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for some time past, but considerable difficulty was found in obtaining a proper
site. A suitable piece of land has at last been selected at the north base of
Senchal. Steps are being taken to provide the necessary buildings, and it is
hoped that the depôt will be got into working order during the current year.

10. In discussing the attitude of the people towards vaccination, the
Sanitary Commissioner writes as if they had only now discovered that the
operation is not compulsory in rural areas. He says that many members of the
higher and wealthier Hindu castes habitually evade vaccination, and that every-
where there is difficulty in realising the vaccinator's fees. As a remedy for the
former difficulty, Dr. Gregg proposes to extend the compulsory clauses of the
Vaccination Act to rural areas ; while he suggests that the latter might be got
over by making a vaccinator's fees recoverable through the village panchayat like
the chowkidari tax. Neither suggestion seems to the Lieutenant-Governor to be
practicable nor desirable. The whole question of the organisation of the
Vaccination Department is now under consideration, and Sir Charles Elliott
would rather remodel it on a district or divisional basis, so as to extend the
duties of the Civil Surgeon, than resort to compulsory provisions without adequate
machinery to enforce them.

                                  By order of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal,

                                                                                        H. H. RISLEY,

                                                                        Offg. Secretary to the Government of Bengal,

                                                No. 1824.

COPY of the Resolution, with a copy of the notes, submitted to the Govern-
ment of India, Home Department, for information.

                                          Circular No. 30.

COPY of the Resolution, with a copy of the notes, forwarded to all
Commissioners of Divisions for information.

                                                No. 1825.

COPY of the Resolution forwarded to the Sanitary Commissioner, Bengal,
for information.

                                                No. 1826.

COPY of the Resolution and of the notes forwarded to the Inspector-
General of Civil Hospitals, Bengal, for information.

                                                By order of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal,

                                                                          J. WINDSOR,

                                                      Offg. Under-Secretary to the Govt. of Bengal.

      CALCUTTA,

The 20th August 1891.

C. E. G.—Reg. No. 3204C—1,147—21-8-91.