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saw some sixty successful cases on the date of my visit, the 18th. Some
of the people told me that they were glad to have a vaccinator among
them, and one man, who had lost two children by inoculated small-pox,
inveighed very bitterly against inoculators.

24.    On the 20th, I inspected at Pranuggur the work of the vacci-
nator attached to the Beergunge Thannah; he was working very fairly
with a good vesicle: I saw some ninety successful cases; he had had no
difficulty, assisted by the Native Superintendent, in commencing opera-
tions, and there was no general opposition manifested by the people.

25.    I went to Hubbra on the 27th December. The vaccinator
here was a newly-trained man who had been stationed at the place a
few days before my visit. He had made, after some solicitation, a few
vaccinations; but the people refused to submit to any more until they
should have seen the result of the first cases.

26.    It was much the same state of things at Gungarampore, which
place I visited on the 1st January. The vaccinator had been only a
few days there; but he had established a genuine vesicle, and the people
promised to accept vaccination as soon as they had satisfied themselves
that no ill-effects need be apprehended.

27.    I inspected the work at Nawabgunge on the 10th January.
The vaccinator, who had been placed there early in December, had failed
completely at first, and it was not until the Native Superintendent
joined him, that a beginning was made: only forty-three successful vaccina-
tions were reported in December. At the time of my visit, the first fears
of the people had been got over, and I inspected some successful work in
the villages near the Thannah, but the vaccinator was working slowly.

28.    As the season advanced, the vaccinators made, on the whole,
fair progress; but with one exception, none succeeded in making three
hundred successful vaccinations in a month, and the general average
was a little over two hundred; however, as in this district last year,
the average was below one hundred, a satisfactory advance has been
made. The native Superintendent, though from the first he suffered
severely from fever, attended closely to his duties during the season.

29.    From Nawabgunge I continued my march into the Bogra
district. The vaccinators had commenced work in November, with
lymph sent them by post. There were at first four vaccinators, posted
at the Thannahs—Sherepore, Alumdiggee, Gobindgunge, and Khetloll;
later in the season, a newly-trained man was appointed to Budulgachee.