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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,