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Extension of vaccination.

18. The increase of operations in the 2nd Circle amounted to a total of 69,878,
and the rise in the number of successful primary
vaccinations was recorded chiefly in the districts of
Oudh. The rapid extension of vaccination in the Bara Banki district was due solely
to the zeal and activity shown by Colonel Grigg, the Deputy Commissioner. The
comparatively high standard of operations yearly reached in the Hardoi district, and
the successful results of the year's operations in the district of Sitapur, may be safely
ascribed to Colonel Horsford's energy and initiation.

The necessity for the extension of vaccination is often brought home to the most
prejudiced native, and the Deputy Sanitary Commissioner of the 2nd Circle relates
how two leading mahajans of Mullawan in Hardoi and Khairabad in Sitapur allowed
their daughters to be vaccinated the season before last and concealed their sons. The
sons died of small pox last year, while the daughters who had been vaccinated escaped.
Both mahájans had every child of their families and attendants vaccinated this season.

Inoculation of small-pox in the east-
ern districts.

19. The evidence as to the extent and prevalence of inoculation in the districts
bordering on Bengal is still scanty, but there is not
the slightest doubt that the practice still obtains to
a greater or less extent. Three inoculators at least from Lower Bengal endeavoured to
practise their calling at the beginning of last season in the district of Jaunpur. The
local authorities should be alive to the necessity of prohibiting inoculation in outlying
tahsíls, and the subordinate officials might be held responsible for supplying accurate
information regarding the men who find sufficient inducement and encouragement to
undertake long and expensive journeys from another province to perpetuate a loath-
some disease. The extension of the Vaccination Act to such tahsíls, and townships,
where inoculation still obtains is advisable.

Conduct of subordinates.

20. The Deputy Superintendents of Vaccination, Meerut, Oudh, Rohilkhand, and

Allahabad have discharged their duties with intelli-
gence, and the native Superintendents with few
exceptions have worked with commendable zeal. The vaccination staff have on the
whole worked well, and the punishment list was not a very large one.

Marked progress in vaccination.

21. The general results of the season's operations are very satisfactory. Progress
has been maintained, and the results compare favour-
ably with those of the previous year. The extension
of operations, by 32 per cent. in two seasons, indicates the zeal and energy which
has characterized, and been instilled by the Government into, all classes concerned in
vaccination in Oudh and the North-Western Provinces generally.

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