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operation; they made no difficulty about arm to arm vaccination, and
took children quite willingly from one village to another, which is very
rarely permitted. The children of each of the villages I inspected were
brought to an appointed spot with a readiness I had not observed before,
and, as the names were called from the village Roll, I noticed an unusual
eagerness to have each child examined, and to hear my opinion as to
its being protected against small-pox.

40.    The vaccinator at Pootea, whose work I inspected on the 28th
January, and who had been but a short time established there, had at-
tained very gratifying results also. Here too the people encouraged
arm to arm vaccination, and in consequence almost every case I saw
was successful.

41.    Next day I inspected, in villages some six miles north of
Rampore Bauleah, the operations of the vaccinator attached to the
Charghat Thannah. He had endeavoured to get a footing in the villages
close by the Thannah at first, but, as the people refused his services, he
had asked permission to commence work in the villages where I found
him, and where he had been successful last year, and thence worked
towards the Thannah which was not very distant; he was doing extremely
well.

42.    Passing through Rampore Bauleah, I marched towards God-
agaree where I expected to find the fifth vaccinator of the district; but,
on reaching Burgachee, on the 2nd February, I learned from the people,
that the vaccinator who had worked there and had made good progress
last year, had, shortly after commencing operations this season, been
taken ill, and had returned to Bauleah for treatment. The people told
me that they were glad to have a vaccinator among them; on returning
to Bauleah I went to see the vaccinator in question: I found him so ill
as to be unfit for work, and granted him a short leave, on the expiry of
which he resumed operations, and worked well until the close of the
season.

43.    Though the vaccinators in Rajshahye were late in com-
mencing operations, they were more successful in point of numbers as
they were last year, than the men in any other district; the average
work being 280 in January, 398 in February, and 353 in March, for each
vaccinator. Towards the close of the season, I received from them some
hundreds of well formed crusts. It should be observed, that none of the.
Rajshahye vaccinators were previously practisers of inoculation, the