No. 2657.

FROM

            THE OFFG. SECY. TO THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER,

OUDH.

To

            THE SUPERINTENDENT OF VACCINATION,

OUDH.

                                    Dated Lucknow, the 29th May 1873.
SIR,

GENL. DEPT.

I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 1305,
dated 21st instant, modifying the remark made in the 1st para. of your
Vaccination Report for 1872-73, regarding the procedure said to have
been adopted by District Officers during the preceding year to compel
persons to be vaccinated.

2.     In reply, I am directed to observe that you had hardly returned
to your post from furlough before you requested that the system which
had been introduced at the instance of your locum tenens might be discon-
tinued, and your request was complied with.

3.     During the year, under review, vaccine operations diminished by
one half; and you ascribed this to the fact that, in the previous year,
district officers acted tyrannically and illegally by arming vaccinators with
parwánáhs ; and, in some cases, giving them a revenue peon to compel the
people to subject their children to vaccination.

4.     On being called on to name the officer or officers who had done
this thing, you say that it may be presumed that this was the course of
procedure.

5.    The Chief Commissioner altogether objects to this presumption
on your part that your brother officers had acted in the way you describe,
in order to account for the short comings apparent in the Department
under your control.

6.     Moreover, as a matter of fact, Sir George Couper, can see little
difference between the parwánáh which you " presume" the Vaccinator was
armed with during the previous year; and the certificate with which you
yourself armed your Vaccinators. A village Head-man in all probability
would be unable to discriminate between the two.

7.     The Chief Commissioner considers that the falling off in the
numbers vaccinated during the past year demonstrates that the measures
adopted during the previous year were successful as far as mere numbers
were concerned. The objection to them was that the Vaccinators could
not remain long enough in one spot to watch the result of their operation