No. 3797, dated Calcutta, the 5th December 1876.
From-J. CRAWFURD, Esq., Under Secretary to the Govt. of Bengal,
Judicial Department.
To-The Surgeon General, Indian Medical Department.
Singbhum.
Chumparun.
Manbhum.
Mozufferpur.
Hazaribagh.
Purneah.
Sonthal Pergunnahs.
Jalpaiguri.
Bhagalpur.
Gya.
Sarun.
Buxar (Sub-Division).
I AM directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 598,
dated the 27th July last, submitting with your remarks reports from
the Civil Surgeons of the districts
noted on the margin on the distri-
bution and causation of leprosy
and the prevalence of that disease
in those districts, together with an
abstract of these reports prepared by the Deputy Surgeon General,
Dinapore Circle. The papers will be forwarded for the information
of the Government of India in the Home Department.
2. Referring to paragraph 8 of your letter, I am to request that
you will be so good as to convey to Drs. Wilson and Macleod the thanks
of this Government for the attention which they have given to the
subject and the care with which their reports have been prepared.
At the same time I am to add that the Lieutenant-Governor cannot
but regret the apparent indifference which has been shewn by many
medical officers to the call which was made upon them for reports
regarding leprosy. The census returns of 1872 indicate that the
disease is lamentably prevalent in the districts of Burdwan, Bancoo-
rah, Beerbhum, Sonthal Pergunnahs, Moorshedabad, Rungpur and
Darjeeling, and it especially behoved the medical officers, to whom
the charge of these districts have been committed, to give their atten-
tion to the matter. Of all these officers Dr. Z. U. Ahmed is the only
one who has submitted a report at all, and even this report is practi-
cally of no value.
3. I am now to request that you will be so good as to issue
renewed instructions to all officers who have failed to submit the
reports required, shewing in detail what is expected of them, and that
you will also intimate to them that the Lieutenant-Governor expects
to receive from them well considered and careful reports by the end
of April next.
No. 3798.
COPY of the above letter, and of that to which it is a reply, with
its enclosures in original, submitted to the Secretary to the Govern-
ment of India in the Home Department for information with refer-
ence to Home Department Resolution No. 1-136, dated the 5th
March 1875.
No. 598, dated Fort William, the 27th July 1876.
From-J. F. BEATSON, Esq., M. D., Surgeon General, Indian Medical
Department.
To-The Officiating Secretary to the Government of Bengal, Judicial
Department.
I HAVE the honour to recall attention to your No. 1272* of the 30th of March
* Medical. 1875, inviting the co-operation of this Department in
giving effect to the instructions detailed in paragraph 8 of
Home Department Resolution No. 1-136 of the 5th idem.