Report on Vaccination in Oudh during the
                              season 1872-73.

Following the order of the prescribed Tabular Statements appended
I proceed to remark on.

                                                No. I.

Amount of work done.
Mode of procedure
1871-72.

This statement, column 5, shows that, with a staff of Vaccinators one
less, the number of vaccinations fell off from 37,255 to 19,170. The only
explanation I can give of this is that in the previous season the number
of operations was either exaggerated or many of them were done under
compulsion, and there is ground for suspicion that the decrease may be
in part due to both causes. The system was as follows in 1871-72. Three
Vaccinators were sent to each district, one of whom marched about with
the Settlement Officer's camp and the other with that of the Deputy
Commissioner. In neither case could the peripatetic Vaccinator ascertain
the result of his work properly, nor could the Native Superintendent,
whose business it is to do so, check the quantity recorded. Under these
circumstances of course the Vaccinator would take the most favorable
view he could imagine possible in recording his work. Besides " parwá-
náhs" were granted to Vaccinators by the District Officers, by whom they
were also commended through Tahsíldárs and other people of local influ-
ence to the Head men of villages, and the usual procedure may be presumed
to have been as follows. The Vaccinator, armed with his " parwánáh" and
frequently having a revenue peon to support him, would go to the Head-
man of a village and present his credentials ; whereupon the Head-man
would, if a loyal subject, order out all the children especially those of the
Pasís, on whom, amid some degree of indignation on the part of the mo-
thers, the operation would be duly performed. There is no doubt that a
great deal can be done among some classes of the people who are accustom-
ed to submit to do what they are ordered, without much resistance or mur-
mur ; and some think that the good end in the case of vaccination amply
justifies this method. I would myself incline to this opinion, if the whole
of the people could be protected in this way, but as that is impossible with
the means at present or likely to be at our disposal, I take a different
view of the expediency of that mode of procedure.

Vaccination.

Object of present system.

Vaccination, as at present conducted, is, in my view, merely a step
towards one of two alternatives eventually. It aims either at educating
the people to take to it voluntarily, as a thing the value of which they
will learn to appreciate, or at so familiarising them with it, whether the
majority like it or not, as to prepare the way for general legislation on the
subject, as soon as that may be expedient. Now of these two objects the
first would be the best, if possible; and an attempt to accomplish it
would, should it fail, in no way interfere with the second. Therefore, the
work done should be entirely voluntary, and not only without force but, if