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asking him to accompany me to the village. A morning was fixed, and two children with fresh
vesicles sent to the village. On our arrival there, the inhabitants were collected at the Chowdry,
and were addressed by the karbarree and my karkoon on the benefits and nature of vacci-
nation, and within half an hour some forty children were brought forward to be vaccinated, a
result which I much doubt would have been produced, but for my being on the spot ; indeed
during the week I was at Koorundwar, owing to the stimulus it gave the native officials by
my directing the Chief's attention to the subject, nearly as many children were vaccinated in
that time as is usually done in that State in a couple of months.

Some time ago, acting upon a suggestion of His Excellency the Governor in the last Reso-
lution on this subject, I drew up a form of notice or hand bill, containing a simple statement
of facts descriptive of vaccination, such as might easily be understood by the uneducated mass
of the people. This form having been approved of by the Principal Inspector-General Medi-
cal Department, was forwarded by me in the early part of November last to the Oriental
Translator to Government, for the purpose of being translated into Murathee and Canarese,
but in consequence of the great delay in receiving these translations, I have not yet been able
to issue them.

                                          NORTHERN CIRCLE.

                        Superintendent.—Assistant Surgeon R. DICK.
                  Establishment.—Thirty-two Vaccinators (Government).
                                    Ten Vaccinators (Native Chiefs).

The number of operations recorded by the present establishment of 32 Government and 10
Native Chiefs vaccinators in 1863 as shown above, contrasts favourably with their work in
the previous year. During the year just terminated, vacancies and interruptions of work
from sickness have been less frequent and less prolonged than in the preceding one, while more
effectual assistance has been afforded by the village officials in consequence of the strict orders
issued by the Civil authorities, and at the same time several of the vaccinators have worked
with more zeal than formerly. The increase is most marked in the Kaira zilla, and there also
the returns are largest, vaccination being more appreciated than in other parts of the Division,
while more effectual assistance in the way of peons, &c., is afforded. If the same assistance
had been available in other zillas, more especially in Surat, I have no doubt that the exertions
of the vaccinators would have been rewarded with much greater success.