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17.    Ranchee Circle.—In this circle 7,904 persons were vaccinated with
successful results in 58.42 per cent. of cases only. The account given by
Dr. Hoskins of his operations, and of the opposition shown to him by both
landholders and ryots, leads the Lieutenant-Governor to doubt whether the
conduct of affairs was judiciously managed. If so much suspicion was raised
by Dr. Hoskins' efforts to extend his work, it would have been wise had he
confined himself entirely to the duty of superintending results, and left the Native
Superintendents to conciliate the people in the first instance. The conduct of some
of those officers and their parties appears to have been anything but satisfac-
tory. The Commissioner will be requested to exercise a close supervision over
the vaccine operations in future, and to issue instructions to District Officers
to assist and instruct the working parties as much as possible.

18.    Sonthal Pergunnahs.—If the return can be trusted, Baboo Gopal
Chunder Dey's operations were very successful. 3,931 operations having been
performed in a few days with five vaccinators, and success obtained in 89.57
per cent. of cases. This seems to indicate the value of native superintendence
as contended for by Dr. Charles.

19.    Paragraphs 17 to 26 of Inspector-General of Hospitals' Report.—
Proposals for the re-constitution of vaccine circles must be separately submitted
for orders, with a definite statement of the establishment required.

20.    The Inspector-General should draw the attention of the officers
concerned, to the extreme and unnecessary diffuseness of all the vaccination
reports submitted this year to Government; especially those of the Presidency
and Metropolitan Circles. A clear concise narrative of the year's administra-
tion might have been given in at most one-fourth of the space. The import-
ance of economising the time of Government, as well as of diminishing the cost
of printing, should be kept before the mind of every officer who is called upon
to submit annual reports.

Ordered, that. a copy of the Resolution be forwarded to the Inspector-General
of Hospitals, Indian Medical Department, for information and guidance.

Also that an extract (paragraph 5) be forwarded to the Commissioner of
Police, for information and guidance.

Further, that copies be forwarded to all Commissioners, (except Chota
Nagpore,) with special reference to paragraph 15, and to the Commissioner of
Chota Nagpore with reference to paragraphs 15 and 17.

                                               By Order of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal,

                                                                      A. EDEN,

                                                         Secretary to the Govt. of Bengal.

                                         No. 76.
COPY forwarded to the Inspector-General of Hospitals, Indian Medical
Department.

                                         No. 77.
EXTRACT, paragraph 5, forwarded to the Commissioner of Police, Calcutta.

                                         No. 78.
COPY forwarded to all Commissioners, (except Chota Nagpore,) with
special reference to paragraph 15.

                                         No. 79.
COPY forwarded to the Commissioner of Chota Nagpore, with reference to-
paragraphs 15 and 17.

By Order of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal,