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increase to the establishment be granted, it would not, in my opinion, be
wise to take up the as-yet unoccupied districts of Maldah and Pubna.
In fact, the- number of districts in which vaccine operations can be
successfully undertaken, must be determined by the number of Native
Superintendents, and I have but three at my disposal. A district as
large as Dinagepore or Rungpore is quite as much as one Native Super-
intendent can manage, if he is to be held responsible for the genuiness
of the work of the vaccinators under him. After placing a Native
Superintendent in charge of each of these districts, I had but one left
to supervise Rajshahye and Bogra, so that, if I had taken a few vaccin-
ators from any of the districts named, and placed them in Maldah and
Pubnah, I could not have provided for their supervision beyond my
own passing inspection, and this would have been quite inadequate.
The Darjeeling Terai and the Western Dooars were assigned to the
Deputy Superintendent. Sub-Assistant-Surgeon Nil-Moni Chowderee;
as he was new to the work, I did not wish to give him a larger tract of
country than he could easily manage, he is active and energetic, and
promises to be a very efficient officer.

7.    Considerable inconvenience and loss of time having been ex-
perienced last year in paying vaccinators directly—in more than one
instance, avaccinator having spent a fifth of his working time in going
to the sudder station to receive his salary and in returning to his post—
the sanction of the Inspector-General of Police was asked for and
obtained to my attaching each vaccinator, for the purpose of his receiv-
ing his salary only, to a Thannah. By this plan, the vaccinators' pay,
sent by me to the District Superintendent, is forwarded by him, together
with the pay of his own establishment, to such Thannahs as the vaccin-
ators may be stationed at, and the latter are paid without loss of time.
The adoption of this arrangement led to a re-distribution of the vaccin-
ators of each district at the commencement of the season, and no less
than seventeen of them were placed at stations where vaccination had
not been before practised.

8.    Some little delay was, in consequence, to be apprehended in
getting the vaccinators to work, but it proved very trifling, and at every
place selected, except one, they found immediate employment among the
people. It will not, of course, be understood, that the majority of the
population anywhere availed themselves of the vaccinator's services, or
that he ever got full work, but the numbers, compared with those of last
year, are far from unsatisfactory.