( 12 )
Landoura
Suc-
cessful
, 361
Unsuc-
cessful
34
Un-
known.
36
Total,
431.
While at Landoura in the Roorkee Tehseel I had a good opportunity of seeing the bene-
fits of a good word on behalf of vaccination, even when spoken by a village school-mas-
ter. This man named Pundit Ramchunder Dass, to set the example, had himself vacci-
nated, and, though it was unsuccessful from previous small-pox, yet his example had so
much influence, that many of the parents of the school children permitted them to be
operated upon, and the operations this season have been very numerous in this town.
I am also indebted to Rao Sahib Sing of Landoura for his kind assistance in the cause
of vaccination, and I expect much good to result from the extensive operations noted
in the margin, not only in Landoura itself, but in the
vicinity. Rajah Teekum Singh, on whom I had the
pleasure of calling at Moorsan, rendered a great ser-
vice to vaccination, by not only inpressing its benefits on his retainers, but gave a proof
of his continued belief in the prophylactic by having another of his own children vacci-
nated before them all. If this Rajah's and school-master's example were more exten-
sively followed, vaccination would soon become general, as it is a well known fact that
the illiterate portions of the population hold back for a lead, either from one who has the
credit of some knowledge, and is generally of good caste, like a school-master, or per-
sonal or hereditary influence like a Rajah, or head man of a village or villages. When
the putwaree's or lumberdar's child is vaccinated, the rest of the village soon follow,
but when the Vaccinator is sent to the Chumar mohullah, his operations must of necessity
be limited, as this class form but a small portion of the inhabitants in a village, even
of a considerable population. It is strange to see the readiness with which vaccination
is accepted in one village and the almost systematic opposition to it in another, per-
haps not half a mile off; but this opposition is explained in the case of villages composed
of female infant murderers, who, as I have said in para. 8 in my letter to Mr. Palmer,
object to vaccination on grounds which I would hesitate to record, did not the acknow-
ledged fact of their murderous practices leave little doubt, that they view female infant
life in a very different light to most other notions.
Municipal Vaccination.
1870-71. 1871-72.
Municipal.
Dehra, Rajpore, and Mussoorie,
Saharunpore,
...
Local.
Moozufïernuggur,
...
Shamlee, ...
...
...
Kyranah, ... ... ...
Kandlah, ... ... ...
Meeranpore,
...
...
Municipal.
Meerut,
...
...
...
Boolundshuhur,
...
...
Khoojah, ... ... ...
Anoopshuhur, .... ...
Allygurh, ... ... ...
Hathrass, ...
...
...
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
2
1
1
1
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
1
1
2
2
Atrowlee, ... ... ...
Hurdoagunj, ... ...
Secundra Rao, ... ...
Muttra, ... ... ...
Bindrabun, ... ...
Kosie, ... ... ...
Julleysur, ...
...
...
Agra, ... ... ...
Ferozabad,... ... ...
Kasgunj, ... ... ...
Etah and Sorun, ... ...
Mynpoorie, ... ...
Etawah, ... ... ...
Furruckabad, ... ...
Terru, ... ... ...
Total, ...
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
3
0
1
0
1
1
1
3
28
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
3
1
1
1
1
1
1
4
34
8. During the past season the staff of Municipal and Local Vaccicators has been
as per margin, and
for facility in re-
ference, that for
the previous year
is also given. The
two principal Vac¬
cinators of Meerut,
having been work-
ing independently
of this office, their
returns are there-
fore not included
among those now submited.
The additions to the staff of Municipal Vaccinators are the reappointment of the
4th Vaccinator for Terree, the appointments of one for Dehra, Rajpore, and Mussoorie,
from November, 1871, one for Etah and Soron from 15th December, 1871, and one
for Ferozabad from the 1st January, 1872. The four Vaccinators for the towns of
Shamlee, Kyranah, Kandlah, and Meeranpore in the Moozuffernugger District, enter-
tained from the 15th November, 1871, to 31st January, 1872, will be alluded to
hereafter as theirs is a special case. The Municipal Vaccinator for Dehra, Rajpore, and
Musssoorie receives his pay as follows, Rs. 40, from Dehra, Rs. 20, from Rajpore, and
Rs. 60, from Mussoorie, and works six months at Dehra and Rajpore, if the state of the
weather will admit of it, and six months at Mussoorie. The pay of the Municipal Vac-
cinators has been regularly remitted to this office, and the difficulties met with last year,
under this head have not been experienced during the season under report. The cir-
cumstances of the Vaccinators for the four towns in the Moozuffernuggur District noted