THE GOVT. OF BENGAL PROPER.          5

Government of India in February 1829, the emoluments of the Civil
Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons at the 30 vaccine stations, previously in
operation, were reduced from Rs. 260 a month, which embraced the whole
cost of he establishment, to Rs. 160, and of these six only were to be kept
up, viz. Dacca, Moorshedabad, Patna, Benares, Bareilly and Subathoo. The
reason assigned for this change was, that the success in vaccination, as
shown by the returns, had in no degree corresponded with the expense
incurred. This curtailment of establishments led to a great falling-off in
the numbers of vaccination, as shown by the returns. The Medical Board
took the matter up, and in April 1834 the sanction of the Board of
Directors was obtained to the granting of a vaccine allowance, Rs. 20
a month, to Civil Surgeons acting as Superintendents of Vaccination
of their stations. This became a general allowance at all stations. The
vaccine institutions at the above six large stations were maintained.
In the course of a few years these were abolished also.

The Bombay
system intro-
duced into the
North-West Pro-
vinces A new
era of vaccina-
tion,

9. No material improvements were put in practice until the Go-
vernment of India, in 1854, introduced the Bombay system into the
North-Western Provinces. Hence a new era in vaccination in the
Bengal Presidency was inaugurated. Dr. Pearson had, it would seem,
been carrying on vaccination under his own eye and special supervision
for some time previously to the introduction into the North-Western
Provinces, by Government order, of a system similar to the Bombay
one.

Recapitula-
tion.

History of Vac-
cination more in
detail, giving the
salient points in
order of date and
sequence.

10. To recapitulate, in Bengal, from the report of the Superin-
tendent General of Vaccination at Calcutta published in 1831, it
appears that there were up to the year 1828, 30 vaccine stations within
the Bengal Presidency at a monthly cost of Rs. 260 each. By the
resolution of Government, of March 1830, these stations were reduced
to six, viz., at Dacca, Moorshedabad, Patna, Benares, Bareilly and
Subathoo, with a diminished allowance of Rs. 160 a month, upon the
ground of the exhibited inadequacy of the issues, and the absence
of anything like really substantially good results following upon
the great outlay made by the State; to which the like testimony
was borne by the Medical Board. The Board seems at this time to
have advocated the committing of vaccination, and its subsequent
management, to a European Medical Officer only, to the exclusion of
native assistance; but the very important point of European minute
management and supervision was not strenuously and persistently
adhered to. The contraction of the sphere of vaccine operations and