OF 1871-72.
BY SURGEON-MAJOR F. PEARSON,
Offg. Supdt.-General of Vaccination, North-Western Provinces
ALLAHABAD:
PRINTED AT TEH NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCES. GOVERNMENT
PRESS.
1872.
NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCES.
RETURNS OF VACCINATION
FOR THE
SEASON OF 1871-72.
BY SURGEON-MAJOR F. PEARSON,
Offg. Supdt.-General of Vaccination, North-Western Provinces.
ALLAHABAD:
PRINTED AT THE NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCES, GOVERNMENT PRESS.
1872.
NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCES.
RETURNS OF VACCINATION
For the Season of 1871-72.
No. 252 OF 1872.
FROM
SURGEON-MAJOR F. PEARSON,
Supdt.-General of Vaccination, N.-W. Provinces,
To
C, A. ELLIOTT, ESQUIRE,
Secretary to Government, N.-W. Provinces,
DATED ALMORAH, THE 29TH APRIL, 1872.
SIR,
I HAVE the honour to submit, for the information of His Honor the Lieutenant¬
Governor, the Returns of Vaccination for the North-Western Provinces, for the year
1871-72.
2. General Remarks.—These returns show a grand total vaccinated of 321,742,
being an increase of 10,132 over that of the previous year, notwithstanding there having
been 14 vaccinators less, as the work done by the local establishments in the Bundel¬
khund States has been this year excluded.
The average percentage of success is 88.26, being nearly 3 per cent. higher than
that of the previous season.
The average number of persons vaccinated by each vaccinator per mensem (during
the vaccine working season) is 238.2, as compared with 219.4 of the previous year.
The average cost per successful case has been exactly five annas. Both the number
vaccinated and the percentage of success will reach a yet higher figure as the people
evince a greater readiness to accept vaccination, and the establishments become more
skilled in their art. Next year I intend adding a column for the low castes, so that it
will be possible then to determine what way vaccination is making amongst higher classes,
which I am unable to do now, when they are all included under the one head "Hindoos."
The number of re-vaccinations are but small; as years go on, the amount should steadily
increase, for it is now an established fact that re-vaccination is desirable at the period
of life, when the constitution has undergone the change from childhood into manhood,
with a view to ascertaining if full protection is still enjoyed.
I give a summary below, which will show at a glance the main facts of the two
past season's operations:
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SUMMARY.
1
Season.
1870-71, ...
1871-72, ...
2
No. of Native Superintendents.
37
36
3
No. of Vaccinators.
284
270
4
Total No. of persons vaccinated.
311,610
321,742
5
Sex.
Male.
154,861
159,751
Female.
151,290
159,417
Caste.
Christian.
1,649
1,541
Hindoo.
252,236
267,678
Mussalman.
52,266
49,949
Age.
Under one year.
91,994
108,263
Above one year.
214,157
210,905
Primary Vaccination Result.
Successful.
242,614
261,914
Unsuccessful and Doubtful.
40,216
34,527
Unknown.
23,324
22,727
Total.
306,151
319,168
6
Secondary Vaccination Result.
Successful.
2,248
1,682
Uns uc c e s
s
f
ul and doubt f ul .
2,285
607
Un k n o wn .
926
285
Tot al .
5,459
2,574
7
Primary per cent. of success.
85.7
88.26
8
Secondary percentage of success.
49.5
73.48
9
Average No. of persons vaccinated by each
Vaccinator per mensem.
219.4
238.2
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Sufficiently.
Boolundshuhur.
Anoopshuhur.
Khooja.
Coel.
Hattrass.
Secundra Rao.
Hurdwagunj.
Atrowlee.
Mussoorie.
Dehra.
Kajpore.
Pillibheet.
Moradabad.
Chundowsee.
Dhunourah.
Amroha.
Shahjehanpore.
Bijnour.
Nugeena.
Nujeebabad.
Dhampoor,
Dhandpoor.
Budaon.
Bilsee.
Oojhanee.
Ferozabad.
Etawah.
Mynpoory.
Khasgunj.
Etah and Soron.
Brindabun.
Kosee.
Julleysur.
Allahabad.
Banda.
Jounpore.
Oorai.
Lullutpore.
Insufficiently.
Saharunpore.
Bareilly.
Sumbhul.
Agra.
Furruckabad.
Muttra.
Cawnpore.
Benares.
Mirzapore.
Azimgurh.
Ghazeepore.
Goruckpore.
Not at all.
Meerut.
Ghazeeabad.
Barote.
Baghput.
Shahdera.
Deobund.
Hurdwar.
Beesulpore.
Futtehpore Sikri.
Sirsa.
Bharutgunj.
Chunar.
Bulliah.
Jhansie.
Mowraneepore.
Calpee.
Koonah.
Almora.
Nynee Tal.
As soon as I receive replies from those Municipalities who have made insufficient
or no provision for their own vaccination, I will communicate the results to His
Honor. It is possible that some Municipalities may have their own private arrange-
ments, with reference to vaccination, unknown to me (in fact, I believe Meerut has
some such scheme of its own), but I am so strongly impressed with the conviction
that vaccination should be a separate State Department, conducted only by trained and
skilled men, servants of, and alone responsible to, the Government for their acts, that
I trust His Honor will deprecate any such private arrangement, and direct that the
Vaccinators so engaged should be brought under the sole control of the Vaccine
Department during the vaccine season.
Nothing can conduce so much to the spread of vaccination as the active co-opera-
tion of Magistrates, Civil Surgeons and members of Municipalities in persuading
the people to accept the Vaccinator's services, searchingly looking into the Vaccina¬
tor's work, and reporting the results of their investigations to the Superintendent
of the Circle (where any communication is desirable) ; but beyond this their control
is not expedient, for authority cannot be divided.
The system now in vogue has proved itself fully adapted to meet the requirements
of the people, and needs only to be extended to its full limits to answer every expec-
tation. I trust that no amateur theories, so much the fashion of the time, will be
allowed to uproot the present system, which is now beginning to bear the fruit, the
labour of so many years.
Para. 9. Municipal Vaccinators and Apprentices. —It having been ruled by His Honor
the Lieutenant-Governor that the services of Municipal Vaccinators should be utilised
during the non-vaccine season, (instead of remaining at their homes on half pay, as is
now the case with the Government Vaccine Establishment) orders have been issued
placing them at the disposal of the Municipalites from the 15th April to the 15th October
for any duties that they may think proper to assign them. This new arrangement
has necessitated a prospective remodelling of the Vaccine Department,